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14 juil. 2021 · In 1997, on three occasions in two different locations in the UK, Yuxweluptun shot up paper copies of Canada’s Indian Act legislation – one of the oldest and most notorious acts in Canadian history.
'An Indian Act: Shooting the Indian Act' by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, September 13, 1997. Performance at Bisley Camp, Surrey, UK. Video by Dana Claxton. Original tape from grunt gallery archives digitized by Vtape. grunt gratefully acknowledges the support of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre's BC History Digitization Program.
20 déc. 2019 · His disdain for the Indian Act is evident in his 1997 performance An Indian Act Shooting the Indian Act, in which he travelled to Britain and, on three occasions, literally shot 20 paper copies of the Indian Act at the Healey Estate and Bisley Camp with a rifle.
Indigenous Art. The decorated rifle, empty bullet casings and shredded Indian Act are the remains of a live performance at Healey Estate, Northumberland, United Kingdom. In 1997, on three occasions in two different locations in the UK, Yuxweluptun shot up paper copies of Canada's Indian Act legislation - one of the oldest and most notorious ...
The Indian Act was a piece of 'new world' legislation created by the sovereign British government and passed by the Canadian government in 1868 that attempted to subdue and control indigenous peoples in a racist and paternalistic manner.
One of Yuxweluptun’s most striking installations, An Indian Shooting the Indian Act (1999), is included in the MOA exhibition, along with video documentation of its accompanying performance piece ( An Indian Shooting the Indian Act, 1997).
Il y a 6 jours · Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks. This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle Range in Surrey, England, where he's literally shooting the Indian Act in a performance piece called "An Indian Shooting the Indian Act."
