Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube
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 China – Dana Claxton
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance – Alanis Obomsawin
Grant Her Restitution – Dana Claxton
The Sioux Project -- Tatanka Oyate – Dana Claxton
I Want to Know Why – Dana Claxton
Ten Little Indians – Agatha Christie
10 – Dana Claxton
AIM – Dana Claxton
Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux – Dana Claxton
The Mustang Suite – Dana Claxton
Indian Candy – Dana Claxton
Rattle – Dana Claxton
The Patient Storm – Dana Claxton
Red on Red: Ode to Gramsci – Dana Claxton