hokšíkilowaŋpi
A performance by Kite and Corey Stover
Thursday, July 2, 8pm (Eastern Time)
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Kite and Corey Stover’s collaborative performance, hokšíkilowaŋpi, documents two people learning a Lakota lullaby together over the phone—talking about it, listening to recordings, trying to sing it, and translating it—in a learning practice that is simultaneously private and public. Inspired by past phone conversations and recorded over multiple weeks, the artists explore Lakota methodologies that function across diaspora and distance. In doing so, the performance embodies Lakota epistemologies around exchange and embraces anomalies, understanding songs as a form of living knowledge which grow and move over time.
This performance will mix live elements with pre-recorded materials. If you have specific access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you.
This event is free with a suggested donation to the following fund designated by the artists: Oglala Sioux Tribe COVID-19 Disaster Relief Fund.
Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University, Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, and a 2019 Trudeau Scholar. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance practice. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fiber sculptures, immersive video & sound installations.
Corey Stover (Oglala Lakota) is the Vice President of the Medicine Root District Executive Board of Pine Ridge Reservation. Stover holds a Bachelors in Lakota Studies, with an emphasis in Indian Law. He is a powwow dancer and a traditional artist focusing on beadwork.
Lull, lulla, lullen is a weekly installment of collaborative performances that draw upon the lullaby—songs that have served to soothe and express worry, while also passing down cultural knowledge. In response to insomnia, vivid dreams, nightmares, and restless sleep, the lullaby acts as a prompt for caring for one another while sharing narratives of resistance, resilience, loss, and hope.
Taking place online on Thursdays at 8pm ET, this series of evening performances invites artists to address states of unrest, mourning, isolation, and uncertainty. Each week we have invited one artist to participate and, in turn, asked them to invite a second artist to collaborate with them. The resulting works take the form of bedtime rituals and dreams for the future, explorations of traditional Lakota lullabies, guided meditations, telenovelas, and sing-alongs.
All events are free with a suggested donation to one of the following funds designated by the artists: G.L.I.T.S., Inc., an organization which rehouses and supports Black trans people after incarceration; the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund, a short-term mutual aid fund for disabled organizers involved with the protests for Black liberation; and the Oglala Sioux Tribe COVID-19 Disaster Relief Fund.
Recordings of these events will be available on CUE’s website for a minimum of one week following each performance.