Conversation with DJ 13Pieces - Justin Ray

This Episode marks our One Year Anniversary!

Art Beat Conversations will now be known as Broken Boxes. 

Thank you to all the artists and subscribers for the immense positive response for this project! 

In this episode we come full circle and hear the journey of the DJ in a conversation with DJ 13 PIECES aka Justin Ray. Just as in the very first story featuring DJ INTI, we will dive again into the obsessive world of the DJ, the collector and sharer of music, and learn more about what it takes to be a DJ in todays digital world.  Justin Ray bought his first DJ mixer in the early nineties. Ten years later, Justin created the DJ persona 13pieces. A decade after that, 13pieces created DJ Chopper. They currently live in Santa Fe, NM creating through DJ Culture, Photography, Writing and Graphic Design.

 

 

Here is the conversation with Justin Ray:
 

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Music featured on this episode by: Boards of Canada, Georgio, Blackalicious, Kool DJ E.Q., Moondog, Rob Swift, J Trick, Cut Chemist, Shark Siren, DJ Shadow. End track: ALPHAWOLFSOUP mixed by 13 PIECES 

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Conversation with Artist Nicholas Galanin

What Have We Become? Vol. 5. NIcholas Galanin. Paper: 1000 pages containing text from Under Mount Saint Elias. 2006

What Have We Become? Vol. 5. NIcholas Galanin. Paper: 1000 pages containing text from Under Mount Saint Elias. 2006

 

"Culture cannot be contained as it unfolds. My art enters this stream at many different points, looking backwards, looking forwards, generating its own sound and motion. I am inspired by generations of Tlingit & Unangax̂ creativity and contribute to this wealthy conversation through active curiosity. There is no room in this exploration for the tired prescriptions of the "Indian Art World" and its institutions. Through creating I assert my freedom." -Nicholas Galanin

 

 

Here is the conversation with the Nicholas Galanin:

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Music featured on this episode from the latest Silver Jackson album; Starry Skies Opened Eyes. 
 

More about the artist:

Rumination 3C Print. 2012. Edition of 10. Photographed by Larry Mcneil

Rumination 3
C Print. 2012. Edition of 10. Photographed by Larry Mcneil

Born in Sitka, Alaska, Nicholas Galanin has struck an intriguing balance between his origins and the course of his practice. Having trained extensively in ‘traditional’ as well as ‘contemporary’ approaches to art, he pursues them both in parallel paths. His stunning bodies of work simultaneously preserve his culture and explore new perceptual territory. Galanin studied at the London Guildhall University, where he received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts with honors in Jewelry Design and Silversmithing and at Massey University in New Zealand earning a Master’s degree in Indigenous Visual Arts. Valuing his culture as highly as his individuality, Galanin has created an unusual path for himself. He deftly navigates “the politics of cultural representation”, as he balances both ends of the aesthetic spectrum. With a fiercely independent spirit, Galanin has found the best of both worlds and has given them back to his audience in stunning form. He is also renowned for his musical performances and production as Indian Nick and with Silver Jackson, and is co-founder of Homeskillet Records and Homeskillet Fest, an annual summer music festival in his hometown, Sitka, Alaska.

The American Dream Is Alie And Well. Nicholas Galanin. US Flag, felt, .50 Cal Ammunition, Foam, Gold Leaf, Plastic. 2012

The American Dream Is Alie And Well. Nicholas Galanin. US Flag, felt, .50 Cal Ammunition, Foam, Gold Leaf, Plastic. 2012

Things Are Looking Native, Native's Looking Whiter. Nicholas Galanin. Giclée. 2012

Things Are Looking Native, Native's Looking Whiter. Nicholas Galanin. Giclée. 2012

I Think it Goes Like This. Nicholas Galanin. Wood, Paint. 2012

I Think it Goes Like This. Nicholas Galanin. Wood, Paint. 2012

Modicum. Leonard Getinthecar (Nicholas Galanin & Jerrod Galanin). Disposable coffee cups, riot gear, mannequin, names of non-white people killed extra-judicially by law enforcement officers in the United States, paint. 2014

Modicum. Leonard Getinthecar (Nicholas Galanin & Jerrod Galanin). Disposable coffee cups, riot gear, mannequin, names of non-white people killed extra-judicially by law enforcement officers in the United States, paint. 2014

Inert. Nicholas Galanin. Wolf, felt. 2009

Inert. Nicholas Galanin. Wolf, felt. 2009

www.galan.in
www.silverjackson.com
www.homeskilletfest.com

"I'd like to give a shout out to everyone consciously working towards making this world a better place for us all, to my family & children and to the Black Constellation" -Nicholas Galanin

Conversation with Artist Monica Canilao

In the heart of Oakland, California, Monica Canilao spends her days stitching, painting, printing, and breathing life into the refuse that dominates our time and place. Moving across media, sometimes with friends and sometimes alone, Canilao makes a delicate visual record of the personal and communal. She received a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and has shown in galleries, community spaces, abandoned places and … worldwide. 

"Art is a way to communicate and engage with others transcending distance, time, or place. My images and installations, like the communities and experiences they draw upon, become symbiotic. My life and art are modes of intentional living borrowing from native traditions and contemporary subcultures. You take care of one another. You draw strength and nourishment from your roots. You use and appreciate what you have. "- Monica Canilao

Here is the conversation with the Monica Canilao:

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Music on this episode selected from the band D Numbers album III

More from the artist: 

"The only constant in my life has been that I've always wanted to be creating, building, drawing, altering.  My art practice is a way to generate a personal and living history. My community and collaborators, my roots and their nearly lost traditions, my neighborhood and its trash piles are all integral, necessary parts of my life and art. The way I go through the world, the beauty of people’s effort throughout time, and their subsequent decay end up in my pieces. I look as much to the loving meticulousness of handicrafts as to the techniques of high art. Taking something as ordinary as wood pulp or cloth and passing thread through it can make common things beautiful and useful." - Monica Canilao

Monica Canilao and her collaborative works with artist SWOON

Monica Canilao and her collaborative works with artist SWOON

Monica Canilao and her work with The Painted Desert Project

Monica Canilao and her work with The Painted Desert Project

Monica Canilao, Siren, 2014, for Mimicry. Mixed media, tea bags, lace, collaged paper and thread on found file folder and vintage pin up

Monica Canilao, Siren, 2014, for Mimicry. Mixed media, tea bags, lace, collaged paper and thread on found file folder and vintage pin up

 Sedna of the North. A Collaborative work featured in Monica Canilao's Born From Ruins exhibition

 

Sedna of the North. A Collaborative work featured in Monica Canilao's Born From Ruins exhibition

Connect further with Monica Canilao and her work through her WEBSITE, TUMBLR or INTSTAGRAM

Making the Film: This Is A Stereotype

Art Beat Conversations 20th Episode!!!!

Thank you to all the participating artists and listeners for your continued support for this project! 

The format get's shifted a bit for this celebratory episode marking Art Beat Conversations 20th Episode! Listen in on a conversation from the creators of This Is A Stereotype, an artistic narrative film project about possible causes and effects surrounding Indigenous identity. And as a special bonus for this episode, After the conversation, the podcast will feature the audio from the film. 

One of a kind prints were made by BAD ART printing in South Dakota for This Is A Stereotype project. 

One of a kind prints were made by BAD ART printing in South Dakota for This Is A Stereotype project. 

More about the project This Is A Stereotype:

This Is A Stereotype is a film motivated from an exhibition by artistCannupa Hanska Luger and further inspired by the filmmaker Dylan McLaughlin and creative collaborator Ginger Dunnill.

Luger's body of work, Stereotype: Misconceptions of the Native American exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in 2013. This exhibition used sculpture and sound to address several preconceived notions of Native Americans supported by popular culture. At the end of his exhibition, Luger 'let go' of the ceramic boom-box vessels which embodied various Native American stereotypes, destroying them as a form of performance activism.

Luger felt it would be interesting to allow further dialogue through the medium of film, and began to work with McLaughlin and Dunnill on forming an additional body of work that would socially engage the public in an artistic narrative about possible causes and effects surrounding Indigenous identity. After receiving full funding for the project through Kickstarter, This Is A Stereotype has graduated into it's own unique body of work created collectively by Luger, McLaughlin and Dunnill.

The project is compiled of historical footage sourced from the Archives of the Institute of American Indian Arts "Native American Video Tape Archive, 1976" juxtaposed with imagery and interviews from contemporary artists, scholars and activists from across the United States. This Is A Stereotype invites the viewer to become an active participant in society, thinking critically when making decisions regarding culture and appropriation.

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The idea behind the film is to invite the audience to ask their own questions, not to simply understand the information they view about Native identity and stereotypes in this film, but to utilize that information and become active participants in society, thinking critically when making decisions regarding culture and appropriation. We hope to inspire people to seek out their own answers.

Watch the film HERE:

This Is A Stereotype is an artistic narrative about the possible causes and effects surrounding Indigenous identity with the intention to socially engage the public. The project is compiled of historical footage sourced from the Archives of the Institute of American Indian Arts’ "Native American Video Tape Archive, 1976” juxtaposed with imagery and interviews from contemporary artists, scholars, and activists from across the United States. This Is A Stereotype invites the viewer to become an active participant in society, thinking critically when making decisions regarding culture and appropriation. Learn more about the project at: www.thisisastereotype.com This film is not for profit. Free to stream and download for all uses. Click the download link below for options.

Learn more about the project at: www.thisisastereotype.com

Join the conversation on the This Is A Stereotype FACEBOOK PAGE

a Special thanks to BAD ART printing who created the limited edition print work for This Is A Stereotype!

Conversation with Artist Wendy Red Star

Wendy Red Star is a visual artist who has worked within and between the mediums of photography, sculpture, installation, performance and design. Red Star’s work layers influences drawn from her tribal background (Crow), daily surroundings, aesthetic experiences, collected ephemera and conjured histories that are both real and imagined.

Indian Summer. Four Seasons. Wendy Red Star 2006

Indian Summer. Four Seasons. Wendy Red Star 2006

Music in this episode from Novelle Vague

More about the Artist:

Through Red Star's photographs and sculpture new universes are built, simultaneously urban-rural and high-low with their own language of symbols created from such seemingly disparate sites as HUD houses, rez cars, three legged dogs, powwow culture, proliferative indigenous commoditization, and Red Star's personal collection of memories growing up as a half-breed on the Crow Indian reservation. 

The work represents an insider/outsider view that is wrath with complexity and contradiction, its most salient attributes. Red Star's unruly approach examines a cross section of American cultures and their very consumption while also being a meditation on her own identity. Exploring the intersection between life on the reservation and the world outside of that environment. Red Star thinks of herself as a cultural archivist speaking sincerely about the experience of being a Crow Indian in contemporary society.

find out more about the work of Wendy Red Star on her WEBSITE.

White Squaw series. Wendy Red Star 2014

White Squaw series. Wendy Red Star 2014

Medicine Crow Ledger Drawing Zoo Softies 2014

1880 Crow Peace Delegation Individual Portraits

Circling the camp series. Wend Red Star

Circling the camp series. Wend Red Star