M:ST 4 Artists
Adrian Stimson (Saskatoon)
Buffalo Boy’s Battle of Little Bighorny
Performance
Presented by TRUCK
Sun Oct 11, 2:30 PM
Boris Roubakine Recital Hall, University of Calgary
Sporting fishnet stockings, a bison g-string, and a buffalo corset, Adrian Stimson’s alter-ego Buffalo Boy returns to make his final stand. In a video and live performance that loosely imitates the film Little Big Man and Buffalo Bill’s theatrical Wild West shows, Stimson recreates the famous Battle of Little Bighorn in which U.S. Colonel Custer was finally defeated by the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne tribes in southeastern Montana during the infamous “Indian Wars.” Playing both the characters of Custer and The Shaman Exterminator who kills him, this is Buffalo Boy’s last performance as he is known today.
Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in Southern Alberta. He is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, writer, and curator who has presented his work both nationally and internationally. Stimson was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003 and the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 for his activism in human rights and diversity.
An exhibition of Stimson’s work can be found in TRUCK’s main exhibition space from October 10 to November 8, 2008.
Adrian Stimson
Buffalo Boy’s Battle of Little Bighorny
Photos: Rebecca Rowley
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