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...
- 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
In the Realm of Miracles
AI + Commission + Death + Installation + Machine Learning + Nonhuman + Paranormal + Sculpture + Video + WritingIn 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
Listener
AI + Audio + Braids + Commission + Installation + Machine Learning + Movement + Nonhuman + Performance + Poetry + Scores + Sculpture + Sound + Video + Wearables + WritingListener, 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...
Everything I Say Is True
Commission + Gallery + Installation + Performance + Poetry + Sculpture + Sound + Video + Writing...
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