Native visual sovereignty : a reader on art and performance /
Native Visual Sovereignty positions performance and theater as origin points for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Alaska Native artists. The book identifies two foundational moments, the beginning of the Self-Determination Era sparked by the occ...
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Annandale-on-Hudson, New York : Taghkanic, New York : Regina, Saskatchewan : Santa Fe, New Mexico : Brooklyn, New York :
Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College ; Forge Project ; MacKenzie Art Gallery ; SITE SANTA FE ; Dancing Foxes Press ;
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Table of Contents:
- Credo for American Indian Theatre / Lloyd Kiva New
- Foreword / Candice Hopkins
- Prelude: why a reader? / Candice Hopkins
- Part 1. Setting the stage for self-determination. Editorial note / Candice Hopkins
- Oral history / G. Peter Jemison
- Sovereignty: a line in the sand / Jolene Rickard
- On occupation and firsts / John G. Hampton
- Indian theater and Native self-determination: an artistic experiment in process / Candice Hopkins
- Reading Nanook's smile: visual sovereignty, indigenous revisions of ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) / Michelle H. Raheja
- Sick and tired of living on stolen land (2023) / New Red Order with Riley Hooker
- Part 2. Native ontologies. Editorial note / Candice Hopkins
- Oral history / Spiderwoman Theater
- Performance art and the Native artist: an rEvolutionary mix? / Aiyyana Maracle
- Beading + weaving / Szu-Han Ho and Eric-Paul Riege (with Hólǫ)
- Ndn theatre: notes on olo lol olo lol olo / Eric-Paul Riege
- Suk / Tanya Lukin Linklater
- Event scores from the glossary of insistence / Tanya Lukin Linklater
- Speaking to water, singing to stone: Peter Morin, Rebecca Belmore, and the ontologies of indigenous modernity / Dylan Robinson
- Part 3. Embodiment. Editorial note / Candice Hopkins
- Notes on Indian theatre and theatre practice / Rolland R. Meinholtz
- a shape, a slightly flattened half-circle / Brandee Caoba
- Don't make me over: performance script with monologue by Arielle Twist / Jeffrey Gibson
- Notes on Don't make me over / Jeffrey Gibson
- why I write scores / asinnajaq
- To be unbodied / Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Fastest growing contemporary art (2022) / New Red Order
- Part 4. Contrariness. Editorial note / Candice Hopkins
- In a wilderness garden / Rebecca Belmore
- An infected sunset / Demian DinéYazhi'
- Oral history / Theo Jean Cuthand
- Creative combat: resurgent artistic practice / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Call me in '93: an interview with James Luna / Steven Durland
- When I travelled to the newcomers' homelands / Miss Chief Eagle Testickle (Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon)
- You are never just one thing in one place: tricksters and contrary spirits / A discussion between Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Joseph Naytowhow, and Richard William Hill
- The big night (2015) / Walter Scott
- Part 5. Authenticity & culturally specific institutional critique. Editorial note / Candice Hopkins
- On the commodification of Native culture / Candice Hopkins
- Luna remembers / Paul Chaat Smith
- Oral history / Rebecca Belmore
- Give it back: masterpiece theatre (2023) / New Red Order
- Part 6. Public space & monumentation. Editorial note / Candice Hopkins
- Notes on Sawkill / Rebecca Belmore
- Humble materials and powerful signs: remembering the suffering of others / Marcia Crosby
- Feeling the histories of Lhq'a:lets / Dylan Robinson
- my ancestors will not let me forget this / Demian DinéYazhi'
- Part 7. Sovereignty & enactment. Editorial note / Candice Hopkins
- Ianius: a mystical play / Monica Charles
- Total synchronization / Score by Maria Hupfield
- Notes on Total synchronization / Maria Hupfield
- Decolonization is not a metaphor / Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
- Art, visual sovereignty, and pushing perceptions / Jolene Rickard
- Notes on Listener / Kite
- Conversation / Kite and Jolene Rickard
- We are in crisis / Cannupa Hanska Luger
- Finale and exit
- Afterword / Tom Eccles
- Exhibition checklist
- Contributors
- Artists in the exhibition