Futuristic Native Outfits for Night Raids (and other paraphernalia) a 911 windows installation by James Luna art installation: Futuristic Native Outfits for Night Raids (and other paraphernalia) March 30 - May 7, 2000 Opening Night Screening & Lecture: Thursday, March 30, 8:00 pm 911 Media Arts Center, 117 Yale Ave North, Seattle, WA Phone (206) 682-6552 911 Media Arts Center is proud to present the work of artist James Luna for our Windows Installation and Screening programs. Luna, a Luiseņo Indian from the La Jolla Indian Reservation, is a nationally renowned multi-media artist working in performance, installation, photography, video and sculpture. On March 30, we will screen the Seattle premiere of Bringing It All Back Home, a film written by Luna and directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals). Luna will introduce the film with a "performative lecture" and discuss the film with the audience. From March 30th through May 7th, we will also display an installation by James Luna, Futuristic Native Outfits for Night Raids (and other paraphernalia) in our storefront windows space. Luna’s installation at 911, Futuristic Native Outfits for Night Raids (and other paraphernalia), showcases examples of costumes and objects that serve as both props and objects in Luna’s performances and installations. These works represent Luna’s investigation of cross cultural conflict and similarities in contemporary American society, which he presents with his customary irony and humor. Luna intends to produce work with a conceptual anthropological look and feel in order to bring into question the notion of cultural authenticity by the established expertise of academics and institutions. His installations have been described as transforming gallery spaces into battlefields, where the audience is confronted with the nature of cultural identity, the tensions generated by cultural isolation, and the dangers of cultural misinterpretation -- all from a Native perspective. As Luna states, "It is my feeling that artwork in the medium of performance and installation offers an opportunity like no other for Indian people to express themselves in traditional art forms like ceremony, dance, oral traditions and contemporary thought, without compromise." James Luna will be participating as an Artist in Residence at Cornish College for the Arts March 27 - 31. Ongoing since 1984, 911 Media Arts Center’s Windows exhibition program continues to offer area artists a unique installation opportunity in five large storefront windows facing a major intersection at 117 Yale Avenue North (one block south of the flagship REI building). 911’s Windows program is supported in part through a grant from PONCHO.