Conversation with Demian DinéYazhi´ from R.I.S.E. Indigenous
ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning)
R.I.S.E. Indigenous
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
For the last ALT + SHIFT + COMM conversation of 2020 we will welcome Demian DinéYazhi´ from R.I.S.E. Indigenous to discuss strategies of decolonial and communal organizing at the intersection of art, activism, and curating.
ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) will then take a recess and will return in 2021 with new conversations and an updated format!
R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment is an Indigenous initiative dedicated to Indigenous issues of Decolonization, Survivance, prison abolition, dismantling white supremacy and heteropatriarchal structures, supporting the evolution of Indigenous cultures and traditions, and amplifying the voices of Queer, Trans, Gender Gradient/Non-Conforming, Two Spirit, and Matriarchal communities. R.I.S.E. fosters community through the reclamation of identity, awareness as resistance, and by continually supporting Indigenous communities. R.I.S.E. is a collective presence of Indigenous ancestors. R.I.S.E. is a collective resistance created, nurtured, and led by Indigenous peoples.
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) and 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 gender communities post colonization. They are a survivor of attempted european genocide, forced assimilation, manipulation, sexual & gender violence, capitalist sabotage, and hypermarginalization in a colonized country that refuses to center its politics and philosophies around the Indigenous Peoples whose Land it wrongfully occupies and refuses to rightfully give back. They live and work in a post-post-apocalyptic world unafraid to fail.
www.facebook.com/RISEIndigenous
IG: @riseindigenous
https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/artists/demian-din%C3%A9yazhi-and-rise/
