James Luna used performance and installation to challenge museum display, stereotypes and the treatment of Native people as historical artifacts. A member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians, he made the contemporary Indigenous body central to institutional critique.
Performance; installation
Major Works
- 1987The Artifact Piece
- 1991Take a Picture with a Real Indian
- 2005Emendatio
- 1988The Shame Man
- 2000Petroglyphs in Motion
- 1992Pablo Tac
- 1990sHalf Indian/Half Mexican
- 2011We Become Them
- 1990sNative Stories
- 2010sArtifact Piece Revisited
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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