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Maker(s):Hopinka, Sky
Culture:Native American; Ho-Chunk/Pechanga (1984-)
Title:Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer
Date Made:2019
Type:Time-based Media
Materials:two-channel video
Measurements:TRT: 13:15
Accession Number:  SC 2020.3.1
Credit Line:Purchased with funds from the Contemporary Associates, Smith College Museum of Art
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Currently on view

Description:
Two-channel video installation filmed at Fort Marion (Castillo de San Marcos) in St. Augustine and in archives that layers text over moving images and incorporates voiceovers to narrate the escape of Seminole Chieftain Coacoochee from the fort; image and sound are distorted at particular moments. At times, archival documents, including drawings by prisoners, are shown in thier plastic sleeves on a table.

Tags:
installations; video art; landscapes; seas; colonialism; prisons; archives; stories; memory; indigenous people

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