Redskin Imaginary
Program, P.2102
- Identifier
- P.2102
- Type
- Performance art
- Category
- Inter-Arts
- Date
- March 13, 2010
- Description
- REDSKIN IMAGINARY brought together two artists re-thinking Indigenous heritage and ancestry at the intersection of our traditional teachings and the postmodern notion of Hauntology. That is, thinking about our inheritance as a form of haunting or ghosting in which identity is spectralized as a product of our colonial reality, and where contemporary modes of expression rooted in our oral traditions of storytelling form a basis for cultural, social and political critique. Here, the works of these artists emerged as powerful forms of creative resistance and resurgence through deconstructing the legacy of a violent, discriminatory, racist and genocidal past to which we are the heirs. Artists: Lori Blondeau and Dana Claxton Curator: Jackson 2Bears