Iron Road, 2021

Written By Kite .

In collaboration with Becky Red Bow and Corey Stover

“In Kite’s installation Iron Road (a collaboration with Corey Stover and Becky Red Bow), a recording of family conversations can be heard. Gentle drone footage of some place I suspect the artist calls home plays on a screen on the floor, prompting me to bow my head slightly as I listen to the audio. A collection of small stones sits a few feet away from the video, carefully arranged into a geometric motif. The audio recounts stories of dreams and stones significant to the artist’s family. Part of the narrative involves Kite’s great-great grandmother escaping the Wounded Knee massacre on foot and finding safety through shared language when another person speaks to her in Lakotah.”
— Adrienne Huard

Iron Road, Kite in collaboration with Corey Stover and Becky Red Bow, 2021.

Mixed media installation.

Image by Bronwyn Lutz-Greenhow

Iron Road, in collaboration with Corey Stover and Becky Red Bow, presented at Tinworks Art in 2023. Photo documentation by Ryan Parker

Previous Showings

“Invisible Prairies: Sensing and Sounding the Plains,” Tinworks Art, July 8 - October 14, 2023. Bozeman, Montana.

“When Veins Meet Like Rivers; ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖅ / okhížata / maadawaan.” Plug In ICA, August 21 - December 17, 2021. Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Press/Reviews

Muñoz Gómez, Mariana. “When Veins Meet Like Rivers; ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖅ / okhížata / maadawaan.” Plug In ICA, August 21 - December 17, 2021. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Akimblog Post.

Kerr, Kitty. “The Plurality of Meaning: innovative art exhibit explores the complexities of convergences and divergence.” The Manitoban. October 6, 2021.

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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