Moderated by Manuela Well-Off-Man, Chief Curator, Museum of
Contemporary Native Arts Native American artists have long used
explorations of the future as a way to reflect on the present.
Contemporary Native artists, from the Mohawk sci-fi multimedia artist
Skawennati to the Navajo photographer Will Wilson, are using
innovative techniques to create visual art, literature, comics, and
installations to build on that tradition and reframe it in a modern
context. Often described as “Indigenous Futurisms,” this movement
has reconsidered science fiction’s colonialist narratives in ways
that place the Native American experience at their heart. What are the
inspirations for this wave of futuristic work? How does it build on
the many traditions of Native American art forms? And to what extent
does this art suggest ideas for addressing civilizational threats like
climate change, plagues, inequality, and mass violence? Harvard
historian and Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract
author Philip J. Deloria , visual and performance artist Kite , and
writer and Sweet Land librettist Aja Couchois Duncan visit Zócalo to
explore the future through the art of today. Advanced Reservations
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recommend taking a rideshare or public transportation to our event.
Please see below for more information, including parking: Metro : 7th
Street/Metro Center Station Parking : Convenient self-parking is
available in the Midtown Parking Garage at 725 S. Flower St. and in
the Joe’s Parking Garage at 746 S. Hope St. - both are $6 after 4
PM. Hours may vary.
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