# Jimmie Durham

Jimmie Durham (Houston, 10 de juliol de 1940 - Berlín, 17 de novembre de 2021) va ser un artista estatunidenc amb un presumpte origen cherokee (denegat pels representants tribals) que destaca pel seu activisme a favor de la causa índia i dels drets civils. Fill d'una família d'escultors, ha estat alhora un artista pluridisciplinari i activista polític. Es graduà en Belles Arts el 1972 a Ginebra, i també ha estat membre portaveu de l'American Indian Movement (AIM) i de l'International Indian Treaty Commitee (IITC), càrrec des del qual ha estat implicat en totes les lluites dels indis per a preservar el dret a la seva terra.
El 1994 s'instal·la a Europa, des d'on ha seguit conreant un projecte de gran llibertat creativa que interpel·la directament la cultura i el llegat humans. La seva proposta traspassa les categories artístiques, històriques i contemporànies, i desafia els fonaments i els sistemes jeràrquics de l'art i el poder.
Ha escrit Certain Lack of Coherence: Writings on Art and Cultural Politics (1993), Columbus day (1993) i el manifest We the people (1987).

## Referències

* ↑ Prieto, Imma. Jimmie Durham. Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró, 2015.

## Bibliografia

* Durham, Jimmie. (1983) Columbus Day. Albuquerque, New Mexico: West End Press.
* Durham, Jimmie. (1992) 'Geronimo!', Partial Recall: Photos of Native North Americans. Lucy R. Lippard, ed. New York: The New Press. pp. 55–58.
* de Baere, Bart. (1992) Will/Power. Ohio: Wexner Center for the Arts.
* Durham, Jimmie. (1993) A Certain Lack of Coherence: Writings on Art and Cultural Politics. Jean Fisher, ed., London: Kala Press.
* Shiff, Richard. (1992) 'The Necessity of Jimmie Durham’s Jokes', Art Journal. vol. 51, no. 3. pp. 74–80.
* Lippard, Lucy. (1993) 'Jimmie Durham: Postmodernist Savage', Art In America vol. 81, no. 2, February. pp. 62–69.
* Durham, Jimmie. (1993) Jimmie Durham: My Book, The East London Coelacanth. London: ICA Book Works.
* Durham, Jimmie. (1994) 'Jimmie Durham: Interviewed by Mark Gisbourne', Art Monthly February. 173. pp. 7–11.
* Durham, Jimmie. (1995) 'Attending to Words and Bones: An Interview with Jean Fisher', Art and Design. vol. 10, nos. pp. 7–8. 47-55.
* Canning, Susan. (1995) 'Jimmie Durham', The New Art Examiner. vol. 23, no. 2. pp. 31–35.
* Mulvey, Laura, Dirk Snauwaert, and Mark Alice Durant. (1995) Jimmie Durham. London: Phaidon Press.
* Durham, Jimmie. (1996) Eurasian Project, Stage One: La porte de l'Europe (Les Bourgeois de Calais, La Leon d'Anatomie. A Progress Report). Champagne-Ardenne, Calais, Anvers: Le College Editions, Galerie de l' Ancienne Poste, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer.
* Durham, Jimmie. (1996) Der Verführer und der Steinerne Gast. Vienna: Springer Verlag
* Durham, Jimmie. (1998) Jimmie Durham: Between the Furniture and the Building (Between a Rock and a Hard Place). Múnic: Kunstverein München.
* Durham, Jimmie. (1998) "The Centre of the World is Several Places (Parts I & II)." Interview by Beverly Koski and Richard William Hill (Berlin, February 1998). FUSE Magazine vol. 21, nos. 3 & 4, 1998. pp. 24–33 & 46-53, respectively.
* Durham, Jimmie. (2001) Stone Heart. Kitakyushu, Japan: Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu.
* Durham, Jimmie. (2001). 'Belief in Europe', in S. Hassan & I. Dadi (eds.). Unpacking Europe. Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen/Nai Publishers, pp. 290–293.
* Durham, Jimmie. (2004). 'Situations', in C. Doherty (ed.). Contemporary Art: from Studio to Situation. London: Black Dog Publishing, pp. 177–183
* Durham, Jimmie. (2004). 'Stones Rejected by the Builder', in G. Di Pietrantonio, et al.. Jimmie Durham. Milan: Charta, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, pp. 117–130.
* Taussig, Michael. (2004) 'Jimmie Durham', On Reason And Emotion: Biennale of Sydney 2004, Isabel Carlos, ed. Sydney: Biennale of Sydney Ltd. pp. 82–85.
* Durham, Jimmie. (2005) The Second Particle Wave Theory. As Performed on the Banks of the River Wear, a Stone’s Throw from S'Underland and the Durham Cathedral. Sunderland, UK/ Banff: University of Sunderland/Walter Phillips Gallery.
* Durham, Jimmie. (2005) 'Various Element of Cowboy Life' & 'Cherokee-US Relations' The American West. Compton Verney, Warwickshire: Compton Verney House Trust. pp. 9–22 & 51-59 respectively.
* Robecchi, Michele. (2006) 'Jimmie Durham', Contemporary. vol. 5, no. 89. pp. 52–55.
* Bossé, Laurence, et al. (2009) Jimmie Durham. Pierre Rejetées.... Paris: Paris Musées. ISBN 978-2-7596-0084-7
* Appleford, Rob. (2010) "Jimmie Durham and the Carpentry of Ambivalence," Social Text 28(4): 91-111. doi:10.1215/01642472-2010-012
* Durham, Jimmie. (2011). Amoxohtli/Libro de Carretera/A Road Book. Köln: Walther König.