The Quincentenary Project
One hundred charred tipi skeletal frames and over thirty historic markers placed alongside the City and County Building and State Capitol in Civic Center Park in downtown Denver, Colorado, from October 10-12, 1992. The Quincentenary Project was a collaboration with Dave Greenlund, the American Indian Movement of Colorado, and the Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics at the University of Colorado at Denver. The Quincentenary Project was reviewed by CNN, USA Today, AP, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, High Performance, Public Art Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Z Magazine. Video by Lori Windle.
“I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. I know too that the powerful fear art, whatever its form, when it does this, and that amongst the people such art sometimes runs like a rumour and a legend because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities cannote, a sense that unites us, for it is inseparable from a justice at last. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honour.”
–John Berger
