#artifact piece

[burymyart]

High resolution 18″ x 24” poster of Indigenous Puyukitchum/Ipai/Mexican American Indian artist, James Luna. "His powerful works transform gallery spaces into battlefields, where the audience is confronted with the nature of cultural identity, the tensions generated by cultural isolation, and the dangers of cultural misinterpretations, all from an Indigenous perspective.” As with all our posters, feel liberated to print out, wheatpaste, repost/regram, and disseminate at will!

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[art-in-context]

James Luna, Artifact Piece, 1987, San Diego Museum of Man

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In this piece Native American performance artist James Luna lay for several days in a glass display case atop sand next to other display cases containing Luna's personal items and ceremonial objects from the Luiseno reservation. Upon approaching the case many viewers were surprised to find a living being watching them, reversing the voyeuristic experience of museum going. Luna also calls attention to the tendency of museums to present Native American cultures as dead and extinct rather than carrying the history through to modern day representations.

http://www.jamesluna.com/

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