Chopped Sound Installation in Power Full Exhibit @ Mass MoCA (N. Adams, MA)
About this Event
8/9 Chopped Sound Installation in Power Full Exhibit @ Mass MoCA (N. Adams, MA)
Sunday, 2:00-3:30pm
Building 5 @ Mass MoCA
1040 MASS MoCA WAY
North Adams, MA 01247
Join us for Chopped, a sound installation and audio takeover of by Halifax-based Two-Spirit Cree transfemme artist Arielle Twist.
Commissioned by MASS MoCA in conjunction with Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE'RE DIFFERENT exhibition and produced by Patrick ‘Reachout’ Coll, CHOPPED is a sound work informed by notions of erasure, disembodiment, hauntings, and the power of absence and ancestral presence. Twist conceived the sound installation in the wake of increasing discrimination and violence suffered by trans and gender nonconforming people, particularly in America. CHOPPED is both a manifesto and a prayer, authored and performed by Twist and a small number of trans collaborators. In the absence of her physical presence, Twist offers viewers the power of her voice, her spirit, and a braided lock of her hair.
About the Artist:
Arielle Twist’s (George Gordon First Nation and Sipekne’katik First Nation, Cree) interdisciplinary practice blends poetics and visual modes of creation to explore the realities and legacy of Indigenous and Trans* life and grief. Exploring and experimenting through mediums such as textiles, painting, performance, literature, and language, Twist is reconnecting with the legacy of Indigenous Trans matriarchy and womanhood. Recent exhibitions include Indigenous Joys, Neutral Ground, Saskatchewan, and Time As A Relative, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, British Columbia. Twist has received awards from the Writers’ Trust of Canada, Indigenous Voices Awards, and Arts Nova Scotia for her debut poetry collection Disintegrate/Dissociate (2019, Arsenal Pulp Press).
ABOUT THE MAIN EXHIBIT:
Jeffrey Gibson’s POWER FULL BECAUSE WE’RE DIFFERENT is a newly commissioned immersive installation filling MASS MoCA’s signature Building 5 gallery that follows Gibson’s highly celebrated United States representation at the 60th edition of La Biennale di Venezia. Gibson is known for creating installations, performances, paintings, and sculpture that elevate and provide visibility to queer and Indigenous communities, whose cultural narratives have been historically marginalized.
The installation features seven aspirational and newly constructed oversized garments, which are adorned with beads and found materials, that have been organized in kaleidoscopic patterns and are suspended from the ceiling on tipi poles or worn during performances. These works are informed by various faith-based regalia and club culture — paying homage to the past while signaling hope for the future. They celebreate the differences indigenous and queer people carry that make them power full and inquire about the two-spirit nature of humans, that allows us to walk between the material & the spiritual, male & female, past & present, and ordinary and extraordinary.
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