User:ImogenClendinning/sandbox

Dayna Danger
Dayna Danger is a 2Spirit/Queer, Metis/Saulteaux/Polish visual artist, who uses photography, sculpture, performance to create works which call into question the line between empowerment and objectification through reclaiming space. Danger uses BDSM and beaded leather fetish masks in her practice, exploring the connection between dynamics of sexuality, gender, and power in both a feminist and consensual approach. Danger currently serves as a board member for the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC/CCA). She is currently based in Tio'tia:ke.

Work
Danger's work addresses the problematic nature of the colonial-heteropatriarchal gaze, and the censorship of a settler viewer gaze which often encompasses a sexualized voyeurism.

Big'Uns
In the Big'Uns series, Danger photographs transgender and gender non-conforming bodies with the purpose of representing bodies that are often stigmatized. The 15 photograph series features volunteers from the Edmonton region, shot while covered in baby oil and donning strap-on antlers. In the series Danger challenges themes of intimacy, gender and sexuality to frame art as a space of survivance for Indigenous peoples, and an arena to take back power for women and gender-nonconforming people in Indigenous communities.

Exhibitions

 * Big'Uns. Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver (2017)
 * Big'Uns. Latitude 53, Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective. Edmonton (2017)
 * Disrupt Archive: Dayna Danger and Cecilia Kavara Verran. La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal (2016)


 * Ignition 9. Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal (2013)