We Left Them Nothing: Interview with Demian Dinéyazhi'
In this episode artist Demian DinéYazhi´ speaks with Broken Boxes about their practice, navigating the contemporary art world and online spaces and they read excerpts from their poetry works including An Infected Sunset and unreleased materials from their forthcoming publication We Left Them Nothing.
Demian DinéYazhi´ (born 1983) is a Portland-based Diné transdisciplinary artist, poet, and curator born to the clans Naasht’ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water’s Edge) & Tódích’íí’nii (Bitter Water). Their practice is a regurgitation of purported Decolonial praxis informed by the over accumulation and exploitative supremacist nature of hetero-cis-gendered communities post colonization. They are a survivor of attempted european genocide, forced assimilation, manipulation, sexual and gender violence, capitalist sabotage, and hypermarginalization in a colonized country that refuses to center their politics and philosophies around the Indigenous Peoples whose Land they occupy and refuse to give back. They live and work in a post-post-apocalyptic world unafraid to fail.
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Song featured: Nice Guy by WEEDRAT
This episode first aired June 21, 2021 for Broken Boxes on Radio Coyote, a project initiated by Raven Chacon and CCA Wattis Institute, on the occasion of Chacon's 2020-21 Capp Street Artist-in-Residency. Radio Coyote is currently produced by Atomic Culture and will transition to new programming on July 16, 2021. www.radiocoyote.org
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This conversation was hosted by Ginger Dunnill of Broken Boxes Podcast
