EXHIBIT: Ce Tempoxcalli and Intermedia Arts present
Dimensions of Indigenous &
Cultural Identity Politics
Curated by Electric Machete Studios
Featuring work by Gordon Coons, Ojibwa, Lac Courte Oreilles
& Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra, Xinka-Lenca, El Salvador
November 28, 2016 - February 4, 2017
Opening Reception: November 28 | 5:30PM
Storytelling Bus + Talking Circle: January 29 | 3PM
Dimensions of Indigenous & Cultural Identity Politics is the latest installation of the semi-annual all nations art exhibition series Dimensions of Indigenous that began in 2005. This year's exhibition, curated by Electric Machete Studios, takes on some deep and intriguing questions:
How do we unite Indigenous people of the four directions...?
Who can claim to be Indigenous...?
How does the current tension around immigration impact this conversation...?
In a stripped-down version of the exhibition, curators Gordon Coons (Ojibwa, Lac Courte Oreilles) and Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra (Xinka-Lenca, El Salvador) explore dimensions of Indigeneity through an intimate view of their practice. In conversation with one another, their installation work explores Indigenous cultural identity politics through the modern expression of color and paper cuttings.
"The impacts of colonization can still be felt today in our communities, manifesting in different but similarly meaningful ways for Indigenous Peoples living in the Midwest. The tension, distrust, and trauma from generations of relocation, cultural appropriation, assimilation and genocide make unity difficult for those who have survived."
- Co-Curator Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra.
"Further, divide and conquer tactics such as tribal enrollment, blood quantum, and erasure add to the tensions that have built up onto the invisible barriers of colonial thinking that keep our communities divided."
- Co-curator Gordon Coons
Opening November 28 and remaining on view through February 4, Dimensions of Indigenous & Cultural Identity Politics offers multiple touch-points for community members to enter into conversation:
Opening Reception
November 28 | Monday | 5;30PM
Join us to connect with the artists in the gallery and hear about their work, in collaboration with the #sayhername performance which opens that same evening.
Storytelling Bus + Talking Circle:
Dimensions of Indigeneity in Minnesota
January 29, 2017 | 3-5PM
A Storytelling Bus will pick you up at locations around the Twin Cities. Travel to the Talking Circle and Potluck feast while listening to and sharing stories. Jessica Lopez Lyman, PhD and Ashley Fairbanks, White Earth Nation, moderate a talking circle with a diverse panel of artists, educators, and cultural community organizers. In a poignant conversation, we will get honest about dimensions of Indigeneity and cultural identity politics as it relates to our shared liberation. Co-presented with the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Ce Tempoxcalli, Electric Machete Studios, and The Ordway.
ABOUT DIMENSIONS OF INDIGENOUS
The semi-annual all nations art exhibition series, Dimensions of Indigenous, originated with Los Nativos, a local Rhymesayers Chicano hip hop group, in 2003. Los Nativos, who hosts the Anti-Columbus Day concert, featured Indigenous artists of the North and South as a way for Chicano artists to carve out a space for the counter-narrative as Indigenous identified Chicano artists and for nation-bridging as a Native arts community in the Twin Cities. Innovative for it's time, the art portion soon outgrew the small concert venue in the 7th Street Entry and Dimensions of Indigenous, the art exhibition series was birthed in 2005. With a mission of uniting Indigenous artists of the 4 directions around common themes of Decolonization, Identity, Resistance, & Survival, Dimensions of the Indigenous has featured artists from over 25 first nations and planted the seeds for cross-continental understanding as Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Today, as more and more work continues to emerge around this theme, Dimensions of Indigenous evolves into deeper and more specific themes around Cultural Identity Politics and the invisible barriers of colonial thinking that keep our communities divided.
Dimensions of Indigenous &
Cultural Identity Politics
Curated by Electric Machete Studios
Featuring work by Gordon Coons, Ojibwa, Lac Courte Oreilles
& Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra, Xinka-Lenca, El Salvador
November 28, 2016 - February 4, 2017
Opening Reception: November 28 | 5:30PM
Storytelling Bus + Talking Circle: January 29 | 3PM
Dimensions of Indigenous & Cultural Identity Politics is the latest installation of the semi-annual all nations art exhibition series Dimensions of Indigenous that began in 2005. This year's exhibition, curated by Electric Machete Studios, takes on some deep and intriguing questions:
How do we unite Indigenous people of the four directions...?
Who can claim to be Indigenous...?
How does the current tension around immigration impact this conversation...?
In a stripped-down version of the exhibition, curators Gordon Coons (Ojibwa, Lac Courte Oreilles) and Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra (Xinka-Lenca, El Salvador) explore dimensions of Indigeneity through an intimate view of their practice. In conversation with one another, their installation work explores Indigenous cultural identity politics through the modern expression of color and paper cuttings.
"The impacts of colonization can still be felt today in our communities, manifesting in different but similarly meaningful ways for Indigenous Peoples living in the Midwest. The tension, distrust, and trauma from generations of relocation, cultural appropriation, assimilation and genocide make unity difficult for those who have survived."
- Co-Curator Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra.
"Further, divide and conquer tactics such as tribal enrollment, blood quantum, and erasure add to the tensions that have built up onto the invisible barriers of colonial thinking that keep our communities divided."
- Co-curator Gordon Coons
Opening November 28 and remaining on view through February 4, Dimensions of Indigenous & Cultural Identity Politics offers multiple touch-points for community members to enter into conversation:
Opening Reception
November 28 | Monday | 5;30PM
Join us to connect with the artists in the gallery and hear about their work, in collaboration with the #sayhername performance which opens that same evening.
Storytelling Bus + Talking Circle:
Dimensions of Indigeneity in Minnesota
January 29, 2017 | 3-5PM
A Storytelling Bus will pick you up at locations around the Twin Cities. Travel to the Talking Circle and Potluck feast while listening to and sharing stories. Jessica Lopez Lyman, PhD and Ashley Fairbanks, White Earth Nation, moderate a talking circle with a diverse panel of artists, educators, and cultural community organizers. In a poignant conversation, we will get honest about dimensions of Indigeneity and cultural identity politics as it relates to our shared liberation. Co-presented with the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota, Ce Tempoxcalli, Electric Machete Studios, and The Ordway.
ABOUT DIMENSIONS OF INDIGENOUS
The semi-annual all nations art exhibition series, Dimensions of Indigenous, originated with Los Nativos, a local Rhymesayers Chicano hip hop group, in 2003. Los Nativos, who hosts the Anti-Columbus Day concert, featured Indigenous artists of the North and South as a way for Chicano artists to carve out a space for the counter-narrative as Indigenous identified Chicano artists and for nation-bridging as a Native arts community in the Twin Cities. Innovative for it's time, the art portion soon outgrew the small concert venue in the 7th Street Entry and Dimensions of Indigenous, the art exhibition series was birthed in 2005. With a mission of uniting Indigenous artists of the 4 directions around common themes of Decolonization, Identity, Resistance, & Survival, Dimensions of the Indigenous has featured artists from over 25 first nations and planted the seeds for cross-continental understanding as Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Today, as more and more work continues to emerge around this theme, Dimensions of Indigenous evolves into deeper and more specific themes around Cultural Identity Politics and the invisible barriers of colonial thinking that keep our communities divided.
Exhibit: SUGAR & PAPER
Oct. 2-Nov. 1, 2015
Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar
Lowertown St. Paul
Opening reception
Fri. Oct. 2, 2015, 5-7pm
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Sugar & Paper is a solo exhibition by Rebekah Crisanta and an exploration of the materials of Day of the Dead art.
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pop-up Gallery: july 25, 2015 3-8pm
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Electric Machete Studios & Gallery
777 Smith Ave. St. Paul MN 55107 http://wsco.org |
knIght Arts Challenge finalists announced! |
electric Machete Studios @ st paul art Crawl
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Open Studio Art Party -Friday April 24th, 7-9pm
Refreshments & Music by the MN Flute Project Suggested donation $5 ACVR Warehouse Electric Machete Studios 106 w. Water st., 5th floor St. Paul mn 55107 |
St. Paul Art Crawl
Friday - Sunday April 24th, 25th, & 26th 2015 |
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Access, preservation, & revitalizatIon of traditional ArtsThe MN Flute Project is a folk arts apprenticeship program for the revitalization of Pre-Columbian ceramic instruments and music.
Made possible with a generous Minnesota State Arts Board Folk & Traditional Arts Grant. |
stations of the Cross Studio reception -
april 5th, 5-7 pm
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KFAI - 90.3 FM Minneapolis - 106.7 FM St. Paul - Pachamama Radiokfai.org - Pachamama Radio with co-hosts IluiAtzin and Rebekah Crisanta & special guest poet Teresa Ortiz.
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exhibit: dec. 2 - jan. 30 2015
