Showing posts with label Dana Claxton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dana Claxton. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2019

A Loaned Gift Returned



Back in October I posted on a piece of red (Wopila) cloth given to me by Hunkpapa Lakota artist Dana Claxton during her 2016 Belkin Art Gallery Follow the Red Sinew performance and, in October, lent to the VAG for her Fringing the Cube exhibition. Yesterday the cloth was returned, along with an exhibition catalogue. Nice. I look forward to reading the essays.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Red Cloth



On Friday March 4, 2016 Dana Claxton performed Follow the Red Sinew at the Belkin Art Gallery. At the end of the performance, she gave me a piece of red cloth, which I tucked into a red folder and filed on a shelf devoted to Vancouver art and artists.

After Dana and Skeena Reece's on-stage conversation at last Sunday's Vancouver Art Book Fair, Dana asked if I still had the cloth, and could she borrow it for her VAG show. "But it opens on Friday," I said somewhat incredulously. "Yes, I know," said Dana smiling, "so I'll need it soon."

Because I was out most of yesterday I had told Pauline, Dana's assistant, that I would leave the cloth on my porch. Not on the chair, as it says in the picture, but under its cushion, which I did.