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In connection with the exhibition “Collecting Stories: Native American Art,” Anishinaabek of Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario Canada transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield presents a new performance that reimagines narratives about artists and collectors. This work responds to the “Progress Vase,” a monumental work of silver, created for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition and covered in intricately cast figures and engraved images representing stereotypical American origin stories. In this performance, Hupfield uses her signature “sound tools”—hand-made objects that are worn, carried, and activated through performance. Through sound, objects, and her body, Hupfield aims to expand interpretations of the pursuit of progress and silver as a material.
Presented as the Kathryn C. Buhler Lecture series
In connection with the exhibition “Collecting Stories: Native American Art,” Anishinaabek of Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario Canada transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield presents a new performance that reimagines narratives about artists and collectors. This work responds to the “Progress Vase,” a monumental work of silver, created for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition and covered in intricately cast figures and engraved images representing stereotypical American origin stories. In this performance, Hupfield uses her signature “sound tools”—hand-made objects that are worn, carried, and activated through performance. Through sound, objects, and her body, Hupfield aims to expand interpretations of the pursuit of progress and silver as a material.
Presented as the Kathryn C. Buhler Lecture series
