Tree of Consumption: A Performance in the Round, negative 43A
Dana Claxton
September 18, 1992
Creative Access Description
Black and white portrait oriented image of a Lakota woman standing in the corner of a dark 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. 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 dimly lit by a single overhead light. In the foreground a CRT monitor plays a video of what appears to be the back of a person with long dark hair, shirtless with their raised arms outstretched and their wrists bound to a thick log that rests across their shoulders. The background of the video has additional indiscernible action. The picture is obscured by the high contrast of the monitors and hover ghostlike against the darkness.Description
Documentation of Tree of Consumption: A Performance in the Round. Dana Claxton is pictured onstage performing.Identifier
1992.0918 TRE I004Extent
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