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Postcommodity – Free Live Performance – Tuesday, Feb 23 @ 7PM

POSTCOMMODITY
Free Live Performance
 Tuesday, February 23
7PM
@Grand Central Art Center

Raven Chacon, Cristí­³bal Martí­­nez, and Kade L. Twist

Working as an improvised music and noise ensemble, with custom acoustic instruments as well as modified analog oscillators, deer antlers, sine tone generators, and hunting calls, Postcommodity will perform a structured nine-song-cycle from their recent LP  We Lost Half The Forest, And The Rest Will Burn This Summer.

Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristí­³bal Martí­­nez, and Kade L. Twist. Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever-expanding, multinational, multiracial and multiethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence. Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere. Postcommodity are the recipients of grants from the Telluride Institute (2007), American Composers Forum (2008), Arizona Commission on the Arts (2009), Elly Kay Fund (2010), Joan Mitchell Foundation (2010), Creative Capital (2012), Art Matters (2013), and the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (2014). In 2011 the collective’s work was featured in “Close Encounters,” an international Indigenous exhibition exhibited in multiple venues throughout the city of Winnipeg, CA; Contour the 5th Biennial of the Moving Image in Mechelen, Belgium; Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CA; “Half Life: Patterns of Change,” Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM; “The Night is Filled With the Harmonics of Suburban Dreams,” Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS; “Here,” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum; 18th Biennale of Sydney in Sydney, Australia; Adelaide International in Adelaide, Australia; and Time Lapse, Site Santa Fe, in Santa Fe, NM. In 2013, Postcommodity exhibited their work at the Headlands Center for the Arts, as well as opened their art space, Spirit Abuse in Albuquerque, NM. In 2015, the collective  staged a site-specific 2 mile long land installation,  Repellent Fence, at the US./Mexican border near Douglas, AZ / Agua Prieta, Sonora.

Postcommodity acknowledges the important contributions of its previous collaborators: Steven Yazzie (2007-2010), Nathan Young (2007-2015), Andrew McCord (If History Moves at the Speed of Its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow is Changing, and Promoting a More Just, Verdant and Harmonious Resolution), Annabel Wong (Dead River) and Existence AD (Dead River).

Postcommodity is currently  Grand Central Art Center artists-in-residence in the development of a new project.  Support for the GCAC artist-in-residence program has been provided by a grant from  The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

More information on Postcommodity can be found online at:
http://postcommodity.com/