In this exhibition, Kite’s body of artwork focuses on settlers’ desire for Indigeneity through disturbed relationships to hunting nonhumans. How are relationships to the land formed without understandings of ancient cosmologyscapes? What is the...
- Academic
- AI
- Audio
- Braids
- Carbon Fiber
- Collaboration
- Commission
- Death
- Gallery
- Geology
- Installation
- Lecture
- Machine Learning
- Magazine Article
- Movement
- Nonhuman
- Paranormal
- Peer Reviewed
- Performance
- Poetry
- Scores
- Sculpture
- Sound
- Stones
- Video
- Wearables
- Writing
Collaboration begins with a text by Kristopher Rindon Johnson based on his childhood experiences on Pimuu (Catalina Island). Johnson reached out to Kite, who also had childhood memories of Pimuu, and Kite and Johnson...
Suzanne Kite, Alisha B. Wormsley. (2021). An Invitation for Black and Indigenous Artists to Dream. C Magazine Issue 149: Community.
This magazine article focuses on a workshop given by Suzanne Kite and Alisha B. Wormsley...
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...
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...
uŋȟčéla wílečhala, for Nathan Young (Waxing Crescent Peyote Moon), 2020
Silver thread and beads on black leather 39 × 33 1/2 in. (99.06 × 85.09...
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...
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road), an exhibition and performance by Oglála Lakȟóta artist Suzanne Kite as the culmination of the artist’s year-long...
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...
The Last of the Lemurians, in collaboration with New Red Order, 2021
For a short period in 1999, the Archæoraptor was believed to be the missing link between birds and non-avian dinosaurs. During a National...
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...
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...
Tho Win (Blue Woman) #1, Silver Thread on Blue Leather 4 ft x 4...
Thehpi Chapcheyazala Wakhan (Unknowable Black Currant Hide) #1, Conductive Thread and Silver Thread on Black Leather, 3 ft x 3 ft score for improvising musician, Kite,...
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Otakiya Thehpi Chapcheyazala (Black Currant Hide Manyfold)</em>, Silver Thread on Black Leather, 3 ft x 3 ft (star filled sky or a starlit night), score for improvising musician, Kite,...
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,...
In this sculpture, the gallery walls, ceiling, and floors interrupt the physical space of a three-dimensional cube of United States Geologic Service survey data. The walls cut the sculpture into smaller and smaller parts,...
"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...
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...
The Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems.
The working group is interested the following questions:
From an...
Pȟehíŋ kiŋ líla akhíšoke. (Her hair was heavy.) is a new work by Oglala Lakȟóta artist, Kite, which builds on her hair-braid interfaces and new research into AI-generated text. The hair-braid interface is a...
Eadweard Muybridge: Human and Animal Locomotion, with a Live Score by Kite and Devin Ronneberg from KITE on...
People You Must Look At Me by...
People listen close, I whisper
People listen close, I whisper
The rock speaks beyond hearing
People listen close, I whisper
Hear me, I have something to say
Hear me, I have something to say
Only to those who listen
Hear me,...
"Good evening. Thank you for having me. I wanted to present part of my current research strain and it will be a complete left turn from the presentation so far. Recently I published a...
Great White Way
Duet on Mellotron
Ghost River
Text on screen:
“most rivers are haunted
entities attracted to the death energies
a constant flow of tranpsort
from and to
a single white horse
on a ghost river into our ears”
Unamplified viola
Score #1
Score
Improvised video...
Listener, Performance, Kite, 2018. 15-28 minutes.
Includes floor projections, audio channels, Hair-Braid interface. Adaptable for any space or online. This work has been staged with one project and installed TVs, one projector pointed at the...
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