Jimmie Durham – a poet, writer and visual artist – has been known as an activist since he became involved in the Native American movement during the 1970s. His sculptures, performances and installations, which are composed of found and recycled materials, are above all ironic attacks on the persistently colonial character of Western culture. Since his work is based on a critical analysis of this culture, and especially of its monumental architecture and its mechanisms of power and control, several of his (filmed) performances appear as subtly provocative comments on social codes and everyday rituals. The stone he casts at the order of things appears as a moment of comic relief within everyday life, an expression of a violent contrast between nature and the manmade world. This stone, which is used to shatter the glider model, is a pure sculptural embodiment of a raw material that cunningly arrests the vertical takeoff of the aircraft, causing it to crash to the ground and transforming it into no more than a broken toy.