Dead Injuns part2
Jackson 2bears

My current work focuses on the politics of Indigenous identity in contemporary culture, and is informed by my own experiences growing up in urban Canada as a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) person.

My performance work is primarily inspired by electronic music and dj/vj culture, and uses the form of the remix as a tool for cultural critique. Often emerging as a playful take on popular Native stereotypes, these live remixes function as mixed-media interventions against extirpative and discriminatory representations of First Nations culture. In this way, these multimedia collages are for me a means of discovering a self-reflexive path of engagement with my own Native heritage by way of remixing and re-appropriating Indigenous identity for myself.

Jackson 2bears performing “Dead Injuns part2”…[is] inspired by the need to re-appropriate indigenous identity symbols; this performance explores issues of Native American stereotypes and racism in the media, film and popular culture.

- Jackson 2bears

This performance is part of the Visualeyez Festival:

Exhibition date: Saturday, May 19, 2007

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