Title & Author:

Native visual sovereignty : a reader on art and performance / edited by Candice Hopkins.

Publication:

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York : Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College ; Taghkanic, New York : Forge Project ; Regina, Saskatchewan : MacKenzie Art Gallery ; Santa Fe, New Mexico : SITE SANTA FE ; Brooklyn, New York : Dancing Foxes Press ; 2025.
©2025

Description:

559 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"This reader is published on the occasion of the exhibition Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 at the Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, June 24 to November 26, 2023; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, May 23 to October 5, 2025; and SITE SANTA FE, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 5 to September 21, 2026."--Colophon
"Artists in the exhibition: American Indian Theatre Ensemble, asinnajaq (Inuk), Audie Murray (Métis), Beau Dick (Kwakwa̱ka̱'wakw, Musgamakw Dzawada'enuxw First Nation), Bob Boyer (Métis), Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota), Charlene Vickers (Anishinaabe), Dana Claxton (Lakota), Demian DinéYazhi' (Diné), Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota), Eric-Paul Riege (Métis), Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill (Métis), Ishi Glinsky (Tohono O'odham), James Luna (Payómkawichum, Ipai, and Mexican), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw and Cherokee), Jeneen Frej Njootli (Vuntut Gwitchin, Czech, and Dutch), Jessie Oonark (Inuit), KC Adams (Métis), Kay WalkingStick (citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and Anglo), Kent Monkman (member of the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory [Manitoba]), Kite (Oglala Sioux Tribe), Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw), Lloyd H. New (Cherokee) and Rolland R. Meinholtz, Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee), Maria Hupfield (Anishinaabek, Wasauksing First Nation [Canada]), Marie Watt (Seneca and German Scottish), Matthew Kirk (Navajo/Diné), Natalie Ball (Klamath/Modoc), New Red Order (Adam Khalil [Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians]; Zack Khalil [Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians]; Jackson Polys [Tlingit]), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax̂), Nico Williams (Anishinaabe), Rachel Martin (Tlingit/Tsaagweidei, Killer Whale Clan, of the Yellow Cedar House [Xaai Hit'] Eagle Moeity), Raven Halfmoon (Caddo), Rebecca Belmore (member of the Lac Seul First Nation [Anishinaabe]), Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Rosalie Favell (Métis [Cree/British]), Ruth Cuthand (Plains Cree, Scottish, Irish, Canadian), Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians), Sonny Assu (Ligwiłda'xw Kwakwa̱ka̱'wakw from Wei Wei Kum Nation), Spiderwoman Theater (Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel, and Muriel Miguel [all Rappahannock and Kuna]), Tanya Lukin Linklater (Alutiiq/Sugpiaq), Theo Jean Cuthand (Plains Cree, Scottish, Irish), Walter Scott (Kanien'kehá:ka [Mohawk])"--p.545
"Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 was curated by Candice Hopkins, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Forge Project, and organized by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. The presentation at MacKenzie Art Gallery was organized by Crystal Mowry, Director of Programs. The presentation at SITE SANTA FE was organized by Brandee Caoba, Curator, and Max Holmes, Director of Exhibitions (through August 2025), and SITE SANTA FE's Exhibitions Team."--p.559
Includes bibliographical references.
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

Summary:

"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 occupation of Alcatraz Island by the Indians of All Tribes in November 1969, and the publication of the vanguard document Indian Theatre: An Experiment in Progress by the Institute of American Indian Arts, which launched the new Native theater movement. This reader, a compendium of existing critical texts, newly commissioned essays, oral histories, and contributions by artists, documents the shift from the Self-Determination Era to current modes of enacting sovereignty in visual art, performance, sound, and theater."-- p.4 of cover

ISBN:

1954947119
9781954947115

Subject:

Indigenous art North America Exhibitions.
Performance art North America Exhibitions.
Art autochtone Amérique du Nord Expositions.
Manœuvre artistique Amérique du Nord Expositions.
HISTORY / United States / General.

Added entries:

Hopkins, Candice, editor.
asinnajaq, 1991-
Belcourt, Billy-Ray.
Belmore, Rebecca.
Caoba, Brandee.
Charles, Monica.
Crosby, Marcia.
Cuthand, TJ.
DinéYazhi', Demian, 1983-
Durland, Steven.
Gibson, Jeffrey, 1972-
Gordon, Gisèle.
Hampton, John G. (Art museum curator)
Hill, Richard William, 1967-
Ho, Szu-Han
Hooker, Riley
Hupfield, Maria.
Jemison, G. Peter.
Khalil, Adam, 1988-
Khalil, Zack, 1991-
Kite, Suzanne, 1990-
L'Hirondelle, Cheryl, 1958-
Luger, Cannupa Hanska, 1979-
Lukin Linklater, Tanya.
Luna, James.
Maracle, Aiyanna
Meinholtz, Rolland.
Miguel, Gloria.
Miguel, Muriel.
Monkman, Kent.
Naytowhow, Joseph
New, Lloyd Kiva.
Polys, Jackson, 1976-
Raheja, Michelle H.
Rickard, Jolene.
Riege, Eric-Paul
Robinson, Dylan.
Scott, Walter, 1985-
Simpson, Lisa Betasamosake
Smith, Paul Chaat.
Tuck, Eve
Twist, Arielle, 1994-
Yang, K. Wayne.
Hessel Museum of Art, host institution.
MacKenzie Art Gallery, host institution.
Site Santa Fe (Gallery), host institution.
Forge Project, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order