Image: Lisa Stertz (Germany) at "Which Phoenix?", In/habit roving art series
@Trumbullplex, Detroit, June 2016
@Trumbullplex, Detroit, June 2016
We would like to acknowledge that we sit on occupied Native land. This is the ancestral homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, including the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa. It continues to be a hub of trade, travel, gathering and healing for more than a dozen other Native tribes and is still home to over 100,000 tribal members in the state of Illinois.
Thank you to the American Indian Center - Chicago (AICC) for providing us with these words.
Thank you to the American Indian Center - Chicago (AICC) for providing us with these words.
IN/HABIT
An independent expanded performance art series
performance + visual art + new media + video+ installations + sound + workshops + talks +
collaborations + screenings + immersive art + expanded cinema
An independent expanded performance art series
performance + visual art + new media + video+ installations + sound + workshops + talks +
collaborations + screenings + immersive art + expanded cinema
In/Habit roving art series is an open platform dedicated to holding space for brilliant weirdos, fostering collaborations between queer, feminist, BIPOC, radical thinkers and artists with various degrees of recognition in the (art) world. About 200 collaborators/artists/curators and many more participants have been part of In/habit through the 12 events that we have created in the last 2 years and a half.
This multimedia roving art series acts as a trickster platform blurring the lines between the economy of practices in both DIY spaces/politics and institutionalized art spaces. Social transformation including the transformation of the way we work together is our horizon as well as our m.o.
The notion of inhabiting points to politics of space, bodies, dwelling, displacement, borders, taking up space, cohabitation and habits. Each event tackles a specific theme and occurs at a different venue, ranging from DIY spaces to art galleries & centres, presenting performance art, installations, sound art, video,visual art/video/prints/drawings, films and new media, as well as live music and Djs on occasion.
Created and curated by
LADIDA & SALMON
This multimedia roving art series acts as a trickster platform blurring the lines between the economy of practices in both DIY spaces/politics and institutionalized art spaces. Social transformation including the transformation of the way we work together is our horizon as well as our m.o.
The notion of inhabiting points to politics of space, bodies, dwelling, displacement, borders, taking up space, cohabitation and habits. Each event tackles a specific theme and occurs at a different venue, ranging from DIY spaces to art galleries & centres, presenting performance art, installations, sound art, video,visual art/video/prints/drawings, films and new media, as well as live music and Djs on occasion.
Created and curated by
LADIDA & SALMON
Why acknowledge territory? "Territory acknowledgement is a way that people insert an awareness of Indigenous presence and land rights in everyday life. This is often done at the beginning of ceremonies, lectures, or any public event. It can be a subtle way to recognize the history of colonialism and a need for change in settler colonial societies.
However, these acknowledgements can easily be a token gesture rather than a meaningful practice. All settlers, including recent arrivants, have a responsibility to consider what it means to acknowledge the history and legacy of colonialism. What are some of the privileges settlers enjoy today because of colonialism? How can individuals develop relationships with peoples whose territory they are living on in the contemporary [...] geopolitical landscape? What are you, or your organization, doing beyond acknowledging the territory where you live, work, or hold your events? What might you be doing that perpetuates settler colonial futurity rather than considering alternative ways forward for [the territory on which you sit]? Do you have an understanding of the on-going violence and the trauma that is part of the structure of colonialism?" - Allison Jones We invite you to use this map to locate yourself and identify which Peoples are native of the territory you sit on. https://native-land.ca/ |