Performance Action at Whitney Museum

  • Indigenous Womxn’s Collective
Indigenous Womxn’s Collective members Maria Hupfield and Regan de Loggans in a performance action at Whitney Museum, New York, 15 May 2019. Courtesy Maria Hupfield.

In their performative action at the Whitney Museum, Indigenous Womxn’s Collective state:

“We, as Indigenous womxn and femme nonbinary people, are making a stand against the continued violent oppression of brown bodies and communities. By not removing Warren Kanders from his position on the museum board, the Whitney is in allyship with white supremacy and genocidal settler colonialism. We are in opposition, as Native artists, curators, and community members, to the continued ‘profit over people’ mentality. Indigenous people and other people of color are violently under attack by Warren Kanders’ manufactured weapons of terrorism. You, the Whitney, is harboring a terrorist who profits from violence against brown bodies. You want our art, but not our people.”



Indigenous Womxn’s Collective (now known as The Indigenous Kinship Collective: New York City) is a community who gathers on Lenni Lenape, Algonquin, and Haudenosaunee land to honour themselves and their relatives through art, activism, and education. The Collective, as matriarchs and knowledge keepers, centre their intersectional narratives by practicing accountability and self-determination. They are defined by those who came before them and those to come. The Whitney Biennial performance action reproduced in this broadsheet was executed by Maria Hupfield and Regan de Loggans.

Regan de Loggans is an Art Historian and Anthropologist specializing in Fashion and Textile history and criticism, currently working as the American Art Curatorial Fellow at Peabody Essex Museum.

Maria Hupfield is a maker, a mover, a connector, and an Anishinaabe-kwe of Wasauksing First Nation. She is also an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Digital Arts and Performance at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

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