Dana Claxton: The Sioux Project / Tatanka Oyate
September 30\, 2017 to January 7\, 2018
Symposium: Saturda
y\, September 30\, 2017
Dana Claxton: The Sioux Project / Tatanka Oyate (2017) is the first art exhibition to explore contemporary Siou x aesthetics in Saskatchewan. In this new work\, Hunkpapa Lakota artist Dan a Claxton claims the term Sioux for Lakota\, Dakota\, and Nakota p eoples as she dedicates herself to a careful analysis of contemporary Sioux relationships to the land. She does this by projecting interconnected stor ies onto four circular canvas screens. Viewers are invited into the circle to consider the many dialogues presented from hours of digital video footag e and still photographs collected from a series of workshops she and Cowboy Smithx held with Sioux youth from Standing Buffalo and White Cap First Nat ions.
Stitched together from interviews with artists\, cultural pract itioners\, and elders\, Claxton interrogates popular culture’s tropes and r omantic notions of landscape with the assemblage of diverse images and expe riences. The resulting installation delivers visual stories and images that thoughtfully consider beauty in relation to intergenerational knowledge an d the dispersal of Sioux peoples throughout Saskatchewan.
Symposium:
Saturday\, September 30\, 2017
***Register by September 25 for com
plimentary lunch
To register\, contact Janine Windolph\, Adjunct Curator of Public Programs
SCHEDULE
Friday\, September 29\, 2017
3:00 to
5:30 PM | Sneak Peak Tour of Gallery for youth from Whitecap Dakota First
Nation
5:30 to 6:30 PM | Public BBQ and Opening Celebrations
7:30
to 10:00 PM | Public Opening Reception with Artists
Saturday
\, September 30\, 2017
9:30 to 10:00 AM | Registration and Co
ffee
10:00 to 11:00 AM | Welcome by Elder Harland Goodtrack with Keyn ote: Patricia Goodwill
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM | Panel 1: Sioux Aestheti
cs\, Methods\, and Pedagogy
MODERATOR: Dr. Carmen Robertson
PANEL
ISTS: Dana Claxton\, Lynne Bell\, Gwenda Yuzicappi
12:00 to 1:00 PM | Lunch
1:00 to 2:00 PM | Panel 2: Storytelling and Video
MODERAT
OR: Dana Claxton
PANELISTS: Janine Windolph\, Cowboy SmithX\, Jules Ar
ita Koostachin
2:00 to 2:30 PM | Nutrition Break
2:30 to 3:30 P M | Key Note: Dr. Janet Berlo | Two Hundred Years of Sioux Art and Aestheti cs
Sunday\, October 1st\, 2017
2:00 to 4:00 PM
| Special Family Sunday Workshop with Buffalo People Arts Institute
< em>Organized by MacKenzie Art Gallery with support from Canada Council for the Arts\, SaskCulture\, Saskatchewan Arts Board\, City of Regina\, Univers ity of Regina\, and South Saskatchewan Community Foundation. Additional sup port from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Uni versity of British Columbia Department of Art History\, Visual Art & Theory .
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