Breaking protocol / Maria Hupfield ; introduction by Maria Hupfield with written contributions and artworks by Jackson 2bears [and 24 others] ; afterword, Carin Kuoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hupfield, Maria, editor, writer of introduction, contributor.

2bears, Jackson, artist.

Kuoni, Carin, writer of afterword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous art.

Minority artists--Political activity.

Minority artists.

Performance art--Political aspects.

Performance art.

Performance artists--Political activity.

Performance artists.

Ethnic art.

Decolonization in art.

Arts, Modern--21st century.

Arts, Modern.

Indigenous peoples in art.

Artists' books.

bookworks.

Physical Description:

159 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Inventory Press, [2023]

Summary:

For Breaking Protocol, transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield embarked on a research project on the protocols of Indigenous performance tracing Indigenous knowledge systems, land-preservation practices and feminist scholarship to illuminate strategies for enacting refusal within decolonial frameworks. The book draws from Hupfield's coffee breaks conversations held over Zoom during the pandemic, in which Hupfield invited international Indigenous performance artists to discuss their work (from dance to stand-up comedy), who in turn invited other artists to join the conversations. Building on these exchanges, Breaking Protocol asks what we can learn from Indigenous, place-based artistic modes of making and practice to open spaces for reciprocity and multiplicity

Contents:

Introduction / Maria Hupfield

Sensation / Tanya Lukin Linklater

Tahltan knowledge as a form of language performance : reflections on my beginnings with indigenous performance art / Peter Morin

The sound of the colour field : on Rebecca Belmore / Wanda Nanibush

Cousins / Meagan Musseau

To hear what the eels say, first look into the water : on Cheryl L'Hirondelle's Nipawiwin Akikodjiwan: Pimizi Ohci / Candice Hopkins

Learning from materials / Gabrielle L'Hirondell Hill

My mother gave me my IMFA-Indigenous master's of fine arts / Raven Davis

13 eggs / TJ Cuthand

I want pink drip / Vanessa Dion Fletcher

Victimprincessmother / Skeena Reece

Her working hands : on Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory / Georgiana Uhlyarik

Witnesser : on Lori Blondeau / Cathy Mattes

Iron tomahawks / Jackson 2Bears

A bear named Jesus my brother was a proud man / Archer Pechawis

Take care my boy / Kite

My drawings are shaking under the Manhattan Bridge / Charlene Vickers

A few words / Ursula Johnson

Scores from one recovering tokenized brown person to anther / Pelenakeke Brown

We are the vá/now / Rosanna Raymond

Te toki haruru (the resounding adze) / Charles Koroneho

Super massive thunder boom ultimate collection / Maria Hupfield

The dime collective : the symbology and genesis of a name / Akiko Ichikawa

Beauty and loudness / Christen Clifford

Documentation of a performance / Katherine Carl

All visible directions : Maria Hupfield and Natalie Diaz / Re'al Christian

Breaking protocol. Afterword / Carin Kuoni

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Co-published by Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781941753576

1941753574

OCLC:

1360318586