Untitled Performance

Abstract

In 2009 the artist began researching specific historical events that affected the Alutiiq of Kodiak Island, Alaska. This research has compelled her to build a body of work that investigates specific histories in relation to the present moment.

This untitled performance at Mapping Resistances in 2010, was a response to Wanda Nanibush’s curatorial focus on the 20th anniversary of the Oka resistance. Through the lens of my research into Alutiiq history, I performed a poetic, meditative process of locating, excavating and tracing memory in the body through a series of actions that recall generations of Alutiiq women.