Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House
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Title
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Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House
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Rights
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© Jeffrey Gibson
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Type
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StillImage
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Creator
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Gibson, Jeffrey, 1972-
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Date
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2020
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Description
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Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House’ serves as an homage to ingenuity of Indigenous North American peoples and cultures, to pre-Columbian Mississippian architecture, and to queer camp aesthetics. Gibson designed the multi-tiered structure to reference the earthen architecture of the ancient metropolis of Cahokia, which was the largest city of the North American Indigenous Mississippian people at its height in the thirteenth century. The earth mound of the pre-Columbian ziggurat is represented in Gibson’s multi-tiered monument with a plywood structure adorned with a vibrant surface of wheat-pasted posters. The posters integrate geometric designs inspired by the Serpent Mound located in Ohio, another monument of the Mississippi Valley, alongside texts that operate as activist slogans. Gibson also curated a series of Indigenous-led performances to activate the structure over the course of the ‘MONUMENTS NOW‘ exhibition.
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Description source
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Format
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image/jpeg
608 × 405 pixels
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Language
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English
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Place
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New York
Socrates Sculpture Park
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Publisher
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Monuments Now exhibition
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Contributor
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Commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park
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Extent
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404 KB
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Identifier
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J.Gibson-art-608x0-c-default
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Subject
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public art
installations (visual works)
Cherokee (culture or style)
Choctaw (culture or style)
Gay art
Indigenous LGBTQ+ people
Native American LGBTQ+ people
Queer art
LGBTQ+ activism
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Temporal Coverage
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2020-2021
