Tȟaŋmáhel, 2022
Description
Kite composes a ‘visual score’ – a form of experimental music notation – entailing symbolic forms that performers and musicians can read and interpret. Deriving ideologies from traditional Lakȟóta artmaking, as seen in their quillwork and beadwork, these processes of visual score-reading are reflected in their geometric designs and translated from the aftermath of a waking or sleeping dream. Similarly to reading and writing music, these designs communicate concepts without verbal language, becoming a semiotic language, a language of symbols that do not have to be explained. Like stories, their meaning changes over time and develops over a lifetime, no longer confined to its original interpretation. Creating a dream narrative from a collection of visions re-enacted through videos, the performance, Tȟaŋmáhel, will assign visions to symbols and weave a complete graphic score into being.
Artworks
Kite, Tȟaŋmáhel, 2022, experimental lecture and performance, including visual score and experimental music notation.
Previous Showings
“Skill Futures - Tȟaŋmáhel”, Live Lecture and Performance online, Singapore Art Museum, September 28, 2022.
“Art Now: The Soul is a Wanderer,” Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, performance, September 28, 2023.