Announcement

NEW ARTIST BOOK BY MARIA HUPFIELD CENTERS ON PERFORMANCE PRACTICES GROUNDED IN INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND SOVEREIGNTY

For Breaking Protocol, transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield embarked on a research project on the protocols of Indigenous performance—tracing Indigenous knowledge systems, land-preservation practices, and feminist scholarship to illuminate strategies for enacting refusal within decolonial frameworks. Deftly weaving written reflections, visual essays, poetry, short stories, and scores, Breaking Protocol centers on Indigenous place-based artistic modes of making and practice to open spaces for reciprocity and multiplicity.

In Hupfield’s words, “Breaking Protocol honors the strength and beauty of the artists who fuel and feed my practice; it comes from the desire to hold space together, connect, continue, resist, and thrive! These exchanges emphasize a diversity of practice, a grounding in Indigenous knowledge, and collective approaches to demanding sovereignty and critical accountability.”

Edited with an introduction by Maria Hupfield. With written contributions and artworks by Jackson 2bears, Pelenakeke Brown, Katherine Carl, Re’al Christian, Christen Clifford, TJ Cuthand, Raven Davis, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Candice Hopkins, Akiko Ichikawa, Ursula Johnson, Kite, Charles Koroneho, Carin Kuoni, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Cathy Mattes, Peter Morin, Meagan Musseau, Wanda Nanibush, Archer Pechawis, Rosanna Raymond, Skeena Reece, Georgiana Uhlyarik, and Charlene Vickers, and reflections on Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, Dennis Redmoon Darkheem, Natalie Diaz, the Dime Collective, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Jane Schoolcraft, and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory.

BOOK DETAILS
Co-published by Inventory Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, in partnership with the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands, Arizona State University.

Editor: Maria Hupfield
Managing editors: Re’al Christian and Carin Kuoni
Editorial assistant: Amanda Berardi
Copy editor: Re’al Christian
Proofreader: Eugenia Bell
Design: IN-FO.CO (Adam Michaels, Ella Gold)
Production: Matthew Harvey
Color separations: Thomas Bollier
Printing: Friesens

160 pages, fully colored
6.5 × 9 inches
ISBN 978-1-941753-57-6

Distributed by D.A.P.
Now shipping from Inventory Press

CONTACT
Zoe Lemelson, Inventory Press
zoe@inventorypress.com

Re’al Christian, Vera List Center for Art and Politics
rchristian@newschool.edu

LAUNCH EVENTS
Additional events to be announced.

Breaking Protocol Book Launch
Performance conversation with Maria Hupfield and Thomas (T.) Jean Lax
Sunday, October 8, 2023, 3–4:30 pm
​Artbook @ MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave (at 46th Ave.)
Long Island City, NY 11101

Art Toronto 2023
On Saturday, October 28, 12:30 pm, join Patel Brown Gallery presents the Canadian launch of Breaking Protocol, featuring Maria Hupfield and contributors Vanessa Dian Fletcher, Archer Pechawis, and Georgiana Uhlyarik about Indigenous performance art practices. The event is followed by a book signing.

Off Script: Breaking Protocol and Aural Poetics
Co-launch organized by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the VLC
Feat. Maria Hupfield, Peter Morin, Michael Nardone, Patrick Nickleson, Skeena Reece,
and Charlene Vickers
Rescheduled: spring 2024 (details to be announced)