Brighter Than the Brightest Star I've Ever Seen, Kite, 2018

Written By Kite .

Description:

Script for experimental lecture, performed with the New Red Order at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2018. The words in italics are taught in Lakota to the audience, who do not know their translations until the final repeated litany. This piece explores the transmission of truth through manipulation.

Artworks:

Brighter than the Brightest Star I’ve Ever Seen, performance, Kite, 2018, 15 minutes. Video, sound, experimental lecture, audiovisual projection.

Brighter than the Brightest Star I’ve Ever Seen, Script, Kite, 2018, 15 minutes. Experimental lecture and poetry.

Brighter than the Brightest Star I’ve Ever Seen, Slideshow, Kite, 2018, 15 minutes. Audiovisual component.

Brighter than the Brightest Star I’ve Ever Seen, Endless acknowledgement, Kite, 2018, 15 minutes. Experimental lecture.

Previews Showings: 

The New Red Order Presents: The Savage Philosophy of Endless Acknowledgement. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018.

The Informants, in collaboration with the New Red Order. Clark Center, December 2019

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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