Jeffrey Gibson (Cherokee Nation, b. 1972) --- --- The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment No. 4 2019
To create this ceremonial garment, Jeffrey Gibson assembled what he calls a “patchwork” of materials, techniques and imagery: woven river cane and beadwork drawn from his Choctaw and Cherokee heritages; photographs of police officers at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests; and powwow regalia items such as jingles. Gibson’s performance work takes its title from “Manifesto Antropofago” 1928, a polemical essay by Brazilian theorist Oswald de Andrade, which argues that Indigenous peoples can best survive by imbibing their colonizers’ cultures and radically transforming them to support their own communities.
Jeffrey Gibson (Cherokee Nation, b. 1972) --- --- The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment No. 4 2019
To create this ceremonial garment, Jeffrey Gibson assembled what he calls a “patchwork” of materials, techniques and imagery: woven river cane and beadwork drawn from his Choctaw and Cherokee heritages; photographs of police officers at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests; and powwow regalia items such as jingles. Gibson’s performance work takes its title from “Manifesto Antropofago” 1928, a polemical essay by Brazilian theorist Oswald de Andrade, which argues that Indigenous peoples can best survive by imbibing their colonizers’ cultures and radically transforming them to support their own communities.