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Decolonial Gestures | A Symposium on Indigenous Performance (Day 1)
Fri, May 5, 2017, 11:00 am–8:00 pm
| Free
Decolonial Gestures
Decolonial Gestures | A Symposium on Indigenous Performance is an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and intertribal symposium intended to both present and stimulate contemporary Indigenous expressive forms. Taking cue from the recent theoretical unfolding of decoloniality, the symposium will both enact and examine decolonial praxis, which resists the perceptual and discursive strictures of colonial matrices of power.
The events serve as a public forum for the presentation of contemporary Native art and the transmission of Indigenous knowledges across generations, while engaging multiple diverse communities of New Mexico. Bringing together both established and emerging artists, the symposium marks a historical trajectory of Indigenous performance and explores new directions in Native art.
For up-to-date and detailed information, see Decolonial Gestures | A Symposium on Indigenous Performance.
Schedule
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5 | 11:00 am–12:30 pm | Never Alone: Writing Our Histories, Families, and Communities led by Reed Adair Bobroff (Diné) | MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe 87501 |
| May 5 | 2:00 pm–5:00 pm | Exercises for Rebel Artists: A Performance Workshop by La Pocha Nostra led by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Balitronica Gómez | MoCNA 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe 87501 |
| May 5 | 6:00 pm–7:00 pm | Film Screening—Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film directed by Sam Wainwright Douglas (74 min.) | St. Francis Auditorium 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe 87501 |
| May 5 | 7:00 pm–8:00 pm | Discussion with Postcommodity artists Raven Chacon (Diné), Cristóbal Martinez (Mexica), Kade L. Twist (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma). | St. Francis Auditorium 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe 87501 |
| May 6 | 9:15 am–10:45 am | The Art of Indigenous Storytellingwith Ty Defoe (Oneida/Ojibwe) | UNM Center for the Arts 203 Cornell Dr. NE, Albuquerque 87131 |
| May 6 | 9:15 am–10:45 am | Understanding the Major Dramatic Question for Playwrights with Rhiana Yazzie (Diné) | UNM Center for the Arts 203 Cornell Dr. NE, Albuquerque 87131 |
| May 6 | 11:00 am–12:45 pm | Storyweaving Workshop with Gloria Miguel (Kuna/Rappahannock) of Spiderwoman Theater | UNM Center for the Arts 203 Cornell Dr. NE, Albuquerque 87131 |
| May 6 | 1:15 pm–3:15 pm | Postcommodity Workshop | UNM Center for the Arts 203 Cornell Dr. NE, Albuquerque 87131 |
| May 6 | 4:00 pm–5:30 pm | Roundtable discussion of Indigenous performance with Gloria Miguel (Kuna/Rappahannock), Rhiana Yazzie (Diné), Ty Defoe (Oneida/Ojibwe), Reed Adair Bobroff (Diné), Raven Chacon (Diné), Cristóbal Martínez (Mexica), and Kade L. Twist (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma). | UNM Art Museum 203 Cornell Dr. NE, Albuquerque 87131 |
| May 6 | 6:00 pm–7:00 pm | Prayer Invocation and Reception | UNM Center for the Arts Lobby 203 Cornell Dr. NE, Albuquerque 87131 |
| May 6 | 7:00 pm–8:00 pm | Performances of New Songs, Old Traditions by Reed Adair Bobroff (Diné) and Guillermo Gómez-Peña: The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist by Guillermo Gómez-Peña with cameo by Balitronica Gómez . | UNM Rodey Theatre 203 Cornell Dr. NE, Albuquerque 87131 |
Decolonial Gestures | A Symposium on Indigenous Performance is made possible through a generous grant from the UNM Center for Regional Studies and also the support of the UNM Department of Theatre and Dance.
The symposium is curated by Dominika Laster and developed in collaboration with the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Tricklock Company, New Mexico Museum of Art, and UNM Art Museum.