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    November 2, 2022/Posted by: amin

    Postmodernism Is Not Permission

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    Postmodernism Is Not Permission Suzanne Kite November 2, 2022 Photo: Suzanne Kite, 2022. Making artworks and showing them publicly means entering into critical discourse with the world around us. Colonialism is insidiously perpetuated by artists through artworks, or...
    February 3, 2022/Posted by: amin

    What’s on the Earth Is in the Stars; And What’s in the Stars Is on the Earth: Lakota Relationships with the Stars and American Relationships with the Apocalypse.

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    How is colonialism connected to American relationships with extraterrestrial beings? This commentary analyzes contemporary and founding US mythologies as constant, calculated attempts for settlers to obtain indigeneity in this land stemming from a fear...
    February 3, 2022/Posted by: amin

    LA Birdwatchers

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    LA Birdwatchers, in collaboration with Aljumaine Gayle, Ladan Mohamed Siad, and Nicolas Shapiro, 2021. “LA Birdwatchers — comprised of artist Suzanne Kite, technologist Ladan Mohamed Siad, designer Aljumaine Gayle, UCLA anthropologist Nick Shapiro, and mapper...
    February 3, 2022/Posted by: amin

    stones make birds make stones

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    stones make birds make stones, (inyan/zintkala/inyan kagapi), Storm King, 2020 This piece was commissioned for the project Return to the Field which began as an invitation to consider questions of environment, affect, and mapping emotional...
    February 3, 2022/Posted by: amin

    Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ (Fifteen Maps)

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    Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ (Fifteen Maps), 2021, Kite. Monitor, PC, Speakers, Printout.Kite’s work examines how artificial intelligence often reproduces the logics of coloniality: inheriting the structure of colonial knowledge systems, AI can flatten land, people, and...
    February 3, 2022/Posted by: amin

    Take Care, My Boy

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    Take Care, My Boy, 2021, 18 minutes, Kite. Hair-braid interface, bottle of mezcal, field recordings. A newly developed A.I. hair-braid interface performance, created with a collage of text and field recordings taken over the past...
    February 3, 2022/Posted by: amin

    Iron Road

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    Iron Road, Kite in collaboration with Corey Stover and Becky Red Bow, 2021. Mixed media installation (Video, stones, drone).“In Kite’s installation Iron Road (a collaboration with Corey Stover and Becky Red Bow), a recording...
    February 3, 2022/Posted by: amin

    Fever Dream

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    Fever Dream, Kite and Devin Ronneberg, 2021 Short film and Interactive multimedia installation (television, projector, LIDAR detector, digital video)Fever Dream is an interactive multimedia installation and short film by Devin Ronneberg and Kite. Devin Ronneberg...
    February 3, 2022/Posted by: amin

    Three Diffractions of LA

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    Three Diffractions of LA, Kite, 2020I have been trying to make an artwork about Los Angeles since 2014. But I can only see National Boulevard through a kaleidoscope and my blood runs cold when I...
    April 6, 2021/Posted by: amin

    Wichahpih’a

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    Wichahpih'a (a clear night with a star-filled sky or a starlit night), score for improvising musician, silver thread on blue satin or screen printed, 2 ft x 2 ft, Kite,...
    April 6, 2021/Posted by: amin

    Aǧúyabskuyela

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    "How do I learn to mourn? How do our relatives support our mourning?" This performance and sculpture series involves decorating funerary cakes while calling friends, relatives, and kin to talk about feeding others at funerals...
    February 3, 2021/Posted by: amin

    Practising the Unattainable

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    INTERVIEWS / MARCH 11, 2021 Practising the Unattainable Indigenous dream-world data, temporal spirals and technologies to come—a poet and performer talks to an artist and composer about transformative ways of tuning...
    October 10, 2018/Posted by: amin

    About

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    Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an award winning Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, composer and academic raised in Southern California, known for her sound and video performance with her Machine Learning hair-braid interface....
    October 30, 2013/Posted by: amin

    omega

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    omega is a performed sound, video, and tactile project with seven pieces   rocks: The first piece in the omega project, ‘rocks’, develops a direct connection between counting and infinity. While ‘white noise’ gains its...
    November 1, 2012/Posted by: amin

    Music

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    Compilation002: Stillness is Resistance by Mel Elberg, KITE ile by...