Critical Writing Index

Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube

by Grant Arnold

Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2018

ISBN 9781773270500

This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube curated by Grant Arnold at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The exhibition presents a survey of Vancouver-based Hunpapa Lakota artist Dana Claxton, who works across film, video, photography, and performance. The featured essays include visual analyses of Claxton's artworks, details of her historical and social context, and a chronological biography. The authors position Claxton's artwork at the intersection of traditional and contemporary knowledge, highlighting how the artist visualizes Indigenous "survivance".

Contents:

Director's Foreword by Kathleen S. Bartels; Tribute to Dana Claxton and the Art of Generosity by Layli Long Soldier; The Art of Dana Claxton by Grant Arnold; Gifts of Fringe by Monika Kin Gagnon and Olivia Michiko Gagnon; Dana Claxton's Patient Storm by David Garneau; 38 by Layli Long Soldier; Rebar, or Subterranean Weaving by Jaleh Mansoor; Chronology by Siobhan McCracken Nixon; Select Bibliography; Author Biographies; List of Works; Acknowledgements; Credits.

ITEM 2018.021 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Buffalo Bone ChinaDana Claxton

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of ResistanceAlanis Obomsawin

Grant Her RestitutionDana Claxton

The Sioux Project -- Tatanka OyateDana Claxton

I Want to Know WhyDana Claxton

Ten Little IndiansAgatha Christie

10Dana Claxton

AIMDana Claxton

Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw SiouxDana Claxton

The Mustang SuiteDana Claxton

Indian CandyDana Claxton

RattleDana Claxton

The Patient StormDana Claxton

Red on Red: Ode to GramsciDana Claxton