Learning with the St Lawrence

Field Guide: Suzanne Kite

“PROFILE OF THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER BETWEEN MONTREAL AND QUEBEC”

ARTIST STATEMENT

Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University, and research assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance practice. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fibre sculptures, immersive video & sound installations. She is a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, and a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow.

http://kitekitekitekite.com

Created in 2022.

Uses sounds of St. Lawrence River, movement, and a camera.

Field Recordist: Bettina Perez.

Videographer: Robbie Wing.