We are thrilled to have Jimmie Durham and Michael Taussig delivering the keynote conversation at STRONGER THAN STONE. STS is very much inspired by Durhams ongoing investigation of monuments and his projects finding alternate uses for stones (liberating them from art history). He, along with Jeff Thomas and Maria Thereza Alves, have been advisors to the project as weve developed it over many years. JIMMIE DURHAM is a sculptor, essayist and poet. He became involved in the arts – theatre, poetry, and literature – through the civil rights movement in the 1960s. His first solo exhibition as a visual artist was in Austin, Texas, in 1968. From 1973 to 1980 he was a political organizer with the American Indian Movement, serving as director of the International Indian Treaty Council and representative to the United Nations. In the early 1980s he returned to art, creating a body of work challenging colonial representations of North American Indians. He exhibited and published essays frequently, and from 1981 to 1983 he was the director of the Foundation for the Community of Artists in New York. In 1983 West End Press published Columbus Day, a book of his poems and in 1988 his poetry was also included in Harper’s Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry. In 1987 Durham moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico and in 1994 to Europe. In Europe, Durham’s art has focused primarily on the relationship between architecture, monumentality and national narratives. He has exhibited in venues around the world, including the Whitney Biennial, Documenta IX, ICA London, Exit Art, and the Venice Biennale, among many others. In 1993 a collection of Durham’s essays, A Certain Lack of Coherence, was published by Kala Press, and in 1995 Phaidon Press published Jimmie Durham, a comprehensive survey of his art, with contributions by Laura Mulvey, Dirk Snauwaert, and Mark Alice Durant. In 2005 Durham co-curated, with Richard William Hill, The American West, an attack on cowboy and Indian mythology, at Compton Verney, UK. In 2009, he installed a permanent public art piece, Serpentine rouge, in Indre (Loire-Atlantique), France, along the Loire River. Durham’s work has been the subject of three major retrospectives: the first organized jointly by the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseilles and the Museum Voor Actuele Kunst in Den Hague (2003); the second by the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2009); and the third by MuHKA, Antwerp (2012). He lives in Europe. youtu.be/5SOj9vumZOY
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