The Sioux Project--Tatanka Oyate / edited by Dana Claxton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Claxton, Dana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous art.

Film installations (Art).

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

187 pages: illustrations; 29 cm

Other Title:

Tatanka Oyate

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, BC : Information Office, 2020.

Summary:

"Tatanka Oyate fills a major gap in our understanding of contemporary Sioux aesthetics in North America with a specific focus on the knowledge and practices of Lakota/Nakota/Dakota (Sioux) communities in Saskatchewan, Canada. The publication reflects over three years of on-the-ground research involving a team led by Lakota video/performance artist Dana Claxton, art historian Lynne Bell, artist Gwenda Yuzicappi, and filmmaker Cowboy Smithx. The video footage gathered over the course of multiple visits to Sioux communities across Saskatchewan formed the basis of Claxton's four-channel video installation at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan in 2017. Essays by Bell, Smithx, and MacKenzie Head Curator Timothy Long, as well excerpts from video interviews with community participants, speak to the community-based methodology of this research-creation project and the significance of Claxton's installation. Densely illustrated with stills and in-situ shots of the installation, the texts offer a moving community portrait of how the traditional knowledge of elders is being actively transmitted to and translated by a generation that is as comfortable with video mashups as they are with star quilts and beadwork. Produced for academic, artistic and broader communities, the publication includes a consideration of how Sioux aesthetics have been defined by communities and artists in North America, both historically and in the contemporary period, in essays by leading Indigenous scholars, Janet Catherine Berlo, Bea Medicine and Carmen Robertson. The historical background for the presence of Tatanka Oyate, the "Buffalo Nation," in western Canada is provided in a chronology by historian David R. Miller.."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Director's Foreword / Anthony Kiendl

The Sioux Project: Tatanka Oyate

The Buffalo People / Lynne Bell

Beauty, Abundance, Generosity, and Performance: Sioux Aesthetics in Historical Context / Janet Catherine Berlo

Dakota/Lakota Chronology / David R. Miller

Dana Claxton's Time Machine / Timothy Long

The Sioux Project: A Journey Through Generations / Cowboy Smithx

Lakota Views of "Art" and Artistic Expression / Bea Medicine

Visual Histories/Contemporary Stories / Carmen Robertson

List of Dakota/Lakota/NakotaFirst Nations in Canada

Excerpts from Video Interviews

Selected Sioux Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements & Credits.

Notes:

Co-published by MacKenzie Art Gallery.

ISBN:

9781988860053

1988860059

OCLC:

1142177885