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Third Thursday: Elisa Harkins Performance

Overview

Join us for a special performance for Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue. Celebrate the first New Mexico performance of Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, an ongoing project by 2024 Creative Capital awardee Elisa Harkins. Inspired by sheet music of Indigenous music notated by Daniel Chazanoff during the 20th century, Harkins sings in a combination of Cherokee, English, and Muscogee (Creek) to electronic dance music. As an act of Indigenous Futurism, this performance combines disco and Indigenous language in an effort to alter the fate of these endangered idioms through active use, preservation on pressed vinyl, and radio broadcast.

Elisa Harkins is a Cherokee/Muscogee artist and composer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She focuses on lan­guage preservation and Indigenous musicology. She is known for her contemporary songs in Cherokee and Muscogee languages and has exhibited at major inter­national venues including documenta 14, MoMA, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

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