{"product_id":"native-visual-sovereignty-9781954947115","title":"Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential resource for curators, Native and non-Native artists, scholars, students and teachers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative artists are at the vanguard of performance art practices and discourse, using humor as a strategy for cultural critique and reflection, parsing the relationships between objecthood and agency. This reader centers performance and theater as origin points for the development of contemporary art by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Alaska Native artists. Song, dance and music are also posited as a basis for collectivity and resistance and a means to speak to a time when Native traditional ceremony and public gatherings were illegal in both the United States and Canada. Featuring excerpts from the 1969 document \u003ci\u003eIndian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Process\u003c\/i\u003e, this illustrated reader also includes four long-form essays by leading Indigenous scholars, commissioned artist notes, oral history interviews and a selection of key texts from the fields of Native contemporary art, art history and theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOral history interviews with:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Belmore, TJ Cuthand, G. Peter Jemison, Spiderwoman Theater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book was published in conjunction with Forge Project; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Mackenzie Art Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery; SITE Santa Fe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8 January 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePage count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 169 mm; Width 244 mm; Thickness 38 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dancing Foxes Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781954947115\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Dancing Foxes Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50170163200250,"sku":"9781954947115","price":27.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/9781954947115.jpg?v=1787619790","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/native-visual-sovereignty-9781954947115","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}