In the fall of 2021 Casey and Rae rode their not always steady steeds into and around Schaconage, Great Smoky Mountain National Park. They rode to claim the land, to make a spectacle of the act of claiming, to shine a spot light on this land that was inhabited by indigenous people for 12,000 years before white Europeans claimed it as their own and killed so many in this theft. This work was shown during Satellite Art Show December 2021, curated by Quinn Dukes.
Here is the performance for the camera video, Winds of Ancestry: Grab Schaconage (The Great Smoky Mountain National Park): vimeo.com/637917933
In the summer of 2016 Casey McGuire and Rae Goodwin rode their red rocking horses across this grand nation. They followed the Lewis and Clark Trail to Montana and stopped along the way to memorialize their foremothers and to acknowledge the fleeting winds of ancestry. This performance project and the resulting artifacts are created in collaboration or conversation with American history, its male heroes, their expeditions and their romanticized memorials. We question the nature of expedition, ownership and tourism. We question Manifest Destiny, our cultural perceptions of bravery and the stereotypes around American pride. We also acknowledge all those who traveled before, with and after Lewis and Clark, all the women, the slaves, the children, the animals, the soldiers.
The first installation with video, performance and ephemera was in 2017 at the Overbrook Gallery in Michigan.
here is a sample of the video: https://vimeo.com/208844511
and some press about the show: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2017/01/women_ride_rocking_horses_on_l.html
Here is the performance for the camera video, Winds of Ancestry: Grab Schaconage (The Great Smoky Mountain National Park): vimeo.com/637917933
In the summer of 2016 Casey McGuire and Rae Goodwin rode their red rocking horses across this grand nation. They followed the Lewis and Clark Trail to Montana and stopped along the way to memorialize their foremothers and to acknowledge the fleeting winds of ancestry. This performance project and the resulting artifacts are created in collaboration or conversation with American history, its male heroes, their expeditions and their romanticized memorials. We question the nature of expedition, ownership and tourism. We question Manifest Destiny, our cultural perceptions of bravery and the stereotypes around American pride. We also acknowledge all those who traveled before, with and after Lewis and Clark, all the women, the slaves, the children, the animals, the soldiers.
The first installation with video, performance and ephemera was in 2017 at the Overbrook Gallery in Michigan.
here is a sample of the video: https://vimeo.com/208844511
and some press about the show: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2017/01/women_ride_rocking_horses_on_l.html
