Kite
Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition, an MFA from Bard Colleges Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD student at Concordia University and Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance practice. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fiber sculptures, immersive video and sound installations, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint, Unheard Records.
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Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts
How can a score be a call and tool for decolonization? Curated by Candice Hopkins (Tlingit) and Dylan Robinson (Stó:l?), Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts features newly commissioned scores and sounds for decolonization by Indigenous artists who attempt to answer this question.
read more »Livestream Performance of Kite’s Listener
In collaboration with Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kites digital video installation Listener included in the exhibition Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, is a visual representation of a machine made by the artist to listen to sound centered in Lakota understandings. This work is completed by Kites live performance of ‘Listener’ which will livestream via […]
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