Native Visual Sovereignty

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Author: Hopkins, CandiceNative artists are at the vanguard of performance art practices and discourse, using humour as a strategy for cultural critique and reflection, parsing the relationships between objecthood and agency. This reader centres performance and theatre as origin points for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Alaska Native artists. Well illustrated, it also includes four long-form essays by leading Indigenous scholars and more texts.Song, dance and music are also posited as a basis for collectivity and resistance and a means to speak to a time when Native traditional ceremony and public gatherings were illegal in both the United States and Canada. Featuring excerpts from the 1969 document Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Process, this illustrated reader also includes four long-form essays by leading Indigenous scholars, commissioned artist notes, oral history interviews and a selection of key texts from the fields of Native contemporary art, art history and theory.Oral history interviews with: Rebecca Belmore, TJ Cuthand, G. Peter Jemison, Spiderwoman Theater.ISBN 9781954947115. Dancing Foxes Press. pb. 544 pages. 180 colour ills. 24.2 x 16.6 cm.available Show more