Dana Claxton:
Made To Be Ready
Exhibition Map and Bibliography
JAN 14 – MAR 12, 2016
Exhibition map
A. Dana Claxton, Uplifting, 2015, dimensions variable, 15min, digital
video. Courtesy the artist.
B. Dana Claxton, Cultural Belongings, 2015, 96 x 72 inches, LED firebox with transmounted Lightjet Duratrans. Edition 1 of 3. Courtesy the
artist.
C. Dana Claxton, Buffalo Woman 1 and 2, 2015, 108 x 42 inches, ink on
silk windbox. Edition 1 of 1. Courtesy the artist.
D. Dana Claxton, Headdress, 2015, 32 x 48 inches, LED firebox with
transmounted Lightjet Duratrans. Edition 1 of 3. Private
collection.
Bibliography
Catalogues and artist books
Grant Arnold, Monika Kin Gagnon, Doreen Jensen, eds. topographies: aspects of
recent B.C. art (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, Douglas & McIntyre, 1996)
Derek Barnett, Dana Claxton and Reid Shier, eds. Dana Claxton: Paris: June
Fourth, Fifth, & Sixth, Two Thousand & Six (North Vancouver: Presentation
House Gallery, 2014)
Catherine Crowston, ed. Face The Nation (Edmonton: Art Gallery of Alberta,
2008)
David Elliott, ed. 17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance - Songs
of Survival in a Precarious Age (Sydney: The Biennale of Sydney, Thames &
Hudson Australia)
Sunshine Frère and Nathan Zeitner, eds. Dana Claxton: Indian Candy
(Vancouver: Winsor Gallery, 2013)
Janice Hladki, ed. Fierce: Women’s Hot-Blooded Film/Video (Hamilton:
McMaster Museum of Art; Oshawa: Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2010)
Jenny Lion, ed. Magnetic North (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
Walter Art Center; Winnipeg: Video Pool Inc., 2000)
Karen Love, ed. Urban Fictions (North Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery,
1997)
Marie Lovrod, ed. Diabolique (Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 2009)
Kathleen Ritter and Tania Willard, eds. Beat Nation (Vancouver: Vancouver Art
Gallery, 2012)
Heather Smith, ed. Dana Claxton: Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux
(Moose Jaw: Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, 2007)
Ola Wlusek, ed. In The Flesh / En Chair Et En OS (Ottawa: Ottawa Art
Gallery, 2013)
Essays by the artist
Dana Claxton. “Aboriginal Screen Culture: Celebrating 10 years of imaginative”
(Toronto, Vtape, 2009)
. “Making Medicine,” The Medicine Project. accessed January 4, 2016.
http://www.themedicineproject.com/curatorial-essay.html
. “NWC on the Up...Load: Surfing for Northwest Coast Art,” in
Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas, eds.
Ki-ke-in, Jennifer Kramer and Charlotte Townsend-Gault (Vancouver: UBC
Press, 2013)
. “Re-wind,” in Transference, tradition, technology: native new media
exploring visual and digital culture, eds. Dana Claxton, Steven Loft, Melanie
Townsend (Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery; Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton;
Vancouver: Indigenous Media Arts Group, 2005)
. “Wisdom for All Through Identity Politics: A Hopeful Idea,” in In the
wake of the Komagata Maru: transpacific migration, race and contemporary
art : voices from the exhibition Ruptures in arrival and the symposium Disfiguring identity (Surrey: Surrey Art Gallery, 2015)
Dana Claxton and Tania Willard. “NDN AXE/IONS—a collaborative essay,”
Indianacts: aboriginal performance art. accessed January 4, 2016. http://indianacts.gruntarchives.org/essay-ndn-axe-ions-claxton-and-willard.html
. “Imperfect Compliance: A Trajectory of Transformation,” Arcpost:
Institutions by Artists: Vol. Two. accessed January 4, 2016. http://arcpost.ca/
articles/imperfect-compliance
Essays and articles on the artist’s work
Lynne Bell. “The Post/Colonial Photographic Archive and the Work of
Memory,” in Image and Inscription: an Anthology of Contemporary Canadian
Photography, ed. Robert Bean (Toronto: Gallery 44, YYZ Books, 2005)
Amber Berson. “Dana Claxton, The Mustang Suite and Hybrid Humour,”
St. Andrews Journal of Art History and Museum Studies, no.14 (2010)
Monika Kin Gagnon. “Worldviews in Collision: Dana Claxton’s Video
Installations,” in Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art
(Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, Artspeak; Kamloops: Kamloops Art Gallery,
2000)
David Garneau. “Dana Claxton’s Patient Storm,” Storm Spirits: Aboriginal New
Media Art. October 2006. http://www.stormspirits.ca/English/Storm/essay.html
Richard William Hill. “Close Readings: Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaable Artists of the Great Lakes, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto July 26–Nov
23, 2014 & The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City, March 9–May 10, 2015,” C Magazine, Winter
2016.
Janice Hladki. “ ‘Remembering Otherwise’: Counter-Commemoration and
Re-Territorialization in Indigenous Film and Video Art,” Revisit de Estudios
Globales y Arte Contemporáneo 2, no. 1 (2014) http://revistes.ub.edu/index.
php/REGAC/article/view/10248/13077
Michelle La Flamme. “Dana Claxton: Reframing the Sacred and Indigenizing the
White Cube,” in Diversity and Dialogue: The Eiteliorg Fellowship for
Native American Fine Art, ed. James H. Nottage (Indianapolis: Eiteljorg
Museum of American Indians and Western Art; Seattle: University of Washington
Press, 2008)
Carla Taunton. “(Re)memory and Resistance: Video Works by Dana Claxton,” in
Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory, eds. Eric
L. Buffalohead and M. Elise Marubbio (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2013)
Tania Willard. “Starting from Home,” Starting From Home: An online retrospective
of the work of Dana Claxton. http://danaclaxton.com/archive/assets/Starting_From_Home.pdf
Related readings suggested by the artist
M. Jacqui Alexander. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism,
Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (Durham: Duke University Press,
2005)
Marie Battiste. Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit
(Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2013)
Joseph Boyden. Through Black Spruce (New York: Viking, 2009)
Vine Deloria Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (New York:
Macmillan, 1969/1989)
. Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific
Fact (New York: Scribner, 1995)
Michel Foucault. The Politics of Truth, eds. Lysa Hochroth and Sylvère
Lotringer (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2007)
Antonio Gramsci. Prison Notebooks, trans. Joseph A. Buttigieg (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2011)
Tilda Long Soldier and Mark St. Pierre. Walking in the sacred manner: holy
women, healers, and pipe carriers–medicine women of the Plains Indians
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995)
Lee Maracle. I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
(Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1996)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies,
Dialogues, ed. Sarah Harasym (New York: Routledge, 1990)
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