WATCH the STTLMNT launch event

This is a live recording of our online launch event on October 13, 2020. Special thanks to A Blade of Grass for producing this component of our Digital Occupation launch! 

The 90-minute event on Zoom included a land acknowledgement by Regan DeLoggans and Korina Emmerich of Indigenous Kinship Collective; live performance of new music by Laura Ortman; screening of a trailer and discussion with filmmaker Razelle Benally, who has traveled around the country documenting artists at home; a discussion of active, non-extractive, collaborative creative work with STTLMNTartists Cannupa Hanska Luger, Marie Watt, Emily Johnson, and Jade Begay and Stina Hamlin with Blood Memory; concluding with perspectives from UK collaborators Karen and Fiona Evans, known as The Conscious Sisters collective, discussing how their Clan-Kind project helps people living in Plymouth develop a deeper connection between place & community by bringing together diverse groups to learn about the natural or built heritage, including acknowledgement of the legacy of indigenous Welsh heritage. The event also included an opportunity and call to action to participate in the each/other collaborative artwork, under the direction of Luger and Watt, to be featured in their forthcoming dual-exhibition at the Denver Art Museum in 2021.

The event was presented by STTLMNT, with special thanks to its US Producer, Ginger Dunnill, A Blade of Grass and Printed Matter. Participants also received a digital copy of the fall 2020 issue of A Blade of Grass Magazine, “Confronting Enemies,” featuring an interview with Prerana Reddy and Cannupa Hanska Luger, available also for download on https://www.abladeofgrass.org/magazine/ and www.printedmatter.org.