Wóaič’ibleze (Self-Reflection), 2023

Written By Kite .

Description

“Prayed to by Lakota midwives, To Win ‘Blue Woman’ is a spirit who inhabits around the hole in the Big Dipper. To Win (or Ton Win, ‘birth woman’) is called on to aid women in labor, easing the pain of childbirth. ‘Blue Woman’ also assists the spirits of newly deceased humans in being born back through the hole into the spirit world.” - Goodman, Lakota Star Knowledge

Artworks

Wóaič’ibleze (Self-Reflection), 2023

Video, installation

Duration: 1:20 min. (looped)

Previous Showings

“ArtNow: The Soul is a Wanderer,” Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, June 22, 2023 - January 15, 2024.

Kite .

Kite (Dr. Suzanne Kite) is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition,and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal. Kite’s scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakȟóta ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Recently, Kite has been developing body interfaces for machine learning driven performance and sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Kite has published in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), with the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis. Kite is currently a 2023 Creative Capital Award Winner, 2023 USA Fellow, and a 2022-2023 Creative Time Open Call artist with Alisha B. Wormsley. Kite is currently Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies, Bard College and a Research Associate and Residency Coordinator for the Abundant Intelligences (Indigenous AI) project.

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