Celebration and collective performance event for 'a point a place a home', Nov. 7

The exhibition reception will include a collective performance with Mekko and student/community participants within the gallery space. We hope you will share this invite amongst friends, family, and colleagues. The gathering is open to the public, free parking with light refreshments.

Created in the gallery using digital media, lumber, and dirt, the installation aims to intervene normalized social and spatial assumptions we make upon being introduced to spaces. The accompanying artist performance is inspired by historic Indigenous gatherings in the Los Angeles area that were held as celebration, unification, and resistance to colonization. Students and community member participants will also share in the performance through poetry reading, music, dance, spoken word, or performance art.

Mekko Harjo is an artist of Shawnee, Muscogee, Seminole, Jewish, enrolled member of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma heritage. He is from Los Angeles, CA but resides in Brooklyn, NY. Harjo is an MFA graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Inspired by the misuse and appropriation of consumer technology, the artist collages elements of installation art, spoken-word performance, and familial exposé into conceptually intricate renderings. Harjo's practice promotes a discourse on the role of individual agency in navigating the shifting perimeters of Indigenous identity under late-capitalism.

Jordan Hill is a Canadian T'Sou-ke Nation artist, currently residing in Victoria, British Columbia. His work alludes to a growing problem within contemporary culture where the line between fact and fiction becomes blurred. How do we navigate a manipulated world where truth is incredibly difficult to locate? Through the intersection of digital and physical environments, he questions the relationship between the notion of both real and virtual subjects. Jordan is an MFA graduate from the University of Victoria, Canada.