Monday, July 7, 2008

Sam Durant

Sam Durant: American Indian Movement

"By turning things upside down, I saw it as a kind of politicizing, a kind of acknowledgement of a world that, for Native Americans, is turned upside down," says Durant.

Three speakers surround the tree sculpture, each playing a unique hour-long audio collage that mixes ambient recordings from a pow-wow and selections of high school students rapping, telling stories, and reading-in English, Ojibwe, and Lakota-about contemporary themes and historical issues.


Direction Through Indirection, Sam Durant, 2003.

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