In the Realm of Miracles, 2022

Written By Kite .

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 connection between sickness of the land and sickness of the soul? Kite’s found sculpture, Iyátakunipi kte šni (they will come to nothing), a poorly made taxidermy reveals the mundane horror of human relationships to deer. Ȟuŋwíŋ áyapi is a hide sculpture with beaded forms of rot and decay. Finally, Deerfucker is a video created with various machine learning techniques examining text and images where settler desire for deer veers into horror.

Thank you to Sam Lee Regan

Artworks

Sculpture

Iyátakunipi kte šni (they will come to nothing), Kite, 2022, Installation with taxidermy deer.

Ȟuŋwíŋ áyapi, Kite, 2022, hide sculpture with beadwork.

Video

Deerfucker, Kite, 2022, video created with machine learning techniques https://vimeo.com/737994313 .

Previous Showings

Kite & Natani Notah: In the Realm of Miracles. 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, Oklahoma. August 5 - September 25, 2022.

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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