"This episode will focus on Indigenous languages and our position as settlers in relation to contemporary Indigenous artists' use of and engagement with Indigenous language learning, publication and other forms of distribution. At the heart of this episode is a wide-ranging conversation with Cannupa Hanska Luger, concept artist of STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation, about the place of language in their recent work EACH/OTHER (with Marie Watt) and how Indigenous language learning builds community while also transforming the English language from within. The episode also engages with Potu faitautusi: Faiāʻoga o gagana e, ia uluulumamau!, which translates from the Sāmoan language as ‘Be Courageous, Language Teachers! Reading Room', an ongoing project at Columbus Printed Arts Center. We hear from guest librarian Dr Léuli Eshrāghi about how they and other participating artists (including Sarah Biscarra Dilley and Sebastián Calfuqueo Aliste) gather books on Indigenous art and philosophy and create prints with an Indigenous language phrase, proverb or concept to generate a constellatory syllabus grounded in sensual, spoken and marked languages. Léuli offers a description of their new limited edition print created for the project which includes a precolonial Sāmoan prayer and is now available to buy on the Columbus Printed Arts Center website. Throughout the episode, you will hear samples from Elisa Harkins' album Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ mixing disco beats with singing in the Cherokee and Muscogee Creek languages. The album is available from Western Front Recordings and on Harkins’ Bandcamp as a digital download or vinyl LP." @minus_plato

For more information and resources, visit http://minusplato.com/dear-fellow-settler-colonizer. 
 
The first two episodes are available to listen to at the following link: https://soundcloud.com/brokenboxes/sets/dear-fellow-settler-colonizer

"dear fellow settler colonizer," A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 3

"This episode will discuss approaches to curriculum for global Indigenous arts from within and beyond the settler institutions of the university and the museum. In addition to an ongoing conversation on this topic with Cannupa Hanska Luger, concept artist of STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation, the episode centers on a narrative by Jaime Morse, educator for Indigenous Programs and Outreach at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Focusing on her experience as an educator at the two large-scale exhibitions of global Indigenous art, Sakahàn (2013) and Àbadakone (2019), Morse describes the work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango (Sámi Architectural Library, 2019) at the latter as a space of gathering and knowledge exchange, not only for other artists in the exhibition, but also for Indigenous community members. At the beginning and end of the episode are two spoken word pieces by writer, artist and curator Taqralik Partridge, of Inuit, Scottish and Canadian heritage: ‘Decolonisation is a Pyramid Scheme’ and ‘Untitled’. The former was included in a TV show created by Joar Nango and Ken Are Bongo called Post-Capitalist Architecture TV for Bergen Kunsthall, while the latter was included in NIRIN: 22nd Sydney Biennale, curated by Brook Andrew. ‘Untitled’ was originally written following a performance by Indigenous Brazilian artist Denilson Baniwa in Toronto and Partridge agreed for it to be included in today’s episode with a request for donations to support the South American Indigenous Network Emergency Fund – here is the link to donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/south-american-indigenous-network-emergency-fund " @minus-plato

Episode Image: detail of AKA by Mata Aho Collective (used with permission of the artists), installed at Àbadakone at the National Gallery of Canada, 2019 with text in Pueblo typeface by Vier5

For more information and resources, visit http://minusplato.com/dear-fellow-settler-colonizer. 
 
The first three episodes are available to listen to at the following link: https://soundcloud.com/brokenboxes/sets/dear-fellow-settler-colonizer

"dear fellow settler colonizer," A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 4

"This episode focuses on STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation, by asking how settlers can change our relationship to the internet as part of the reclamation of digital space by and for Indigenous artists and audiences. The whole episode comprises a conversation between Cannupa Hanska Luger, concept artist of STTLMNT and filmmaker and Red Brigade Films Director Razelle Benally.

Through an intimate exchange, the two artists share their experiences at the very heart of the STTLMNT project; how the conceptual core of the project shifted to digital space and how this concept was expanded and enriched through the intense and exhausting labor of Benally’s pandemic-era travel across the country to create the sequence of films devoted to the participating artists and their practices. Expanding on her statement about the project posted on the STTLMNT website, Benally discusses her films as ‘vessels of access’ to the participating artists as a generative alternative to settler colonial methods of occupation, extraction and erasure. Her process in careful dialogue with each artist challenges the very language of documentary film that speaks of ‘shooting’, ‘capturing’, and ‘cutting’ within the filming and editing process. The conversation offers a compelling insight into the making of the STTLMNT project that shows how its uniqueness as an Indigenous online art project cannot be simplistically accessed or consumed by curious settler audiences, but must be engaged as part of an ongoing process of unlearning entrenched ideas about what it means to occupy space across, even across digital networks." - @minus_plato

On May 29th, Benally will present an online premiere of a very special Directors Cut using footage she has gathered over the course of her work on the STTLMNT x Red Brigade Films short documentary series, incorporating behind the scenes and previously unseen footage. She will again be joined with Cannupa Hanska Luger in a post-screening conversation and Q&A. 
Click here for more details and to register for the event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/151983443571 

Image:  taken on-site in Tulsa, Oklahoma at Wild Mountain Studios while gathering footage of participating artist Elisa Harkins as part of the final region of the Red Brigade Films short documentary series for STTLMNT. The image features Director Razelle Benally,
Cinematographer Adam Conte, Executive Producer Ginger Dunnill
and was taken by Jade Begay, 2021, with text in Pueblo typeface by Vier5

For more information and resources, visit minusplato.com/dear-fellow-settler-colonizer.

The first four episodes are available to listen to at the following link: soundcloud.com/brokenboxes/sets/dear-fellow-settler-colonizer

#dearfellowsettlercolonizer #cannupahanskaluger #razellebenally #sttlmnt #redbrigadefilms
#vergefm #minusplato

"dear fellow settler colonizer," A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 5

A conversation with Patrick Burnham, better known in the art continuum by the handle Cloud Face, a Navajo/Hopi painter, musician, dancer, dj, producer and all around true expressionist. Much like the constant evolution of form and direction we see in a cloud making it's way across the sky, Cloud Face the artist, possesses the ability to enter an environment and enhance every aspect of his surroundings, shape shifting seamlessly through his crafts to create an inspiration that is comparable to a modern day renaissance man, now often known as the B-Boy.
All music featured on this episode is from Cloud Face's own debut album; Secrets of the Invisible.
More about Cloud Face on our blog Artbeatconversations.com

Interview with artist Patrick 'Cloud Face' Burnham. EPISODE 9

Sophie Rousmaniere has worked as a filmmaker and freelance journalist in the US, Canada, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Guatemala, Pakistan, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. She has produced, edited and directed over thirty documentaries, short films and music videos. Sophie’s work is largely social issue based, having worked on topics from child prostitution in Thailand to environmental issues in the four corners area in New Mexico. Currently Rousmaniere is wrapping up a documentary slated for broadcast on PBS; “Yellow Fever – The Navajo Uranium Legacy”. She has also been busy working on her latest project, " Radio Taboo", a development project and documentary film about Issa Nyaphaga, an artist and activist returning to his small village Nditam, in Central Africa to build a community radio station to address human rights issues.

Interview with Filmmaker, Singer and Activist Sophie Rousmaniere. Episode 11

Bethany Matai Edmunds a.k.a Miss b.Me is a weaver, artist, fiber sculptor and Hip Hop lyricist. Edmunds visual work is grounded in traditional Maori weaving which she conceptually translates using traditional materials and fibers, combined with contemporary denim and mixed media, which further expresses her experiences of being a culture bearer of 'pART mAOri' descent. Lyrically, Edmunds also called Miss b.Me, explores similar concepts which she poetically expresses through cultural references and feminine flows, combining stories inspired by her Maori heritage and her unique worldview of life as an artist, poet and MC. Edmunds has a strong focus on the enhancement of taitamariki, young people, through the use of the arts, and ensuring that nga taonga tuku iho, the skills passed down from our ancestors, are retained for future generations.

Interview with Maori Artist Bethany Matai Edmunds. Episode 13

Yatika Starr Fields is of the Cherokee, Creek and Osage tribes, a member of the Bear Clan, and was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His Creek name "Yvtekv" means Interpreter, and in interviewing Yatika it becomes apparent how fitting this handle is. In this episode, we learn how Yatika interprets the world through his art, as he recounts travel and inspirations from home that have shifted his perspectives and created the kaleidoscopic visions apparent in his work. We find out where this inspiring artist comes from, what people and places have influenced his thought process, and what currently motivates his artistic expression. I am truly honored to share with you all the story of Yatika Starr Fields.  

Interview with artist Yatika Starr Fields. Episode 14

The format get's shifted a bit for this celebratory episode marking Art Beat Conversations 20th Episode! Listen in on a conversation from the creators of This Is A Stereotype, an artistic narrative film project about possible causes and effects surrounding Indigenous identity. And as a special bonus for this episode, After the conversation, the podcast will feature the audio from the film. 

a Special thanks to BAD ART printing who created the limited edition print work for This Is A Stereotype!

Behind the scenes of film project This Is A Stereotype. Episode 20

Rose B. Simpson was born in Santa Fe, NM, and raised among an extended family of artists in Santa Fe and Santa Clara Pueblo. Her mother; Roxanne Swentzell, a known ceramic sculptor within the Indigenous art world, and her father; Patrick Simpson, a contemporary artist in wood and metal introduced her to the art world at a young age. 

Of both Indigenous and Anglo descent, with art and philosophy primary in both families, she has pursued the pure expression of truth through many forms of art including sculpture, printmaking, drawing, creative writing, music, dance and most recently auto mechnics and paint. Her work often signifies the constant struggle between the two worlds that most modern Indigenous peoples survive through; traditional and the colonist perspective/assimilation. 

http://www.brokenboxespodcast.com/podcast/2015/3/5/episode-27-interview-with-rose-b-simpson

Learn more about the work of Rose on here website: www.rosebsimpson.com

Interview with Artist Rose B. Simpson. Episode 27

Cara Romero is a Chemehuevi photographer whose work reflects her diverse training in film, digital, fine art, journalism, editorial portraiture and commercial photography. Currently Cara is creating monumental fine art works that are representative of her editorial and photo documentary background. Her work is a response to current events and issues in Indian Country from environmental impact on indigenous communities to cultural appropriation to the portrayal of indigenous women in popular culture. She is a dedicated photographer, cultural activist, wife and mother. 

Follow the work of Cara Romero here: http://cararomerophotography.com/

Interview with Photographer Cara Romero. Episode 33

Broken Boxes Podcast is proud to present this episode featuring Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch as the 9th installation in a series of interviews featuring participants and their respondents from the socially engaged project #callresponse.  

For the #callresponse project Christi Belcourt works with traditional teacher and collaborator Isaac Murdoch to hold ceremony with plants and animals as her community with The Onaman Collective. Just as the natural world is depicted symbolically as medicine in her work through the act of painting she aims to take action in an effort to restore balance as a human being amongst many living beings. Her project stems from the believe that we as people are not ready for reconciliation. She does not consider the first step towards reconciliation as starting between native and non-­natives but rather as something that needs to take place between humans and the plants and animals. Pronounced ah­nah­min, The Onaman Collective was formed in 2014 by Isaac Murdoch, Christi Belcourt and Erin Konsmo out of their deep care for youth and the future of community. The collective was formed for the express purpose of finding ways to connect youth to land, traditional knowledge, language and Elders through art and land­based activities.

Music featured on this podcast by Ziibiwan

#callresponse project details:

#callresponse presents the work of First Nations, Inuit and Métis women and artists as central to the strength and healing of their communities. This multifaceted project brings together five site­specific art commissions that invite collaboration with individuals, communities, lands and institutions. This socially engaged project focuses on the "act of doing" through performative actions, highlighting the responsibility of voice and necessity of communal dialogue practiced by Indigenous Peoples.

Episode 53

Interview with #callresponse participating artists Christi Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch. Episode 53

This episode we get into conversation with non-binary trans* multidisciplinary artist Freyr A Marie

BBP Episode Website Link: http://www.brokenboxespodcast.com/podcast/2017/1/9/episode-58-interview-with-freyr-a-marie

About the Artist:

G/^/L/^/I/^/T/^/C/^/H/---*_*---/P/^/R/^/0/^/F/^/I/^/L/^/E
I'm no authority:::: but making things for me is a practice of doing and being*** My critical minds lives there/^/my politics/^/mybody/^/my questions/^/my love/^/my creativity/^/myself in change/^/my ability to sooth myself--*_*--> that Xspirit that cannot be pinned down with-*_*--> that quality of resistance that is joy and peering through cracks/^//^/-*_*---> that is turmoil and violence:::::/bashback/graceback/talkback/makeback/rageback/loveback/::::::::::::::There's grace/^/grit/^/fight/^/imagination/^/preservation of::::I am not just alone/^/ my doing/^/ art/^/creativity/^/craft/^/ what ever-> the name/^/is connected to others /^/a non linear/^/ lineage of people/^/ related to me by blood or by another intersection of thinking-*_*->being-->place-*_*->displacement--->practice or identity/^/that impact my sense of these things/^/whether is shows up overtly in what i make or doesn't-*_*-> whether it is in celebration of a quality-*_*->a way of doing/a way of relating -*_*->or in resistance to/^/ or both/^/neither at once:::: it shows up::::in the code::::it is intentional/^/or free/^/or random::: i suppose theres an ethic in there::: how i understand those relationships and interpret them in my practices of doing and making-*_*--> or don’t---*_*-->Its tactile/^/ it is need/^/ is safety/^/ its risk/^/ it is technology/^/needle/^/thread/^/but mostly it is a kind of doing that helps me-*_*--> hold a space--->wake up and be in the world with others/^/ and communicate--*_*->and thats certainly not all of it/^/only so much you can say in the code/^/in the logic/^/::::::glitching out loud::::::::never enough/^/always too much:///:///:///incare/^/in/dignity//////

Music featured on this episode: SWARM Freak Band, Freyr A. Marie: Not the Moon or Sun, Whodini, YNOT & Cosmo Klein, Janelle Monae, Street Sweeper
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Epsode 58

Interview with non-binary trans* multidisciplinary artist Freyr A Marie. Episode 58

In this episode we get into conversation with queer Asian-American artist, filmmaker and poet JESS X SNOW. She speaks on her migration story and how imposed borders have shaped her art and perspective on place. She touches on how her work has allowed for collaborations with a global community of artists and activists and she speaks on balancing work as a freelance artist with self care and making space to focus on projects that are important to her personal artistic growth. It is an honor to share this conversation to celebrate Broken Boxes Podcast 3 years of programming!

Photo credit: Tani Ikeda
More about the artist: www.jessxchen.com
Music featured on this episode by @kaylabriet
Podcast website: http://www.brokenboxespodcast.com/podcast/2017/3/11/episode-60-interview-with-jess-x-snow

Episode 60

Interview with artist JESS X SNOW. Episode 60 (music by Kayla Briet)

In this episode of the Dear Patriarchy series we get into conversation with Queer Nature founders Pınar Ateş Sinopoulos-Lloyd and Sophia ("So") Sinopoulos-Lloyd. Queer Nature is a Colorado-based project that creates a decolonially-informed queer futurism through earth-based skills. Queer Nature envisions and implements ecological relationship as a vital and often overlooked part of the healing and wholing of populations who have been systemically silenced and marginalized, such as the LGBTQ2+ population, and especially trans and queer people of color and two-spirit folks. Ecological literacy is deep relationship building with living and non-living earth systems through ancestral-futurist resilience skills including naturalist knowledge, so-called ‘survival’ skills, natural crafts, and local cultural/natural history.

+++Be sure to check out/sign up for Queer Natures upcoming queer scouting intensive Scoutcraft: Belonging as Resistance coming up July 19-21 2018 in Portland OR and also their Queer Mountain Quest, a partnership between Queer Nature & Rites of Passage Journeys which Pinar will be guiding for 13-18 year old youth and taking place near Seattle WA, August 12-25 2018. And hop onto queernature.org to find out information about all the upcoming Queer Nature participation opportunities. +++

Stay connected with Queer Nature AND learn about and sign up to participate in their upcoming workshops and journeys: 
www.queernature.org
IG: @queernature
FB: @queernature
Queer Mountain Quest: http://riteofpassagejourneys.org/wilderness-programs/ages-14-18/queer-mountain-quest

The Dear Patriarchy Podcast Series is hosted by Broken Boxes Podcast in collaboration with Indigenous Goddess Gang.  

Follow Indigenous Goddess Gang HERE: www.indigenousgoddessgang.com
Instagram @indigenousgoddessgang

Dear Patriarchy Ep.3 QUEER NATURE (BBP 74)

In this episode we speak to multi-disciplinary and social practice artist Patricia Vázquez Gómez. Patricia breaks down how she uses art as a tool for investigation and to create situations which uncover tensions between visibility and invisibility. She reflects on her relationships with various resistance movements in Mexico and how she strives to remain accountable as she walks into a movement or resistance situation as an artist, navigating the work and privilege of the role in artist as 'activist'. Patricia also touches on her relationship to her queer identity, indigenous sexuality, along with the the importance of artists ethics, political awareness, and how critical it is to be accountable to what is driving you as an artist.

Patricia Vázquez Gómez works and lives between Portland and Mexico City. Her practice includes a range of media, from painting and murals to video and socially engaged art projects, and it is deeply informed by her experiences working in the immigrant rights and other social justice movements in the US, and by the zapatismo and indigenous movements in Mexico, both in content and in the methodologies she uses.

Patricia’s work can be explored at http://cargocollective.com/patriciavg

"I think that when we are doing work about other people's trauma, we have to be very careful about how we are doing that... I don't think we should not do the work, but I think there are ways in which we can do this type of work that is responsible and sensitive. I also believe that there are no formulas for doing any kind of work in the most perfect or ethical way, all we have is our values and our sense of what's responsible and what's respectful." -Patricia Vázquez Gómez

Interview with Patricia Vázquez Gómez. Episode 75

This episode of Broken Boxes Podcast presents a live stream recording by artists Christine Howard Sandoval and Cannupa Hanska Luger as they visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibit: Art of Native America, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection on October 7th, 2018. The two artists engaged in a live stream critique and shared the experience on social media as it was unfolding. Onsite at the Met the two artists were joined by the guest curators from the Nelson Atkins Museum Gaylord Torrence and Marjorie Alexander along with the Met's director of public programs Mari Robles. 

http://www.brokenboxespodcast.com/podcast/2018/10/22/episode-77-artists-christine-howard-sandoval-and-cannupa-hanska-luger-live-stream-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-arts-new-exhibit-art-of-native-america-the-charles-and-valerie-diker-collection

A note from the producer about this episode:

Broken Boxes Podcast has had the immense privilege to interview over 70 artists over the past 3 years. As the producer and creator of Broken Boxes, this project has been so dear to my heart and I am truly humbled and grateful for all of the incredible people who have taken the time to be vulnerable and share their stories on the platform of this podcast. This episode will mark a 6 month break I will initiate in the project, so I can regroup and take time and space to gather more interviews, edit them, upgrade equipment and connect with more artists and movements in a way that feels authentic and respectful. On a personal note, as a mother of two young children, I have just began approaching ‘unschooling’ or kind of like life schooling, focusing on some really intense life choices, allowing my children to love learning and be able to navigate the world in a way which respects them, and this journey is radical, scary and my partner and I are really excited to focus on our children a bit more holistically, which seems to be quiet a strong way to walk the walk in caring for our future and how we hope it to perpetuate. For this episode I was going to make a collection from all of the interviews I have done to date, I began, and got to about episode 30, when I realized there is no clear way to edit down the content of each episode, each artist is speaking in such a long format, and unapologetic way, sharing such important and critical information, I just could not edit the episodes down into soundbites, and it was making me feel horrible to try. (If you need to catch up on all the past episodes, you can do so in the Archive section.) And so, I chose not to do that for this episode. For this episode, before I take a nice break in publishing work, stories, interviews, conversations on this platform, I am grateful to share with you a pretty special recording of a live feed from earlier this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. I felt sharing this live feed broadcast would be a wonderful segway into the more in depth concentrated content I hope to begin intercepting into this project. I hope to find a way to follow more closely with a project or approach an artist is examining and present a more journalistic approach to the story and concepts. This will take time and travel and equipment upgrades. And so this break will allow me space to find these tools and refresh this work. I do feel this project is critical, it is an archive of existence, but this project breaks the colonial lens which the stories of my peers are often times focused through. And so I would like to continue it, but I would like to step it up many notches. 

Gratitude and solidarity!

Artists Christine Howard Sandoval and Cannupa Hanska Luger live stream at the Met. Episode 77

As part of STTLMNT Digital Occupation, we are thrilled to share a vulnerable, vivid, layered, and candid conversation between Director Sterlin Harjo and artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the making of Harjo’s film Love & Fury. 

The conversation takes us into the beginning of Harjo’s relationship to Native art rom childhood, through experiences within the Native art market with his peers and into Harjo’s experience in meeting up with Luger in Plymouth, UK to film. We also hear about Harjo’s poetic and visionary approach to the choices he made for Love & Fury’s aesthetic and storyline and Harjo talks about his upcoming exciting TV series with Taika Waititi, Reservation Dogs. Sterlin is an incredible storyteller and we are grateful to share his perspective with you here. 

We hope you enjoy listening in to this conversation as much as we enjoyed having it. More info: www.sttlmnt.org/projects/love-and-fury

About the film Love & Fury:

Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo follows Native artists as they navigate their careers in the US and abroad. The film explores the immense complexities each artist faces of their own identity as Native artists, as well as, advancing Native art into a post-colonial world. 

DIRECTORS NOTE: “The film is a conversation that I’ve wanted to have for a long time. Native art has been shackled to history by a false vision of what Native people are through the settler gaze of our current reality. I wanted to make something bold and in your face, directly putting up a finger to the shackles of the art world and historic representation of our people. We are diverse, we are dark, we are beautiful and so is our artwork. We are human beings.” - Sterlin Harjo

LOVE & FURY
DIRECTOR  - Sterlin Harjo 
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Robin Ballenger  
RUNTIME - 93 minutes
MORE INFO - www.loveandfuryfilm.com

On Love & Fury: A conversation with Director Sterlin Harjo & Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger

"dear fellow settler colonizer," is a new minus plato broadcast series for Verge.fm 

“The show will explore the transformative work of contemporary global Indigenous artists from the explicitly problematic perspective of the settler colonizer. By critically examining our complicity in ongoing structures of colonial violence, the show offers tools for settler colonizers to engage with Indigenous artmaking beyond positions of exploitation, appropriation and other harmful moves to innocence.” -minus plato

For each episode, minus plato will be joined by Cannupa Hanska Luger, Native American concept artist of STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation. www.cannupahanska.com // www.minusplato.com 
@minus-plato

This is a rebroadcast for the purposes of education to settler ancestors who are engaging with the work of STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation. This rebroadcast is of the first episode of Minus Plato program aired at 12pm EST, USA on Friday, 22 January, 2021. 

After each episode of the series airs we will publish the recording to  https://www.sttlmnt.org/blog 

This is a rebroadcast for the purposes of education to settler ancestors who are engaging with the work of STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation. 

This rebroadcast is of the first episode of this minus plato radio program which aired at 12pm EST, USA on Friday, 22 January, 2021. 

After each episode of the series airs live we will publish the recording to to this blog. We have chosen to share this work on this website as resource archive directed towards education of settler ancestors who may like to more relationally engage with this website and other work created by and centering Indigenous artists.

dear fellow settler colonizer 

"dear fellow settler colonizer,"  A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 1

"dear fellow settler colonizer," is a new minus plato broadcast series for Verge.fm

This episode focuses on collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and audiences across a range of roles, from ally to accomplice, challenging performative settler 'moves to innocence'. From the Columbus Museum of Art exhibition "Object/Set" by Gauri Gill to the radical media projects of New Red Order (NRO) and their 'informants', the episode continues the radio show's focus on exploring the transformative work of contemporary global Indigenous artists from the explicitly problematic perspective of the settler colonizer. By critically examining our complicity in ongoing structures of colonial violence, the show offers tools for settler colonizers to engage with Indigenous artmaking beyond positions of exploitation, appropriation and other harmful moves to innocence. In this episode, Minus Plato will again be joined by Cannupa Hanska Luger, concept artist of STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation 

“The show will explore the transformative work of contemporary global Indigenous artists from the explicitly problematic perspective of the settler colonizer. By critically examining our complicity in ongoing structures of colonial violence, the show offers tools for settler colonizers to engage with Indigenous artmaking beyond positions of exploitation, appropriation and other harmful moves to innocence.” - Minus Plato

For each episode, Minus Plato will be joined by Cannupa Hanska Luger, Native American concept artist of STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation. www.cannupahanska.com // www.minusplato.com 
@minus-plato

This is a rebroadcast for the purposes of education to settler ancestors who are engaging with the work of STTLMNT: Indigenous Digital Occupation. This rebroadcast is of the first episode of Minus Plato program aired at 2pm EST, USA, 19, January, 2021.

After each episode of the series airs live we will publish the recording to to this blog. We have chosen to share this work on this website as resource archive directed towards education of settler ancestors who may like to more relationally engage with this website and other work created by and centering Indigenous artists. www.sttlmnt.org/blog

Image: photo from outside looking in at the New Red Order (NRO) "Never Settle" installation at the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2019 with text in Pueblo typeface by VIER5

"dear fellow settler colonizer," A Minus Plato broadcast. Episode 2

https://www.sttlmnt.org/projects/emily-johnson

Presented here is a rebroadcast of a responsive witnessing event produced through the STTLMNT Digital Occupation project. This is a conversation between Karyn Recollet, Emily Johnson, Joseph M. Pierce and Camille Georgeson-Usher. You are invited to first Watch the recording of the filmed performance, The Ways We Love and The Ways We Love Better, Monumental Movement Toward Being Future Being(s), Emily Johnson's Collaboration with Jeffrey Gibson, presented at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, September 16, 2020, and which this Responsive Witnessing conversation is in relationship with. Visit www.sttlmnt.org/projects/emily-johnson to view the performance and learn more about the artists featured in this conversation and the work of STTLMNT.


WATCH Emily Johnson's Collaboration with Jeffrey Gibson at Socrates "The Ways We Love and The Ways We Love Better, Monumental Movement Toward Being Future Being(s)": youtu.be/nJAmqdMnFCk

Responsive Witnessing:  Emily Johnson, Karyn Recollet, Joseph M. Pierce & Camille Usher

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Launched in 2014, Broken Boxes was created to transmit ideas between working Artists. Broken Boxes shares the lived experiences and world building strategies of contemporary Artists in order to archive collective strength while considering how Art and imagining may unbind us from collective social trauma. This long-form interview podcast reflects the vulnerability and strength of the Artist while acknowledging the many variations of an Artists practiced values including those of the activist, advocate, disruptor or culture bearer. 

Broken Boxes maintains that complexity is resilience and expands on the points where we stand in accomplice-ship for one another as creatives. By actively practicing long term alliance through communication strategy, this work amplifies Artists at the forefront of global and regional impact who are creating new ways to see our existence through Art, organizing and advocacy. This project promotes deeper understanding, healing and solidarity as we move collectively towards witnessing each other and the world in new ways.

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