In Conversation: Hamza Walker with Postcommodity & Justin Richland
03.08.20 / 2:00pm
Postcommodity (Cristobal Martinez & Kade Twist)
Please join us this Sunday at 2:00 pm for an informal discussion between Postcommodity (Cristobal Martinez and Kade Twist), director of LAXART, Hamza Walker, and Justin Richland, associate professor of anthropology and Native American studies at the University of California Irvine.
Conceived as a permanent gesture, Postcommodity's site specific installation Some Reach While Others Clap, features two I-beams that have been given lowrider paint jobs. The work will be in the care of LAXART. This discussion will address the issue of cultural stewardship and its speculative relationship to contemporary artistic practices.
Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary collaborative self- described as a shared Indigenous lens through which to examine and respond to the ongoing narrative of colonialism.
Justin Richland is an associate professor of anthropology and Native American studies at the University of California Irvine. Also trained as a lawyer, his areas of expertise include contemporary Native American law, politics, art and ethnographic museology. In 2014, he was appointed Adjunct Curator of North American Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History and in 2015 he was appointed to his second term of service by the Hopi Tribal Government as Associate Justice of the Hopi Appellate Court. In addition to his scholarship and advocacy, he also co-curated an exhibition of the art of Rhonda Holy Bear and Chris Pappan, two contemporary Native American artists, which opened at the Field Museum of Chicago in November 2016. He was named a J.S. Guggenheim Fellow in April 2016.
All of our events are free and open to the public. No ticket is required. Seating is first come, first serve.
Funding provided by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.