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Sky Hopinka: Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer

Festival of Cinematic and Audio Visual Experimentation (CAVE), Minneapolis

January 5, 2019

A monument is a kind of story. It tells the narrative of a place, a time and a people, and it does so from a very particular perspective, just like history books. And just as the veracity of history books suffers from their having been written by those in power, monuments are built by ruling forces. In the innovative two-channel video piece (2018) Sky Hopinka reaches back into a specific facet of Native American history in order to deconstruct it and ultimately offer a more complex version.

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