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