Postcommodity

Postcommodity, a Southwest Native American Artist collective, was founded in 2007 by Kade Twist and Steve Yazzie[1] Their name refers to the "commodity era" of Native American art trading in the late 1800s and 1900s, with the "post" being in reference to their modern take on traditional Native art forms.

Their current members include Kade Twist and Cristobal Martinez. Former members are Raven Chacon (2009-2018), Steve Yazzie (2007-2010) and Nathan Young. (2007-2015)

Art style
A scare-eye bird repellent balloon made by Postcommodity members Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist, 2015,[2] Art Institute of Chicago

Postcommodity makes use of modern technology (sound, video, etc)[3] in a way that goes against what would be considered as Native American "Commodity Art". Much of this work has been considered as Asmr. Recently, they have been incorporating their work into architecture, such as adding speakers to pre-existing buildings, or creating their own structures.

Another recurring theme in their art is the use of Bird scarer balloons, which contain elements of Native American colors and iconography. Their context for using these balloons is to "function as an intervention repelling the manifestations of the Western worldview and imagination." [4]

In addition to visual art and ASMR, Postcommodity has released music. Much of this music is compiled from other artists, and has been released in the form of LP records.

Artworks

2008
  • Repellent Eye Over Phoenix

2009
  • Worldview Manipulation Therapy
  • Do You Remember When?[5]
  • Dead River

2010
  • My Blood is in the Water
  • If History Moves At the Speed of its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow is Changing
  • It’s My Second Home, But I Have a Very Spiritual Connection With This Place

2011
  • Gallup Motel Butchering
  • The Night is Filled With the Harmonics of Suburban Dreams
  • Radiophonic Territory (Nocturne)
  • A More Just, Verdant and Harmonious Resolution
  • Mother, Teacher, Destroyer
  • Repellent Eye (Winnipeg)

2012
  • With Salvage and Knife Tongue

2013
  • Game Remains (Ongoing)

2014
  • People of Good Will (2014-2016)

2015
  • Repellent Fence / Valla Repelente (US/Mexico Borderlands)[6]
  • Pollination

2016
  • A Very Long Line

2017
  • In Memorium
  • Blind / Curtain[7]
  • The Ears Between Worlds are Always Speaking
  • Coyotaje

2018
From Smoke and Tangled Waters We Carried Fire Home by Postcommodity
  • From Smoke and Tangled Waters We Carried Fire Home

2019
  • The Point of Final Collapse
  • With Each Incentive[8]
  • It Exists in Many Forms

2020
  • Some Reach While Others Clap[9]
  • Let Us Pray for the Water Between Us[10]

Music

2007
  • Postcommodity + Magor

2011
  • The Contour 2011 Sound + Vision LP: Piles of Cougar Pelts (recorded 2001-2011)
  • Your New Age Dream Contains More Blood Than You Imagine

2015
  • We Lost Half the Forest and the Rest Will Burn This Summer

Books

2010
  • Postcommodity + Magor, Postcommodity Publications (PCP)[11]

Exhibitions

2007
  • 4+4+4 Days in Motion Festival, Prague, Czech Republic[1]
  • Intersections, Institute Slavonice, Center For the Future, Slavonice, Czech Republic

2009

2010
  • Muorrajurdagat, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo Norway
  • It Wasn’t the Dream of Golden Cities, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2011
  • Here, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  • Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada.
  • Contour 2011, 5th Bienniel of Sound and Image, Mechelen, Belgium.
  • Half Life: Patterns of Change, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
  • Close Encounters, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada
  • The Night is Filled With the Harmonics of Suburban Dreams, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS

2012
  • 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • Time Lapse / March 2012, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Adelaide International 2012: Restless, Adelaide, Australia

2013

2014
  • Boundary//Battle, Redline, Denver, CO
  • Free State Festival, Lawerence Art Center, Lawerence, KS

2015
  • Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Liberation, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY
  • Image Festival, A Non-Place in A Space, A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON
  • You Are On Indian Land, Radiator Gallery, New York, NY
  • Repellent Fence, US/Mexican Border, Douglas, AZ, U.S., Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mex.
  • The Advice Seekers Want To Be Told Their Right, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
  • Gallup Motel Butchering, CentralTrak Gallery, University of Texas, Dallas, TX
  • Pollination, SouthwestNET: Postcommodity, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

2016
  • Screens and Thresholds, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
  • Visions Into Infinite Archives, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
  • A Very Long Line, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
  • People of Good Will, Musagetes Foundation, Guelph, Canada

2017

2018

2019

Fellowships, Awards, and Grants

2007

2008

2009
  • Artist Project Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts.

2010

2012
  • Creative Capital Artist Grant.

2013
  • Art Matters Grant.

2014

2017

2018
  • Fine Prize, The Fine Foundation.

2019

References
  1. "Postcommodity: About". postcommodity.com. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  2. "Suturing the Borderlands: Postcommodity and Indigenous Presence on the U.S.-Mexico Border - ProQuest". search.proquest.com. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  3. Kelley, Bill (2015-06-01). "Reimagining Ceremonies: A Conversation with Postcommodity". Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry. 39: 26–35. doi:10.1086/682834. ISSN 1465-4253. S2CID 147337992.
  4. "Postcommodity: Repellent Eye Over Phoenix". postcommodity.com. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  5. "Postcommodity" (PDF). minusplato. October 2017.
  6. "Postcommodity Flies Giant Eyes Over Border". artnet News. 2015-08-18. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
  7. "Postcommodity". www.documenta14.de. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  8. "Postcommodity Centers Optimism and Indigenous Philosophies in a New Site-Specific Installation". Hyperallergic. 2019-09-09. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
  9. Schloor, Laura. "Postcommodity "Some Reach While Others Clap" LAXART/Los Angeles". Flash Art. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  10. http://postcommodity.com/LetUsPrayForTheWaterBetweenUs.html. Retrieved 29 September 2020. |first1= missing |last1= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. "Postcommodity: Vitae". postcommodity.com. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
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