Indigenous Blood Memory and Abstraction in the work of Anishinaabe Artist Rebecca Belmore
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore responds to globalizationthrough artistic methods that include longstanding Indigenous traditionsand conceptual frameworks. In this article I focus on the entwinedaesthetics of abstraction and blood memory in her works. Generally,cultural studies scholars have considered globalization through patternsof abstraction, or making-autonomous elements previously embedded ina specific context. These thinkers emphasize processes of innovation andchange as fundamental tenets of abstraction, culturally and aesthetically.Eschewing this framework, Belmore’s framings of abstraction centerIndigenous knowledge –what I am calling blood memory (MITHLO,2011; BENESIINAABANDAN, 2013; LINKLATER, 2013)—in orderto uncover the aesthetic foundations of modern abstraction in Indigenousthought. Abstraction has been a continuous and principal element ofIndigenous aesthetics in North America for many thousands of years(PHILLIPS and BERLO, 1998).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".