Essays — Dana Claxton

Essays

2021

Kazymerchyk, Amy and Leila Timmins

Scotiabank Photography Award: Dana Claxton, monograph.

2019

Laurence, Robin

“Dana Claxton”, Border Crossings, issue 150

2018

Lawrence, Toby Katrine

“Locating Sioux Aesthetics through The Sioux Project—Tatanka Oyate: Conversations with Dana Claxton”, BlackFlash magazine

2018

Arnold, Grant, Monika Kin Gagnon, Olivia Michiko Gagnon and Jaleh Mansoor

Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube, exhibition catalogue.

2017

Polyck-O’Neill, Julia

“Survivance, Signs, and Media Art Histories: New Temporalities and Productive Tensions in Dana Claxton’s Made to Be Ready,” BC Studies, no 195

2017

Timmins, Leila, cheyanne turions, and Jayne Wilkinson

“What Does One Do With Such a Clairvoyant Image?”, exhibition essay, Gallery 44 with Scotiabank CONTACT Festival

2016

Burnham, Clint

“Dana Claxton: Made to be Ready”, Espace, issue 113

2015

Cotter, Holland

“Review: ‘The Plains Indians,’ America’s Early Artists, at the Met”, The New York Times

2015

Dowell, Christine

“‘The Future Looks Rad from Where I Stand’: A Review of Claiming Space: Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth at the UBC Museum of Anthropology”, Anthropologica, volume 57, number 1

2015

Green, Christopher

“ArtSeen: The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky”, Brooklyn Rail

2014

Hladki, Janice

“‘Remembering Otherwise’: Counter-Commemoration and Reterritorialization in Indigenous Film and Video Art”, Revista de Estudios Globales & Arte Contemporáneo, Vol 2, No 1

2014

Kowalsky, Nathan

“Between Relativism and Romanticism: Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Social Critique”, Indigenous Perspectives of North America: A Collection of Studies, edited by Enik  Sepsi, Judit Nagy,Miklós Vassányi and János Kenyeres, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

2013

Hubbard, Tasha

“‘The Buffaloes Are Gone” or “Return: Buffalo?’ – The Relationship of the Buffalo to Indigenous Creative Expression”, Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 29.1-2

2013

Taunton, Carla

“Indigenous (Re)memory and Resistance: Video Works by Dana Claxton”, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory, edited by M. Elise Marubbio and Eric L. Buffalohead, University Press of Kentucky

2012

Sugrue, Meagan

“Humour in Contemporary Indigenous Photography: Re-focusing the Colonial Gaze”, The Arbutus Review, volume 3, number 2

2011

Claxton, Dana

“Making Medicine”, The Medicine Project curatorial essay, online exhibition with the grunt gallery

2010

Cachia, Amanda

“Map of Blood”, Diabolique curatorial essay, Oakville galleries

2006

Garneau, David

“Dana Claxton’s The Patient Storm”, ConunDrum online, issue 4

2004

Dowell, Christine

“Exploring the Sacred in Aboriginal Performance Art”, E-misferica. volume 2, issue 1