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POSTCOMMODITY (USA)

FROM HERE TO ANOTHER TIME


In conjunction with ISEA 2024: Everywhen
29th International Symposium on Electronic Art

June 21 -  30, 2024


Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary art collective comprised of Cristóbal Martínez (Genizaro, Manito, Xicano), and Kade L. Twist (Cherokee). 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 multi-ethnic 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 Joan Mitchell Foundation (2010), Creative Capital (2012), Art Matters (2013), Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (2014), Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (2017), Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship (2017-2018), Harker Fund of the San Francisco Foundation (2018-2019), Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Shift Award (2021), Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions (2022), and the Latinx Artist Fellowship (2023-2024). The collective has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: Contour the 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, BE; Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CAN; Adelaide International 2012, Adeliade, AUS; 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AUS; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Art in General, New York, NY; documenta14, Athens, GR and Kassel, DE; the 57th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, PA; Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, CAN; and their historic land art installation Repellent Fence at the U.S./Mexico border near Douglas, AZ and Agua Prieta, SON. The collective was awarded the Fine Prize for From Smoke and Tangled Waters, They Carried Fire Home, commissioned for the 57th ed. Carnegie International.

Postcommodity acknowledges the important contributions of its previous collaborators: Raven Chacon (2009-2018), Steven Yazzie (2007-2010), Nathan Young (2007-2015), Adam Ingram-Goble (Game Remains), 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 represented by Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, USA




From Smoke and Tangled Waters We Carried Fire Home (2018) Sculptural graphic score for solo jazz performance. Steel, coal, glass. 3200 sq feet. Commissioned by the 57th Carnegie International Winner of the 2018 Fine Prize Installation views and performance, Hall of Scultpure, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Photos by Bryan Conley, Courtesy of the 57th Ed. Carnegie International

From Smoke and Tangled Waters We Carried Fire Home, 2018.
Sculptural graphic score for solo jazz performance.
Steel, coal, glass. 3200 sq feet.
Commissioned by the 57th Carnegie International
Winner of the 2018 Fine Prize
Installation views and performance, Hall of Scultpure,
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.
Photos by Bryan Conley, Courtesy of the 57th Ed. Carnegie International







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