Shoot the Indian

June 8, 2008
Performance Art

About the Program

Archer Pechawis' Shoot the Indian is a performance geared specifically to a mixed (read "non-native") audience. Presented during the Magnetic North Festival HIVE event, Shoot the Indian is an audience participation piece, where attendees have the opportunity to shoot a real Indian (Archer) with a paintball gun for $5. Riffing on the circus freak, vaudeville and old "Wild West" shows, this piece is a commentary on violence against Native people. A clown show, in other words.

Artist

Archer Pechawis

Identifier

2008.0608 SHO

Part of the series

HIVE 2

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

Centre for Digital Media
685 Great Northern Way, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 0C6
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations
​​In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca

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