Summer Exhibitions at Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art

Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 — on view via November 26 — is the primary large-scale exhibition to heart efficiency as an origin level for modern artwork by Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Alaska Native artists, starting with the function that they play within the self-determination period, sparked by the Occupation of Alcatraz in 1969. Indian Theater goals to discover how humor is used as a method for cultural critique and reflection, parse the inherent relationships between objecthood and company, and complicate representations of the Native physique. Music, dance, and music are additionally posited as a foundation for collectivity and resistance to a time when Native ceremony and public gatherings have been unlawful in each the USA and Canada.

Curated by Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), Forge Venture’s Govt Director and CCS Bard’s Fellow in Indigenous Artwork Historical past and Curatorial Research, the present brings collectively some 100 works by over 40 artists and collectives, together with new commissions and performances by Rebecca Belmore (Member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe)), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax̂), Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw and Cherokee), Kite (Oglala Sioux Tribe), and Eric-Paul Riege (Diné), amongst others.

Indian Theater is accompanied by a serious publication Native Visible Sovereignty: A Reader on Artwork and Efficiency (Fall 2023), edited by Hopkins and co-published by Dancing Foxes Press, CCS Bard, and Forge Venture.

Erika Verzutti: New Moons — on view via October 15 — supplies an expansive view of the daring and influential apply of one of the crucial vital Brazilian artists working right now. Marking Verzutti’s first US survey, the exhibition presents over 60 wall works and sculptures, encompassing supplies each everlasting and expendable, similar to bronze, clay, Styrofoam, papier machê, and porcelain. The artist integrates a large number of references — together with components from artwork and architectural historical past, plant, human, and animal life, in addition to non secular objects — leading to each singular new varieties and chains of associations.

Curated by Lauren Cornell, Chief Curator on the Hessel and Director of CCS Bard’s Graduate Program, the exhibition is accompanied by a publication with essays by Cornell; Ruba Katrib, Curator, MoMA PS1; Bernardo Mosqueira, ISLAA Curatorial Fellow on the New Museum; in addition to texts by Verzutti on particular person artworks. The publication Erika Verzutti: New Moons is co-published by Dancing Foxes, New York; the Institute for Research on Latin American Artwork (ISLAA), New York; and the Middle for Curatorial Research, Bard School.

For extra data, go to ccs.bard.edu.