KITE: OWÍTAYA

Kite: Owítaya

Friday, November 1

Doors at 6:30 p.m., performance at 7:00 p.m.

The Brick (518 North Western Ave.)

Free

Owítaya (Lakhotayapi for a ‘gathering’) is a graphic score performed by Kite and harpist Jackie Urlick. Reflecting on personal histories and the history of diasporic American Indian peoples in Los Angeles first articulated in the essay and film Three Diffractions of LA, Kite's graphic score exists immaterially, temporarily, sonically between a star chart and a miniature model of the Lost & Found Cocktails and Dancing, once located on National Boulevard.

This performance will engage field recorded methods of nonphysical mapping (storytelling, audible measurements and audio recording). Floating between, the graphic score becomes a 4D realization of a prayer in the Lakota visual language. When people gather on the earth their ancestors gather in a reflected world. Owítaya uses Indigenous research methodologies to propose possibilities of the movement of knowledge between the earth world and the spirit world, and the resonance of locations across time and space.

Lead support for Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism is provided by Getty and PST Art: Art & Science Collide, with additional generous support by The Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Knox Foundation, Teiger Foundation, and the Wilhelm Family Foundation.