Community/Nation/Tribe: enrolled citizen of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana (Koasati)
Materials/Processes: video; games; installation
Themes: futurism, land back, identity, history
Online Resources:
- https://studiox.art/
- https://thisispublicparking.com/posts/indigenous-futurism-is-now-in-conversation-with-santiago-x
- https://chicagopublicartgroup.org/artist/santiago-x/
Statements/Bios in Artists’ Words:
The trajectory of my practice is an exploration of the human interface between our built environment, technology, history, futurity, our own self-relevance, and how we navigate this relationship to construct our notions of order. As an Indigenous Futurist, I believe that art can transcend representation and become something sacred that embodies life itself. I believe that through a multiplicity of creation and being, our knowledge can be embedded into the landscape providing access for future generations of prosperity. My work directly engages the notions of a post-human world, but actualizes to activate the possibility of our own prosperity, by painting our self-constructed limitations and deconstructing them.
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