Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969
Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 is the first large-scale exhibition of its kind to center performance and theater as an origin point for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, M茅tis, Inuit, and Alaska Native artists, beginning with the role that Native artists have played in the self-determination era, sparked by the Occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes in 1969. Native artists then and now are at the vanguard of performance art practices and discourse. As part of Indian Theater, their work uses humor as a strategy for cultural critique and reflection, parses the inherent relationships between objecthood and agency, and frequently complicates representations of the Native body through signaling the body鈥檚 absence and presence via clothing, blanketing, and adornment. In the exhibition, song, dance, and music are also posited as a basis for collectivity and resistance and a means to speak back to a time when Native traditional ceremony and public gatherings were illegal in both the United States and Canada. In addition to artworks, the exhibition includes important archival material documenting the emergence of the New Native Theater movement in Santa Fe in 1969 as well as materials directly related to the early self-determination era.
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Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 is the first large-scale exhibition of its kind to center performance and theater as an origin point for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, M茅tis, Inuit, and Alaska Native artists, beginning with the role that Native artists have played in the self-determination era, sparked by the Occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes in 1969. Native artists then and now are at the vanguard of performance art practices and discourse. As part of Indian Theater, their work uses humor as a strategy for cultural critique and reflection, parses the inherent relationships between objecthood and agency, and frequently complicates representations of the Native body through signaling the body鈥檚 absence and presence via clothing, blanketing, and adornment. In the exhibition, song, dance, and music are also posited as a basis for collectivity and resistance and a means to speak back to a time when Native traditional ceremony and public gatherings were illegal in both the United States and Canada. In addition to artworks, the exhibition includes important archival material documenting the emergence of the New Native Theater movement in Santa Fe in 1969 as well as materials directly related to the early self-determination era.
Artists on show
- Audie Murray
- Beau Dick
- Bob Boyer
- Cannupa Hanska Luger
- Charlene Vickers
- Dana Claxton
- Demian DinéYazhi
- Dyani White Hawk
- Eric-Paul Riege
- Gabrielle Hill
- Isabella Rose Weetaluktuk
- Ishi Glinsky
- James Luna
- Jaune Quick-To-See Smith
- Jeffrey Gibson
- Jeneen Frei Njootli
- Jessie Oonark
- Kay WalkingStick
- KC Adams
- Kent Monkman
- Linda Lomahaftewa
- Lloyd Kiva New
- Maria Hupfield
- Marie Watt
- Matthew Kirk
- Natalie Ball
- New Red Order
- Nicholas Galanin
- Nico Williams
- Rachel Martin
- Raven Halfmoon
- Rebecca Belmore
- Rick Bartow
- Rosalie Favell
- Ruth Cuthand
- Sky Hopinka
- Sonny Assu
- Suzanne Kite
- Tanya Lukin Linklater
- Theo Jean Cuthand
- Walter Scott
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