Postcommodity. Juried Artist
The Renshaws Gallery
Opening Event: 16:00, Sat 22 June
Event Dates: 21-30 June
Artist Statement
From Here to Another Time features Postcommodity artists Kade Twist and Cristobal Martinez using a prototype of their purpose-built sound-engine for a forthcoming project called Cosmovisión. These recordings document Postcommodity performing unusual duets using earcons associated with sounds that reflect the places they are from (like a Kit Fox and Sonic Boom). With their sound engine the artists use granular synthesis techniques to tell a set of short stories that underscore their experiences growing up in Bakersfield, California and Alcalde, New Mexico. The recording reveals a curious, peculiar, urgent, and personal exploration of land, culture and community. Postcommodity believes that this “instrument” enables its performers the opportunity to collaboratively engage in symbolic exchange and the intersubjective negotiation of meaning.
Track 1 Sprinkler and Bullfrog
Track 2 Tule Elk and Thunder
Track 3 Gun Disassembly and Pumpjack Track 4 Kit Fox and Sonic Boom
Track 5 Bird and Door
Track 6 Lowrider and Foundry
Track 7 Dogs and Dove
About the artists
Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary art collective comprised of Cristóbal Martínez (Genizaro, Manito, Xicano), and Kade L. Twist (Cherokee). Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever-expanding, multinational, multiracial and multi-ethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence. Postcommodity works to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere.
Postcommodity are the recipients of grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2010), Creative Capital (2012), Art Matters (2013), Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (2014), Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (2017), Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship (2017-2018), Harker Fund of the San Francisco Foundation (2018-2019), Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Shift Award (2021), Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions (2022), and the Latinx Artist Fellowship (2023-2024). The collective has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: Contour the 5th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, BE; Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CAN; Adelaide International 2012, Adeliade, AUS; 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AUS; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Art in General, New York, NY; documenta14, Athens, GR and Kassel, DE; the 57th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, PA; Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, CAN; and their historic land art installation Repellent Fence at the U.S./Mexico border near Douglas, AZ and Agua Prieta, SON. The collective was awarded the Fine Prize for From Smoke and Tangled Waters, They Carried Fire Home, commissioned for the 57th ed. Carnegie International.
Credits: Postcommodity