Terrance Houle (Blood) uses performance, photography, video/film, music and painting, as well as tools of mass dissemination such as billboards and vinyl bus signage.
From the artist’s statement: “The Urban Indian Series is a comment on personal identity and cultural commodity in today’s contemporary culture. Specifically, what is my culture as it compares to the mainstream understanding of Native Peoples? My regalia is both a catalyst in the image, breaking up the sea of mundane western garb, and a representation that is part of my everyday, much like my culture, thus challenging the suggestion that I am out of place in a world that only identifies with conformity. The work serves to question ideas of tradition, identity and culture that are often negated or replaced by Western cultural standards.”
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