performance
18:00 Saturday 6th Decewmber 2003
installation exhibition [view by appointment]
7th - 20th December 2003

Jimmie Durham is an internationally acclaimed artists, writer, poet and performer of Cherokee descent. His intricate sculptures and installations mimic the attributes of humans and animals, and the ways they make or are
made into history. His work at trace investigates recurrent these recurrent themes in relation to the USA and issues of colonisation and imperialism.

His work in general, be it performance, wall based, sculptural, and ersatz ethnographic displays deliver ironic assaults on the colonising procedures of western culture and weave a complex thread of puns, poetry and political
invective. An activist in the American Indian Movement [AIM] during the 1970¹s, he has published numerous books of poetry, fiction and critical theory. His work has been exhibited at Documenta, Whitney Museum, New York, Ghent and Brussels Museums, ICA, London and most recently at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

'I wish I were a better artist. I wish you knew how good I am. [So that you could help me] I wish I could find the missing pieces.'