Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ

Schedule

Fri May 24 2024 at 07:00 pm

Location

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center | Oklahoma City, OK

Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ is an ongoing project in which artist Elisa Harkins (Cherokee/Muscogee) sings in a combination of Cherokee, English and Muscogee (Creek) to electronic dance music, some of which is inspired by sheet music of Indigenous music notated by Daniel Chazanoff during the 20th century. As an act of Indigenous Futurism, it combines disco and Indigenous language in an effort to alter the fate of these endangered languages through active use, preservation on pressed vinyl and radio play.
The performance of Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ is referring to the wampum belts and Indigenous peacekeeping, as well as the Cherokee use of wampum beads as currency. ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, pronounced a-de-la di-ga-gu-di, can be translated to “money on a string.” The intention of Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ performance is to create a metaphorical peacekeeping agreement that is between the people watching the piece, regardless of tribe or race.
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DJ Nymasis and El La Katrina share their new work in progress as a jump-off point for a large-scale work to be presented in 2025 as a film and art that is multimodal, multidimensional and an immersive sensory experience bridging film, performance, dance and wearable design.

Join us, May 24, for an evening of celebrating Indigeneity and moving with hope into the future. Tickets are $20 with a pay-what-you-can option — for more info visit: okcontemp.org/wampum. All are welcome and encouraged to attend this performance.
?: Artist Elisa Harkins in Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber.

Where is it happening?

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, 1214 N Broadway Dr, Oklahoma City, OK 73103, United States,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Host or Publisher Oklahoma Contemporary

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