Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol
Breaking Protocol

Breaking Protocol

Maria Hupfield

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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. The book draws from Hupfield’s “Coffee Break”—a series of conversations held over Zoom during the pandemic, in which Hupfield invited international Indigenous performance artists to discuss their work (from dance to stand-up comedy), who in turn invited other artists to join the conversations. Building on these exchanges, Breaking Protocol centers on Indigenous place-based artistic modes of making and practice to open spaces for reciprocity and multiplicity.

“Building on the Coffee Break sessions, 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.”

—Maria Hupfield

Introduction by Maria Hupfield with written contributions and artworks by Jackson 2bearsPelenakeke BrownKatherine CarlRe’al ChristianChristen CliffordTJ CuthandRaven DavisVanessa Dion FletcherGabrielle L’Hirondelle HillCandice HopkinsAkiko IchikawaUrsula JohnsonKiteCharles KoronehoCarin KuoniTanya Lukin LinklaterCathy MattesPeter MorinMeagan MusseauWanda NanibushArcher PechawisRosanna RaymondSkeena ReeceGeorgiana Uhlyarik, and Charlene Vickers, and reflections on Rebecca BelmoreLori BlondeauDennis Redmoon DarkheemNatalie Diaz, the Dime CollectiveCheryl L’HirondelleJane Schoolcraft, and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory.

Edited by Maria Hupfield with managing editors Re’al Christian and Carin Kuoni
Co-published by Inventory Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, in association with the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands, Arizona State University, November 2023.
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