For Zitkála Šá Series (For Suzanne Kite) by Raven Chacon 

Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ
(Fifteen Maps), part of Light Work's Urban Video Project.

April 7 - June 11, 2022

Urban Video Project (UVP) presents Kite: Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ (Fifteen Maps). The installation will be on view from April 7 – June 25, 2022, at UVP’s outdoor projection site on the north facade of the Everson Museum of Art at 401 Harrison Street, Thursday through Saturday, from dusk until 11 p.m. This new work was commissioned by Light Work for exhibition at UVP.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Kite will present the experimental lecture, What‘s on the earth is in the stars; and what’s in the stars is on the earth as both an in-person event in the Everson Museum of Art’s Hosmer Auditorium and as a remote event on Zoom. Both will be held on Thursday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m. EST. The remote event requires registration.

This exhibition concludes UVP’s 2022-23 programming year, It’s not a bug. It’s a future. 

For more information, visit Light Work's website here.

What‘s on the earth is in the stars; and what’s in the stars is on the earth: special event with Kite

An experimental lecture

Thursday, April 21 at 6:30pm EST
Hosmer Auditorium at the Everson Museum of Art

To register for the event, follow these links:
In-Person
Zoom

Join multimedia artist and scholar Kite for an experimental lecture, What‘s on the earth is in the stars; and what’s in the stars is on the earth, which blends emerging technologies to explore the conflicting conventions of American settler-colonial identity and Lakota epistemologies.

In this hybrid remote and in-person experimental lecture, multimedia artist Kite will explore how artificial intelligence reproduces the logics of coloniality, flattening land, people, and lifeworlds into objects of knowledge — data points to be extracted. Kite intervenes on the conventions of colonialism embedded in emerging technologies by imagining what it would mean to instead build algorithms, code, and software according to the Lakota understanding of the Good Way transmitted by her family members that consider the good of Seven Generations into the future.

In conjunction with the event, the two exhibitions featuring Kite’s work will be on view. In the Everson’s Malzman Gallery, the interactive video piece Fever Dreams will be on view. On the Everson plaza, Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ (Fifteen Maps), which was commissioned by Light Work for UVP, will be on view as an architectural projection on the north facade.

Following the in-person lecture, join UVP for refreshments and view her new video work Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ (Fifteen Maps) on the Everson facade.

For more information, please visit the Light Work website here. 

aabaakwad 2022
April 22-25, 2022

Kite will be attending aabaakward 2022 in Venice, Italy this month.

aabaakwad (it clears after a storm) is a unique annual Indigenous-led conversation on Indigenous art by those who create, curate and write about it. A gathering that alternates annually between Toronto and international venues, showcasing dynamic dialogue examining themes, materials and experiences in Indigenous art practice globally. Founded in 2018 by Wanda Nanibush (Anishinaabe, Canada), aabaakwad brings together over 70 creatives from all over the world. We are Indigenous-led and artist-centred. 

For more information, please visit the aabaakwad 2022 website here.