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Artists’ Talk with the Postcommodity Collective

Published February 9, 2017

Artists’ Talk with the Postcommodity Collective

William Johnston Building 2004

February 16, 7:00 – 8:30pm

Postcommodity Collective, is coming to FSU on 2/16, and speaking in William Johnston Building 2004, from 7:00 – 8:30 or so. Featuring Native American Artist group who describe their work in the following way: 

 

Repellent Fence by Postcommodity Collective

Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever-expanding, multinational, multiracial and multiethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence. Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere. 
 
Postcommodity is on fire right now. They are exhibiting this Spring at the Whitney Biennale for American Art and the latest Documenta (a joint project in Germany and Greece) – these are two of the most highly regarded venues in the world. Postcommodity has won grants from Creative Capital, the American Composers Forum (they make music as well), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, among others. 

Please join us in welcoming members from the internationally recognized Native American art/performance group Postcommodity Collective. They will be giving a public lecture this Thursday, February 16th from 7:00 to 8:30 in WJB 2004.

Postcommodity Collective’s visit is particularly timely in light of recent national discourses around the construction of border walls and pipeline construction though unceded native lands. They describe their practice in the following way:

 

Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere. 

 

Postcommodity Collective has had a meteoric rise the past few year, with highlights this year including the Whitney Biennial of American Art and Documenta 14 (a joint-project between Germany and Greece). They are recipients of numerous grants including Creative Capital, the American Composers Forum, and the Joan Mitchell award. A film made about their work, Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film, is premiering this week at New York’s Museum of Modern Art