Empowering Art: Indigenous Creativity and Activism from North America’s Northwest Coast
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
March 12 to July 30, 2023
Curated by Jack Davy and Theo Weiss
Curatorial consultant, Jordan Wilson
The video from Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s mixed media installation, An Indian Act Shooting the Indian Act, 1997, is on loan to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, for inclusion in the exhibition Empowering Art: Indigenous Creativity and Activism from North America’s Northwest Coast, March 12 to July 30, 2023. Developed in consultation with Indigenous artists and community leaders from across the Northwest Coast of North America, the exhibition showcases works from renowned Indigenous artists, including Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Marianne Nicolson, and Susan Point, as well as works from a new generation of artists, including Morgan Asoyuf, Phil Gray, and Danielle Morsette.
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun
An Indian Act Shooting the Indian Act
Production: grunt gallery, Vancouver, and Locus+, Newcastle, UK.
Camera: Simon Herbert
Editing: Brigitta Kocsis
Video Still: An Indian Act Shooting the Indian Act, Bisley Camp or Healey Estate, 1997
Collection of the Kamloops Art Gallery. Purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program. The performance and exhibition were originally produced by grunt gallery, Vancouver, Canada, and Locus+, Newcastle, UK.