Broken Boxes Podcast

This is the THIRD episode featuring a collection of live feed Facebook posts from water protectors providing first hand accounts and information about what has taken place from November 7th to November 9th 2016 regarding current events unfolding at Standing Rock, North Dakota. Material rebroadcast here from the following Facebook pages November 7-9 2016: Indigenous Environmental Network Indigenous...

This is the SECOND episode in a series featuring a collection of live stream Facebook posts from water protectors and features first hand accounts and information regarding what has taken place October 27th to October 30th 2016 in Standing Rock, ND. Broken Boxes Podcast is assisting this information to reach further than the one media forum of Facebook and to share this story in the way the water...

This episode urgently rebroadcasts FB live footage from the water protectors through Broken Boxes Podcast is an attempt to allow this information to reach further than one media forum, to share this story in the way the water protectors creating these live broadcasts have asked us all to do. To get the message out into the world, and break media blackout. We are all connected. Not one single perso...

I had the opportunity to travel to Standing Rock, North Dakota last week to deliver supplies from New Mexico to the water protectors currently on the front lines. Although my stay was very short with a specific trajectory of supply delivery, I took an afternoon to walk around Camp of the Sacred Stones and listen to story from folks who have joined in solidarity and support of this movement. I simp...

This episode completes the series regarding the #callresponse project and provides interviews and reflections from the culminating exhibition held at grunt gallery in October 2016 with guest respondents, accompanying programming, and a catalogue. Moving between specific sites, online space and the gallery, #callresponse focuses on forms of performance, process and translation. An online platform u...

Tarah Hogue is the 2016 Audain Aboriginal Curatorial Fellow with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and Curator at grunt gallery in Vancouver. Her work with Indigenous People in Canada aims to decenter institutional space and history. Using collaborative methodologies and a careful attentiveness to place, she prioritizes responsible research methodologies of Indigenous knowledge that are grounde...

For the #callresponse project Christi Belcourt works with traditional teacher and collaborator Isaac Murdoch to hold ceremony with plants and animals as her community with The Onaman Collective. Just as the natural world is depicted symbolically as medicine in her work through the act of painting she aims to take action in an effort to restore balance as a human being amongst many living beings. H...

Broken Boxes Podcast is proud to present this episode featuring Marcia Crosby, Tsimshian-Haida writer, art historian, and educator from British Columbia and respondent for Tania Willard. This is the eight installation in a series of interviews featuring participants and their respondents from the socially engaged project #callresponse. Marcia Crosby is Tsimshian-Haida writer, art historian, and ed...

Broken Boxes Podcast is proud to present this episode as the seventh installation in a series of interviews featuring artists and their respondents from the socially engaged project #callresponse. In this episode Artist and Curator Tania Willard speaks about her curatorial practice and breaks down the themes and materials she is currently focusing on in her artistic practice. She reflects on livin...

In this episode Brooklyn based performance artists Esther Neff and IV Castellanos share insight on collective organizing and their involvement in various performance hives including Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) which was founded and is co-directed by Esther Neff. We also hear about how location, collaboration, process and materials influence various actions and shape their practices. They...

In this episode, Maria Hupfield speaks about her experiences living as an artist in New York, the influence her upbringing has had on her lifestyle, and shares reflections on where she finds inspiration to fuel her creative process. Maria speaks about her recent project It Is Never Just About Sustenance or Pleasure as part of SITElines, which is the second installment in SITE Santa Fe’s biennial s...

In this conversation, Tanya Tagaq offers an honest reflection to being an established recording artist today. She speaks about her relationship with her incredible band, her ideas surrounding being a mother and a touring artist, ways in which she practices self care and she shares her views on reconciliation and the important role that art plays in society. Tanya also speaks about her past collabo...

Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory a uaajeerneq performer of Greenlandic mask dancing, music, drum­-dancing, storytelling and acting. Her career has allowed her to travel all across Canada and to many wondrous parts of the world. Laakkuluk’s poetry was recently commissioned for the exhibit Fifth World (2105), Wanda Nanibus Curator, Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon. Her collaboration of the Belly to the Moo(201...

The first in a series of interviews featuring participating artists from the socially engaged project #callresponse. Ursula A. Johnsons The Land Sings follows from an audio­based endurance performance wherein Johnson collaborated with a Mi’kmaw singer/songwriter in Antigonish, NS to create a song for the land. The land is recognized as a feminine body and a matriarch by several Indigenous nations....

This Episode will serve as an introduction to the #callresponse project series and will feature interview with Artists Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard. Each episode released through August 2016 will highlight an artist involved in the #callresponse project. #callresponse presents the work of First Nations, Inuit and Métis women and artists as central to the strength and healing of th...

"I am here to create the most brilliant, evocative, challenging, innovative, impactful art I am capable of, to have THE most fun while doing it, and to leave a trail of empowering, inspiring interactions in my wake like a spirit boat traveling the lake of existence." - Micah Blacklight The most recent project Micah BlackLight has created and which we talk thoroughly about in this podcast...

"I believe that artists have a responsibility to be cultural producers and agents of social change; my art practice is an effort to invest contemporary Native American culture with an international sense of place. My work is informed by the experience of living alongside immigrant communities in New York City, a place typically characterized by sentiments of anonymity and heterogeneity. Curre...

In this episode we hear how Artist Dylan McLaughlin finds a sustainable creative outlet through filmmaking. Dylan looks back over the past couple of years at the friendships he has carved out while creating visual portraits of Artists for various museums and galleries. He talks on collaboration and his personal creative experience with the medium of film. How being Indigenous allows him to relate...

In this podcast photographer Te Rawhitiroa shares how he has come to his unique and empowering photographic style which focuses on people, performance, and our relationship to place. In this episode, we hear Te Rawhitiroa break down his experience of traveling the world, connecting to various Indigenous cultures and his experience being welcomed into community through protest and celebration. We h...

Lauren HIggins ignites experience, pioneering new ways of working in organizations and enterprises that help both teams and leaders respond to the challenges and opportunities of the sustainability era. Lauren is known for her interdisciplinary work in organizational development and design, event production and curation, economic innovation, and her focus in collaborative governance, and learning...

When this podcast project first began, one of the first artists interviewed was Cannupa Hanska Luger (Episode 2). The episode was an insight into artist Cannupa Hanska's past and how he came to practice his art as we see it evolve today. Now as this podcast develops further, we loop back around and touch base with Cannupa Hanska again to hear about where his art is now. In this episode we wil...

Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos is currently the Director of the LGBTQ Resource Center at the University of New Mexico. In this role, Alma Rosa is committed to creating a space that provides service to UNM students, faculty and staff of all gender identities and sexual orientations through support, advocacy, education and safety. She has also been a community organizer in her hometown of Albuquerque, NM...

Cara Romero is creating monumental fine art works that are representative of her editorial and photo documentary background. Her work is a response to current events and issues in Indian Country from environmental impact on indigenous communities to cultural appropriation to the portrayal of indigenous women in popular culture. She is a dedicated photographer, cultural activist, wife and mother.

"I feel it is a creative duty of mine to represent native women in a positive manner, and to show the world that we are still here, that we still have a voice. Our stories are important and so are our people and history. I intend to explore filmmaking as an art form and create collections of moving images as a voice of visual poetry." -Razelle Benally

"The characters in my work, which are often female, providing a commentary on women within traditional and contemporary cultures. The subjects become a piece to embrace and confront the natural attributes women possess and add to the forefront of society. I aim to provide a glimpse at women not only in contemporary culture but throughout time, as I feel it is inherent to provide an image for...