In conjunction with her MFA thesis show, S? aa Mak, artist Kaila Farrell-Smith (Klamath-Modoc) will be publishing a take-away that features dialogue between Native artists and curators regarding the challenges faced and confronted by Native artists. Publication Release in coalition with collective: ---- > - RISE: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment- That includes a written essay about the concepts, participants, and activation of Indigeneity via a group-making project titled Reclaiming the Drum: A Resistance Project and an interview inspired by This Is Not a Silent Movie symposium with questions and responses from: Deana Dartt, Julie Decker, Sara Siestreem and R.I.S.E. founder Demian Diné Yazhi. Reclaiming the Drum: A Resistance Project Participants ----> Brittany Britton, Toma Villa, Rochelle Kulei, Sam Guerrero, Shirod Younker, Ahchishi Okshulba Brown, Allie Vasquez, @Demian Diné Yazhi, R Toby Linwood, Dustin Harmon, Manny Layers, & Kaila Farrell-Smith. If you in the Portland area, please be sure to check out Kailas Solo Graduate Thesis Exhibition. Kaila Farrell-Smith MK Gallery (2nd Floor PSU Art Building) Exhibition Dates: April 28-May 9, 2014. Public Artist Talk: April 30, 2014 - 6-7pm at Shattuck Hall Annex Opening Reception: May 1, 2014- 4-6pm Exhibition Statement: S? aaMak’s is a combination of drum, painting, and sculpture installations inspired for Indigenous art to reclaim contemporary shifting postcolonial spaces. The work in this exhibit focuses on addressing Indigenous resistance against the engulfment into the weapon of whiteness, by not forgetting or allowing American Indian culture to be usurped and erased. Materials in this installation bridge two paradigms of approach: traditional materials imbued with spiritual and functional utilization engaged with techniques hi-jacked from western european-north american art histories. These dichotomies of traditional American Indian art forms with western influenced mark making techniques stimulate dialogue within an Indigenous:settler/colonizers binary, making transparent violent and beautifully complicated legacies. The event information can be found here: https://facebook/events/225078914355152/
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 00:05:40 +0000
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