Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1980 - 1993

Entre 1973 et 1979, Jimmie Durham se consacre à plein-temps au Mouvement amérindien (American Indian Movement, ou AIM) et abandonne la création artistique. Il est nommé directeur du Conseil international des Traités indiens et représentant des Amérindiens aux Nations Unies. En 1980, il quitte l'AIM, rejoint la scène artistique à New York et reprend sa carrière artistique. Les œuvres de cette époque regorgent de références à l'identité amérindienne, et plus important encore, elles constituent souvent une réponse aux attentes du public de la part d'un artiste amérindien. En 1985, Jimmie Durham présente à l'Alternative Museum à New York une exposition intitulée A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. En 1987, Durham s'installe à Cuernavaca au Mexique. Au cours de cette période, il expose et donne des performances dans le monde entier, comme à la Documenta IX, au Palais des Beaux-Arts à Bruxelles, et au M HKA à Anvers. C’est aussi une période pendant laquelle il écrit régulièrement des textes et de la poésie. En 1988, il publie un recueil de poèmes et en 1993, le compilation de textes A Certain Lack of Coherence.
Oeuvres
On Loan From the Museum of the American Indian, 1985
Jimmie Durham
Installation, mixed media, variable dimensions
Bedia's Stirring Wheel, 1985
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, aluminium, leather, fur, paint, feathers, skull, string, cloth, steering wheel, 115 x 46 cm
Pocahontas' Underwear, 1985
Jimmie Durham
Object, feathers, beads, fabric, fasteners, 31 x 25 cm
Bedia's Muffler, 1985
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, metal, leather, beads, shells, acrylic paint, 86,4 x 115,2 x 12 cm
New York Gitli, 1985
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, skull, braid, acrylic paint, shell, turquoise, metal, 120 x 29 x 70 cm
Tlunh Datsi, 1985
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, skull, feathers, turquoise, acrylic paint, shells, wood, 103 x 91 x 81 cm
A Dead Deer, 1986
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, skull, bone, wood, paint, string, plastic, 120 x 72 x 14.4 cm
Self-Portrait, 1987
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, canvas, wood, paint, feather, shell, turquoise, metal, 173 x 87 x 29 cm
Two Legs of Wood, 1988
Jimmie Durham
Other, 70 x 22 x 22 cm
Four Scenes for the British Army, 1988
Jimmie Durham
Performance
The Two Johns, 1988
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, wood, paint, 54 x 61 x 6 cm
La Malinche, 1988-1991
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, wood, cotton, snakeskin, watercolour, polyester, metal, 168 x 56 x 84 cm
Raccoon (Skunk), 1989
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, mixed media, 170 x 62 x 52
Heisenberg Principle, 1989
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, mixed media
Articles 2 and 3 from the 1986 Pinkerton's Agency Manual, 1989
Jimmie Durham
Installation, ceramic, wood, paper, polyester, 132 x 24 x 24 cm
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1989
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, moose skull, wood, antler, paint, metal, 244 x 144 x 137 cm
Footnote, 1989
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, bronze, chain, card, 10 x 31 x 7 cm
Crazy for Life, 1990
Jimmie Durham
Video
Rabbit, 1990
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, skull, shells, wood, paint, text, 51 x 66 x 120 cm
Savage, 1991
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Performance
Untitled (Squirrel), 1991
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, cast head, beads, paint, wood, 127 x 63 x 28 cm
Cortez, 1991
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, metal, wood, pvc, paper, 225 x 145 x 52 cm
Language is a tool for communication like a city or a brain, 1991-1992
Jimmie Durham
Installation, ink, paper, 360 x 510 mm
Untitled, 1991
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, wood, canvas, paint, shells, 150 x 70 x 70 cm
Untitled (Armadillo), 1991
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, cast head, beads, paint, wood, photograph, 125 x 60 x 23 cm
Virginia/Veracruz (Madrid), 1992
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Performance
Virginia/Veracruz (London), 1992
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Performance
Virginia/Veracruz, 1992
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Performance
Approach in Love and Fear, 1992
Jimmie Durham
Installation
Untitled (Amenemope, an Egyptian soldier, 1370 BC), 1992
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, wood, iron, bone, paper, 45 x 30 cm
Untitled, 1992
Jimmie Durham
Mixed Media, brass, mud, glue, wood, 49.2 x 38.4 x 6 cm
Untitled, 1992
Jimmie Durham
Mixed Media, papier mâché, marble dust, wood, 38 x 25 x 11 cm
Untitled (Caliban's Mask), 1992
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, glass eyes, button, mud, pvc pipe, glue, 24 x 16 x 5 cm
I Forgot What I Was Going to Say, 1992
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, wood, metal, bone, paper, wire, 78 x 55 x 5 cm
Die kleine Fulda, 1992
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, pvc pipe, 265 x 20 x 120 cm
Himmelfahrt [Ascension], 1992
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, wood, iron, acrylic, 29 x 55 cm
Treff [Encounter], 1992
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, wood, iron, acrylic paint, 215 x 205 x 107 cm
Jesus. Es geht um die Wurst [Jesus. It's about the Sausage], 1992
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, wood, iron, steel, ink, paper, acrylic, mud, glue, 152 x 40 x 113 cm
Untitled (Zipper), 1993
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, mixed media, 142 x 11 cm
Untitled, 1993
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, painted wood box, bone, glass, 4 x 6 x 10 inch
Untitled, 1993
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, plastic tube, wood, tape, 15 x 28 x 4 inch
ελθων δ΄ εξ ορεος μεϒας αιετος αϒκυλοχειλης πασι κατ΄ αυχενας ηξε και εκτανεν, 1993
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, axe handle, canvas, metal, 19 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/2 inch
mishap in the jungle. The rest of them were mostly Indians: tough young fellows with wiry strength and impassive faces. The whitest, 1993
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, plywood, paper, paint, 6 1/4 x 31 x 1 1/8 inch
Sonderbar kam es mir vor, daß sie diese Übung an einer alten Stadtmauer ohne die mindeste Bequemlichkeit für die Zuschauer vornehmen; warum sie es nicht im Amphitheater tun, wo so schöner Raum wäre!, 1993-2012
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, viewmaster, flood light bulb, 39 x 15 x 15 inch
Types of Murder Weapons, by Maigret, 1993
Jimmie Durham
Mixed Media, wood, metal, pvc, 61 x 61 cm
Types of Pipes, by Magritte, 1993
Jimmie Durham
Mixed Media, wood, metal, pvc, 61 x 61 cm
Gilgamesh, 1993
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, wood, iron, pvc, axe, metal, 355 x 63 cm, 300 x 140 cm
Miscellaneous Ludlow Characters
Jimmie Durham
Collage, ink, paper, canvas, 32.4 x 160.2 cm