You Want Our Art but Not Our People
Canadian Art, May 23, 2019
Canadian Art, 2019
In a review about the 2019 Whitney Biennal, Indigenous artist and editor-at-large of Canadian Art Lindsay Nixon talks about the presence and politics of Black and brown artists within the exhibition. At the event, Nixon details Indigenous activists protesting Warren Kanders, vice chair of the Whitney who also owns a company that manufactures the tear gas used against protestors of Standing Rock, Ferguson and the US-Mexican border and the position of art within a political landscape. Various moments of militarization and intervention of Indigenous practices and general presence are all sh
Nixon also reviews various other pieces showcased at the Biennal by racialized artists.
ITEM 2019.015 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Young man wearing a maternity bust – John Edmonds
My Soul Remainer – Laura Ortman
National Times – Agustina Woodgate