John Feodorov gave a lecture today. He talked about responsibility, appropriation, ambiguity and being a contemporary Native American artist. I have been thinking a lot about all those things lately, especially about appropriation of Native American symbols among non native artists/people.
Also, he talked a little bit about art as a ‘solution’ and it reminded me of this John Baldessari painting.
And he talked about making artwork and being apart of the art world as a brown person and it reminded me of David Hammons: “I’m trying to get away with the redundancy of being an African-American or making African-American art. It’s like a double negative, a double noun. So I’m trying to figure it out. Everyone knows that I am black, so my work doesn’t have to shout it out anymore…. I am black. The work will automatically be thought of as a part of my African-American culture.”
