Artist Talk: Erica Lord in Conversation with Lara Evans
June 20, 2:00 pm—3:30 pm MDT
Join us for a conversation with Erica Lord and Lara Evans to learn about the legacy of performing James Luna’s Artifact Piece, Revisited.
Evans and Lord will speak about Lord’s reenactment of James Luna’s The Artifact Piece, initially performed at the San Diego Museum of Man in 1987, in which Luna placed himself in a display case with some personal items. The work prompts critical reflection on the objectification and fetishization of Indigenous bodies and cultures in museums and the art world at large, while foregrounding contemporary and gendered perspectives. The speakers will explore how Lord and Luna came into agreement about Lord’s performance and then inspired one another’s subsequent work.
