Tree of Consumption: A Performance in the Round, negative 31A
Dana Claxton
September 18, 1992
Creative Access Description
Black and white portrait 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 lit by a single overhead light on an otherwise dark stage. In the right side foreground a CRT monitor plays a video of what appears to be a tree. The picture is obscured by the high contrast of the monitors and hover ghostlike against the darkness. Another monitor sits to the lower left, its screen mostly out of frame.Description
Documentation of Tree of Consumption: A Performance in the Round. Dana Claxton is pictured onstage performing.Identifier
1992.0918 TRE I003Extent
1 35mm negativePhotographer
Merle AddisonSubject
Dana ClaxtonArtist
Dana ClaxtonRelated program
Tree of Consumption: A Performance in the Round (Related)In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca