Tree of Consumption: A Performance in the Round, photo print 2
Dana Claxton
September 18, 1992
Creative Access Description
Black and white landscape oriented image of a Lakota woman standing over head height on a plinth in the corner of a room. The woman is speaking into a corded microphone which is suspended from above on a boom. She holds a piece of paper with both hands in front of her. Her straight black hair is tied back tightly and her face is painted from her cheekbones up. She wears a gown with a low scooping neckline, flared long sleeves, and wide skirt bunched in a number of pleats. The upper front of the gown is adorned with a woven piece made from cedar or another organic fibre. Several long and twisty vines are attached to the weaving, looping around the woman's shoulders and spiralling outward from her body. The woman is spotlit from above on an otherwise dark stage. In front of the woman are four CRT monitors staged at various heights playing identical videos of what appears to be cut tree rounds sitting in a forest grove. The pictures are obscured by the high contrast of the monitors and hover ghostlike against the darkness. The white mat of the photo paper makes a thick border on all sides of the image.Description
Documentation of Tree of Consumption: A Performance in the Round. Dana Claxton is pictured onstage performing.Identifier
1992.0918 TRE I002Extent
1 photo printPhotographer
Merle AddisonSubject
Dana ClaxtonArtist
Dana ClaxtonRelated programs
Still: First Nations Performance (Related)Tree of Consumption: A Performance in the Round (Related)
Exhibition History
Merle Addison. (1999). Still: First Nations Performance. Exhibited at grunt gallery October 5 – 23, 1999.In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca