Demian DinĆ©YazhiĀ“&
R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment
A Nation Is A Massacre, 2018
Installation shots of A Nation Is A Massacre at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.Ā The show runs from May 17 - July 8, 2018.
Pioneer Works | 3rd Flood Galleries
159 Pioneer St | Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
A Nation is a Massacre, the first New York institutional solo exhibition by artist/activist initiative R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment & Demian DinĆ©Yazhiā, its founder, provides a space aimed at creating awareness about ongoing inhumane acts of settler-induced violence against Indigenous bodies. Utilizing Pioneer Worksā risograph machine, which in operation & aesthetic resembles silkscreen, DinĆ©Yazhiā will be producing a wall-based montage of text & image-based posters on-site. With their political aphorisms, all-caps fonts resembling newspaper headlines, & graphic images & colors, they resemble activist agitprop first popularized by Soviet Russia in the early 20th Century & later adopted & refashioned by artists in the wheat-pasting tradition, like Jenny Holzer & the Guerilla Girls.
Unlike these artistic forebears, however, who excluded Indigenous womxn & other Indigenous communities, DinĆ©Yazhiā focuses exclusively on these marginalized groups, noting that, āThe details are gruesome and american & as patriotic as gun violence & mass murder. A Nation Is a Massacre considers over 500 years of mass shootings and massacre, missing and murdered indigenous womxn, queers, trans, gender gradient/nonconforming, & two spirit folx, and numerous instances of environmental racism/injustice that continue to be ignored by citizens of a colonized country.ā
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