Postcommodity, a Southwest Native American

Artist collective An artist collective is an initiative that is the result of a group of artists working together, usually under their own management, towards shared aims. The aims of an artist collective can include almost anything that is relevant to the need ...

, was founded in 2007 by Kade Twist and Steve Yazzie Their name refers to the "commodity era" of

Native American art Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the visual artistic practices of the indigenous peoples of the Americas from ancient times to the present. These include works from South America and North America, which includes ...

trading in the late 1800s and 1900s, with the "post" being in reference to their modern take on traditional Native art forms. Their current members include Kade Twist and Cristobal Martinez. Former members are

Raven Chacon Raven Chacon (born 1977) is a Diné-American composer, musician and artist. Born in Fort Defiance, Arizona within the Navajo Nation, Chacon became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, for his '' Voiceless Mass'' in 2022. ...

(2009-2018), Steve Yazzie (2007-2010) and Nathan Young. (2007-2015)

Art style

Postcommodity makes use of modern technology (sound, video, etc.) in a way that goes against what would be considered as Native American "Commodity Art". Much of this work has been considered as Asmr. Recently, they have been incorporating their work into architecture, such as adding speakers to pre-existing buildings, or creating their own structures. Another recurring theme in their art is the use of

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balloons, which contain elements of Native American colors and iconography. Their context for using these balloons is to "function as an intervention repelling the manifestations of the Western worldview and imagination." In addition to visual art and ASMR, Postcommodity has released music. Much of this music is compiled from other artists, and has been released in the form of LP records.

Artworks

2008

* Repellent Eye Over Phoenix

2009

* Worldview Manipulation Therapy * Do You Remember When? * Dead River

2010

* My Blood is in the Water * If History Moves At the Speed of its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow is Changing * It's My Second Home, But I Have a Very Spiritual Connection With This Place

2011

* Gallup Motel Butchering * The Night is Filled With the Harmonics of Suburban Dreams * Radiophonic Territory (Nocturne) * A More Just, Verdant and Harmonious Resolution * Mother, Teacher, Destroyer * Repellent Eye (Winnipeg)

2012

* With Salvage and Knife Tongue

2013

* Game Remains (Ongoing)

2014

* People of Good Will (2014-2016)

2015

* Repellent Fence / Valla Repelente (US/Mexico Borderlands) * Pollination

2016

* A Very Long Line

2017

* In Memorium * Blind / Curtain * The Ears Between Worlds are Always Speaking * Coyotaje

2018

* From Smoke and Tangled Waters We Carried Fire Home

2019

* The Point of Final Collapse * With Each Incentive * It Exists in Many Forms

2020

* Some Reach While Others Clap * Let Us Pray for the Water Between Us

Music

2007

* Postcommodity + Magor

2011

* The Contour 2011 Sound + Vision LP: Piles of Cougar Pelts (recorded 2001–2011) * Your New Age Dream Contains More Blood Than You Imagine

2015

* We Lost Half the Forest and the Rest Will Burn This Summer

Books

2010

* Postcommodity + Magor, Postcommodity Publications (PCP){{Cite web, url=http://postcommodity.com/Vitae.html, title=Postcommodity: Vitae, website=postcommodity.com, access-date=2020-03-04

Exhibitions

2007

* 4+4+4 Days in Motion Festival, Prague, Czech Republic * Intersections, Institute Slavonice, Center For the Future, Slavonice, Czech Republic

2009

* Martha and Mary Street Fair, Arizona State University Art Museum Happening * Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures, Arizona State University Art Museum * Worldview Manipulation Therapy, Ice House, Phoenix, AZ

2010

* Muorrajurdagat, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo Norway * It Wasn't the Dream of Golden Cities,

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) is a public tribal land-grant college in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The college focuses on Native American art. It operates the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), which is housed in the historic ...

, Santa Fe, NM

2011

* Here, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA * Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada. * Contour 2011, 5th Bienniel of Sound and Image, Mechelen, Belgium. * Half Life: Patterns of Change, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM * Close Encounters, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada * The Night is Filled With the Harmonics of Suburban Dreams,

Lawrence Arts Center The Lawrence Arts Center is located in Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride ...

, Lawrence, KS

2012

* 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia * Time Lapse / March 2012, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico * Adelaide International 2012: Restless, Adelaide, Australia

2013

* It's My Second Home, But I Have a Very Spiritual Connection With This Place,

Headlands Center for the Arts Headlands Center for the Arts hosts an internationally recognized artist-in-residence program, and interdisciplinary public programs. It is situated in a campus of artist-renovated military buildings in the Marin Headlands, in Marin County, Cali ...

, Sausalito, CA

2014

* Boundary//Battle, Redline, Denver, CO * Free State Festival, Lawerence Art Center, Lawerence, KS

2015

* Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Liberation, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY * Image Festival, A Non-Place in A Space, A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON * You Are On Indian Land, Radiator Gallery, New York, NY * Repellent Fence, US/Mexican Border, Douglas, AZ, U.S., Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mex. * The Advice Seekers Want To Be Told Their Right,

Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. With encyclopedic collections of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, the DAM is one of the largest art museums between ...

, Denver, CO * Gallup Motel Butchering, CentralTrak Gallery,

University of Texas, Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is one of the largest public universities in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas system. It wa ...

, TX * Pollination, SouthwestNET: Postcommodity,

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) in the state of Arizona is a museum in the Old Town district of downtown Scottsdale, Arizona. The museum is dedicated to exhibiting modern works of art, design and architecture. The Museum has four ...

, Scottsdale, AZ

2016

* Screens and Thresholds,

Presentation House Gallery The Polygon Gallery (formerly known as the Presentation House Gallery) is an art gallery in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atla ...

, North Vancouver, BC * Visions Into Infinite Archives, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA * A Very Long Line, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM * People of Good Will, Musagetes Foundation, Guelph, Canada

2017

* In Around Beyond, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA * I am you, you are too,

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, to ...

, Minneopolis, MN *

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a perman ...

, Toronto, ON * documenta14, Kassel, DE * documenta14, Athens, GR * 2017 Whitney Biennial,

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–194 ...

, New York, NY * Resistance After Nature, Haverford Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA * Land Art - Broken Ground New Beginnings, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL * A Very Long Line, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada * Coyotaje, Art in General, New York, NY

2018

* 57th Carnegie International, 2018,

Carnegie Museum of Art The Carnegie Museum of Art, is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was at what is now the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsbur ...

, Pittsburgh, PA * Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment, Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ * Califas: Art of the US-Mexico Borderlands, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA * Hyperobjects, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX * Coyotaje, Art Gallery of

York University York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...

, Toronto, Canada

2019

* how the light gets in, 2019, Johnson Museum of Art,

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

, Ithaca, NY *

Desert X Desert X is a Site-specific art, site-specific, contemporary art exhibition that is held in the Coachella Valley in Southern California. The inaugural Desert X was held from February 25 to April 30, 2017, and has held subsequent exhibitions every ...

, 2019, Coachella Valley, CA * Some Reach While Others Clap, LAXArt, Los Angeles, CA * The Point of Final Collapse, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA * With Each Incentive, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Fellowships, Awards, and Grants

2007

Telluride Institute The Telluride Institute (TI) was founded in 1984 in the resort town of Telluride, Colorado, by John Lifton, Pamela Zoline, John Clute, John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, authors of the ''Megatrends'' books, and Amory and Hunter Lovins of the Ro ...

Fellowship for a residency at the Center for the Future in the Czech Republic.

2008

* Common Ground Grant, First Nations Composers Imitative, American Composers Forum

2009

* Artist Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts.

2010

Joan Mitchell Foundation Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper. She was an active participant in the New York School of artis ...

Painters and Sculptors Grant. * Harpo Foundation Grant. *

National Museum of the American Indian The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum in the United States devoted to the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution group of museums and research centers. The museum has three ...

, Expressive Arts Grant. * Elly Kay Fund Award for excellence in contemporary art.

2012

* Creative Capital Artist Grant.

2013

* Art Matters Grant.

2014

Native Arts and Cultures Foundation The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports Native American artists, culture bearers, and Native-led arts organizations, providing them with support through fellowships and project funding. ...

Grant.

2017

* Art of Change Fellowship,

Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a US$25,000 gift from Edsel Ford. By 1947, after the death ...

. * USArtist International Grant, Mid Atlantic Art Foundation.

2018

* Fine Prize, The Fine Foundation.

2019

* The Harker Fund of The

San Francisco Foundation San Francisco Foundation is a San Francisco Bay Area philanthropy organization. It is one of the largest community foundations Community foundations (CFs) are instruments of civil society designed to pool donations into a coordinated investment and ...

References

External links

Official website

Bockley Gallery
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