Luna, James, Truman Lowe, Paul Chaat Smith, Fondazione scientifica Querini Stampalia and National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) (2005). James Luna: Emendatio. Washington, D.C., National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Catalog of an exhibition at the 51st Venice Biennale presented at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy, June 9-Nov. 6, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-75). Text in English and Italian. Includes a double-sided DVD with PAL and NTSC versions.
James Luna (February 9, 1950 – March 4, 2018) was a Payómkawichum, Ipi, and Mexican-American performance artist, photographer and multimedia installation artist. His work is best known for challenging the ways in which conventional museum exhibitions depict Native Americans. With recurring themes of multiculturalism, alcoholism, and colonialism, his work was often comedic and theatrical in nature. In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. A self-proclaimed "American Indian Ceremonial Clown", "Culture Warrior," and "Tribal Citizen", Luna's artwork was known for challenging racial categories and exposing outmoded, Eurocentric ways in which museums have displayed Native American Indians as parts of natural history, rather than as living members of contemporary society. [from Wikipedia]
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