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Curatorial
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Elisa Harkins: Teach Me a Song
The New Gallery, Oct. 30 - Dec. 8, 2023 |
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Wampum/ ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ
images: Ralph Acosta (@rwnacosta)
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Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist and composer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She focuses on translation, language preservation and indigenous musicology. Her work uses the Cherokee and Mvskoke languages over electronic music, with sculpture and the physical body as her tools.
"Teach Me a Song” is titled after one of Harkins’ ongoing projects, where she asks Indigenous friends to teach her a song. APSU’s exhibition will include video, found object sculptures and screen-printed score notations along with Muscogee (Creek) and other Indigenous traditions. “Teach Me a Song” is organized in collaboration with the Crisp Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College (St. Augustine, Florida) and the Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, College of Charleston (Charleston, South Carolina) where the exhibition will run in Spring 2024. In conjunction with the exhibition, Harkins also performed Wampum/ ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, on November 15, in the Trahern Black Box Theater.
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