Film and Audio Visual performances by indigenous artists, presented by COUSIN Collective:
Svetlana Romanova (Sakha/Even) is an artist, filmmaker, and activist born in Yakutsk, the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located south of the Arctic Circle. Her practice centers on the critical importance of Indigenous visual language and sovereignty to the sustainability of Indigenous identity, particularly in the Arctic regions, and how art can be used as a tool for Indigenous advocacy internationally.
al-yené is an artist born and raised in the Sakha republic. She works across different media, but mostly with video and poetry. Her practice is focused on continuity, displacement, gaps and absences within sakha cultural memory.
Kole Galbraith is a multi-disciplinary artist who focuses on sound, audio-visual, and found-object installation. Based in both Seattle, Washington and Tartu, Estonia, Kole Galbraith has been active in the underground experimental music community for the past decade performing throughout the West Coast of the United States and Europe. Sonically his sonic studio compositions are informed by early 20th century French musique-concrète, metal, jazz and contemporary composition. Thematically, the compositions are influenced by interior Salish folklore, and contemporary indigenous experience.
Sonora Enjambre is a multi-undisciplinary artist and musician. A descendant of the Condor y la Aguila, Sonora Enjambre currently lives on unceded Duwamish territory. Sonora has primarily, but not exclusively, performed and been featured in Washington State, earning an artist residency at the Nalanda West Buddhist temple and contributing a long-form composition to the Wayward in Limbo series curated by Nonsequitur in Si’ahl.
The Horse Thief (Diné) is coming.