Live (sort of), this week at the NMAI in NYC, a performance by artist Erica Lord (Inupiaq/Athabaskan) who will re-enact James Luna’s seminal performance work, the Artifact Piece. First performed in 1987, this work famously disrupted the historic objectification of Native people in museums and symbolically seized control of Native representation. Twenty years later, Lord investigates the power of the original performance and invites a discussion of its continued relevance.

(photo courtesy-erica lord)

THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008, 2:00–5:30 pm followed by a 6:00 pm lecture and dialogue with the artist by NMAI Curator Paul Chaat Smith (<-YAY Paul!)

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008, 10:00 am–12:00 pm/2:00–4:00 pm
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2008, 1:00–4:00 pm

George Gustav Heye Center

National Museum of the American Indian

Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House

One Bowling Green, New York City

The George Gustav Heye Center is adjacent

to Battery Park between State and Whitehall

Streets in Lower Manhattan.

Subway: 4 or 5 to Bowling Green, R or W to

Whitehall, 2 or 3 to Wall Street, 1 to South

Ferry. Bus: M1, M6, or M15 to South Ferry