Live.Love.Fight.Back.

Work in progress: Frog & Thunderbird pendant #nativeamerican #aboriginal #firstnations #haida #native #Kwakiutl

Fuck the White Man by Skeena Reece

Brief Encounters is ‘a multidisciplinary experiment designed to fuse genres and push artistic boundaries.’ Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Invited artists are randomly paired, and given 14 days to create a short work. I had the pleasure of being paired with Skeena Reece, who fuses performance art with First Nations traditions, to comic, and sometimes uncomfortable, effect. We filmed HD clips of her talking 'to herself’ as if she was acting as her own subconscious, then I effected the clips and reprojected them over her body onstage, so that they also served as lighting design. The sequencing of the clips was done live, in an improvisational manner, using Pure Data.

In case you missed our incredible interview with ms Skeena Reece… here is a stream of the song in question “John Carver” http://rpm.fm/music/stream-skeena-reece-john-carver/

Commissioned as part of the imagineNATIVE Film Festival’s Embargo Collective.

Raven: On the Colonial Fleet, by Skeena Reece (2010, photo by Sebastian Kriete)

The Future Mr. and Mr. Roanhorse

“what we do to the mountain, we do to ourselves.” #flagstaff 2011 #sacredsites #environmentalism #dontskithepee

My RA put this note on every door on our floor today.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via theijeoma)

Do you ever think that truths or check yourself advice, articles, or memes are not about you? Do you feel you been around long enough to know whats up with indigenous resistance or any kind of activism and and so you are exempt from these types of teachings? If this is you YOU NEED TO READ THIS NOW!