September 8th, 2017
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
Montréal, Québec
Another Feather In Her Bonnet—a surprise performance by Miss Chief Eagle Testickle and Jean Paul Gaultier, presented at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts—represents the symbolic union of two artists who have come together to challenge ideas of cultural appropriation.
Presented as part of the exhibition Love Is Love – Wedding Bliss for All à la Jean Paul Gaultier.
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Photo by Frédéric Faddoul
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September 8th, 2017
Montréal Museum of Fine Arts
Montréal, Québec
Another Feather In Her Bonnet—a surprise performance by Miss Chief Eagle Testickle and Jean Paul Gaultier, presented at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts—represents the symbolic union of two artists who have come together to challenge ideas of cultural appropriation.
Presented as part of the exhibition Love Is Love – Wedding Bliss for All à la Jean Paul Gaultier.
WATCH the short film produced by CocoFilms Studio
Photo by Frédéric Faddoul
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October 18th, 2013
Denver Art Museum
Denver, Colorado
On October 18th, 2013, celebrity artist, aristocratic socialite and patron of the arts, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, made an official visit to the Modern Wing of the Denver Art Museum. Led on a tour by the institution’s Doctor of Fine Arts, Miss Chief offered compassion, love and warmth to the Modern Wing’s sick and ailing: the Casualties of Modernity.
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
”Miss Chief of Hearts” TAPECODE 672.11
October 18th, 2013
Denver Art Museum
Denver, Colorado
On October 18th, 2013, celebrity artist, aristocratic socialite and patron of the arts, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, made an official visit to the Modern Wing of the Denver Art Museum. Led on a tour by the institution’s Doctor of Fine Arts, Miss Chief offered compassion, love and warmth to the Modern Wing’s sick and ailing: the Casualties of Modernity.
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
”Miss Chief of Hearts” TAPECODE 672.11
Friday February 4th — 2012
Smithsonian’s National Museum of The American Indian
Washington D.C.
Miss Chief Eagle Testickle holds court in a performance at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Introducing her new inclusive nation, the Nation of Miss Chief, she deconstructs issues of blood quantum, race and tribal enrollment.
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.11
Photo by Katherine Fogden, NMAI
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Friday February 4th — 2012
Smithsonian’s National Museum of The American Indian
Washington D.C.
Miss Chief Eagle Testickle holds court in a performance at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Introducing her new inclusive nation, the Nation of Miss Chief, she deconstructs issues of blood quantum, race and tribal enrollment.
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.11
Photo by Katherine Fogden, NMAI
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Friday February 4th — 2012
Smithsonian’s National Museum of The American Indian
Washington D.C.
Miss Chief Eagle Testickle holds court in a performance at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Introducing her new inclusive nation, the Nation of Miss Chief, she deconstructs issues of blood quantum, race and tribal enrollment.
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.11
Photo by Katherine Fogden, NMAI
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Performance by Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon
2010
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto, The Village of Yorkville Park
Iskootāo is the Cree word for fire but also means "woman's heart." In a live performance with sound and light, 650-tonne billion-year-old chunk of the Canadian shield is transformed into the pulsing heart of Mother Earth by Kent Monkman's infamous alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.10
Photo by Michael Awad
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Performance by Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon
2010
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto, The Village of Yorkville Park
Iskootāo is the Cree word for fire but also means "woman's heart." In a live performance with sound and light, 650-tonne billion-year-old chunk of the Canadian shield is transformed into the pulsing heart of Mother Earth by Kent Monkman's infamous alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.10
Photo by Gisèle Gordon
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Performance by Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon
2010
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto, The Village of Yorkville Park
Iskootāo is the Cree word for fire but also means "woman's heart." In a live performance with sound and light, 650-tonne billion-year-old chunk of the Canadian shield is transformed into the pulsing heart of Mother Earth by Kent Monkman's infamous alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.10
Photo by Gisèle Gordon
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Performance by Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon
2010
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto, The Village of Yorkville Park
Iskootāo is the Cree word for fire but also means "woman's heart." In a live performance with sound and light, 650-tonne billion-year-old chunk of the Canadian shield is transformed into the pulsing heart of Mother Earth by Kent Monkman's infamous alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.10
Photo by Michael Awad
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2007
Performance
Hyacinth Gloria Chen Court at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Monkman created Séance in response to being censored from the First People’s Gallery at the ROM during the Shapeshifters, Time Travellers and Storytellers exhibition. In her conversations with the spirits of 19th century painters, Eugene Delacroix, Paul Kane, and George Catlin, Miss Chief’s costumes grow increasingly larger and more outlandish, as the responses of each successive artist draws more of her ire.
Watch the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.09
Photo by Brian Boyle
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2007
Performance
Hyacinth Gloria Chen Court at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Monkman created Séance in response to being censored from the First People’s Gallery at the ROM during the Shapeshifters, Time Travellers and Storytellers exhibition. In her conversations with the spirits of 19th century painters, Eugene Delacroix, Paul Kane, and George Catlin, Miss Chief’s costumes grow increasingly larger and more outlandish, as the responses of each successive artist draws more of her ire.
Watch the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.09
Photo by Brian Boyle
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2007
Performance
Hyacinth Gloria Chen Court at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
Monkman created Séance in response to being censored from the First People’s Gallery at the ROM during the Shapeshifters, Time Travellers and Storytellers exhibition. In her conversations with the spirits of 19th century painters, Eugene Delacroix, Paul Kane, and George Catlin, Miss Chief’s costumes grow increasingly larger and more outlandish, as the responses of each successive artist draws more of her ire.
Watch the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.09
Photo by Jacquie Burke
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2006
Performance
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
Miss Chief swept through MOCCA as the costume, a vacuum contraption, motored over mournful overtures from Gone With the Wind... Ahead of Miss Chief, two young blonde Europeans moved through the gallery to scatter strips of coloured paper around the museum printed with various texts.
Photo by Chris Chapman
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2005
Performance
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Miss Chief recruits two European Males as specimens in her ongoing study of the European male in his natural habitat. Unwittingly she has stumbled upon Robin Hood and Friar Tuck who, after a contest of bows and arrows and a little figure modeling, prove to be more than she can handle.
Photo by John Batten
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.08
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2005
Performance
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Miss Chief recruits two European Males as specimens in her ongoing study of the European male in his natural habitat. Unwittingly she has stumbled upon Robin Hood and Friar Tuck who, after a contest of bows and arrows and a little figure modeling, prove to be more than she can handle.
Photo by John Batten
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.08
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2005
Performance
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Miss Chief recruits two European Males as specimens in her ongoing study of the European male in his natural habitat. Unwittingly she has stumbled upon Robin Hood and Friar Tuck who, after a contest of bows and arrows and a little figure modeling, prove to be more than she can handle.
Photo by John Batten
WATCH the performance documentation via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.08
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2004
Performance
McMichael Canadian Art Gallery
In August 2004, Group of Seven Inches was staged as an occupation of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. In the Founder’s Lounge, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle forced innocent naked white men to become her figure models, finishing off the session by dressing the bewildered men up as more “authentic” examples of the “European male.”
Miss Chief’s text borrowed heavily from the diaries of 19th century painters of “Indians,” George Catlin and Paul Kane, turning their dismissive writings on the “romantic savage” upside down and inside out.
Watch the adapted film via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.03
Photo by Jody Shapiro
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2004
Performance
McMichael Canadian Art Gallery
In August 2004, Group of Seven Inches was staged as an occupation of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. In the Founder’s Lounge, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle forced innocent naked white men to become her figure models, finishing off the session by dressing the bewildered men up as more “authentic” examples of the “European male.”
Miss Chief’s text borrowed heavily from the diaries of 19th century painters of “Indians,” George Catlin and Paul Kane, turning their dismissive writings on the “romantic savage” upside down and inside out.
Watch the adapted film via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.03
Photo by Jody Shapiro
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2004
Performance
McMichael Canadian Art Gallery
In August 2004, Group of Seven Inches was staged as an occupation of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. In the Founder’s Lounge, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle forced innocent naked white men to become her figure models, finishing off the session by dressing the bewildered men up as more “authentic” examples of the “European male.”
Miss Chief’s text borrowed heavily from the diaries of 19th century painters of “Indians,” George Catlin and Paul Kane, turning their dismissive writings on the “romantic savage” upside down and inside out.
Watch the adapted film via Vtape:
TAPECODE 672.03
Photo by Jody Shapiro
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