Dominican University of California
Past, Present & Future: Decolonization Through American Indian Performance & Installation Art
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Performance and installation art are unique creative outlets which have the benefit of undefined or blurred boundaries. Both performance art and installation art provide creative formats which present a means to address the cultural struggles that Indians face throughout the Americas. In examining the work of artists like the Postcommodity Collective, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, James Luna and Erica Lord, the connection between performance and installation art and Indian culture can be made. This special relationship creates a method for addressing issues such as identity, gender, colonization, sexuality, prejudice and spirituality. As an artist and an Indian, I am including my own creative process as a part of my research to actualize my own decolonization process in creating a performance piece to better relate with these artists and my culture.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's Thesis (Campus only Access)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Graduate Humanities
- Year dc:date.available
- 2016
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Canby, Victoria G.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Joshua Horowitz, PhD
- Leslie Ross, PhD
Subjects
dc:subject × 7Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.dominican.edu/masters-theses/221
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.dominican.edu:masters-theses-1231