Land Back: Susan Blight, Quinn Hopkins, Devin Ronneberg & Kite, Casey Koyczan, Beric Manywounds, Michael Namingha, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun & Paisley Smith, Chandra Melting Tallow
Curator: Michael Patten
Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA) – 6th edition
For more information, access the BACA website here.
Kite:
Makȟóčheowápi Akézaptaŋ
(Fifteen Maps)
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 11, 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.
For more information, access Light Work UVP website here.
Kite & Devin Ronneberg: Fever Dream April 21—August 7, 2022
Fever Dream is an interactive multimedia installation by Kite, an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer, and Devin Ronneberg, a multidisciplinary artist of Kanaka Maoli/Okinawan descent working primarily in sculpture, sound, image-making, and computational media.
For more information, access the museum's website here.
2022 Creator Development Fund
Kite, along with 112 creators across the US, has been awarded the 2022 Creator Development Fund offered by New Music USA.
The Creator Development Fund offers grants to individual music creators who need support to get to the next stage of their creative practice in the context of the challenging circumstances created by COVID-19. The program supports costs which relate to collaboration with other artists and practitioners following the social isolation we’ve all experienced over the past 2 years. Our aim is to enable music creators to take the lead in the development of new and existing ideas and projects. We are also striving to stimulate creativity and collaboration between music creators and other artists from any discipline or background and to build community in response to the restrictions we have all been facing.
For more information on the 2022 Creator Development Fund programming, access New Music USA's website here.
Toronto Biennale Publication
Kite's work Call to Arms, done with Althea Thauberger, is presented in the Toronto Biennale Publication Water, Kinship, Belief.Water, Kinship, Belief, co-published by the Toronto Biennial of Art and Art Metropole. Spanning the 2019 Biennial, entitled The Shoreline Dilemma, as well as their 2022 edition, What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, this book is a “third” site, a place where the continuities, resonances, and dissonances between editions are made evident. Water, Kinship, Belief is a means to bring together the artists, artworks, collaborators, and ideas that have informed the exhibitions and programs.
Kite's work on The Last of the Lemurians, done in collaboration with the New Red Order and presented by Centre Clark and the 2021 Momenta Biennale in Montréal, was reviewed by Esse Magazine.
For now, the article "Mine, Mine, Mine, Heal, Heal, Heal", written by Kate Whiteway, can be read by Esse subscribers here. The article will be featured in the upcoming September issue of Esse.
