Join Wapatah and Remai Modern for the Book Launch of Postcommodity: Time Holds All the Answers

January 14th, 2022 at 4:00PM (EST)

We invite you to join Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge and Remai Modern on Friday, January 14 2022 at 4:00PM (EST) for a virtual book launch featuring readings from the publication Postcommodity: Time Holds All the Answers. Dr. Gerald McMaster will host presenters Roberto Bedoya, Floyd Favel, and Elise Y. Chagas along with Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective currently comprised of Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist.

Please register here:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9KyBps_sT7q7BdSITH_OYA

Purchase the publication:

https://remaimodern.org/shop/product/pre-order-postcommodity-time-holds-all-the-answers?release=desc

Postcommodity: Time Holds All the Answers is published in association with the major solo exhibition on view at Remai Modern September 18, 2021–January 23, 2022.

Publication Contributors

Dr. Gerald McMaster is a leading voice nationally and internationally, with over 30 years of experience in contemporary art, critical theory, museology and Indigenous aesthetics. He is Plains Cree from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation and a member of the Siksika Nation. He served as the Canadian Commissioner for the 1995 Venice Biennale, Artistic Director of the 2012 Biennale of Sydney; and Curator for the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture. McMaster has served as Adjunct Curator for Remai Modern since 2018. He is a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair and Director of Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge at OCAD University in Toronto.

Roberto Bedoya is Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland. Bedoya is also a poet, whose work has appeared in numerous publications, and an art consultant, with projects for Creative Capital Foundation, the Ford Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Urban Institute.

Elise Y. Chagas is a Ph.D. candidate studying modern and contemporary art at Princeton University. She is a 2021-2022 Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Floyd Favel is a cultural theorist, writer and theatre director.  Favel is the curator of the Chief Poundmaker Museum and director of Miyawata Culture Inc., an Indigenous performance festival held yearly on Poundmaker Cree Nation. He has studied theatre in Denmark and Italy and has traveled worldwide in his research on Indigenous Performance

Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective founded in the mid-2000s, currently comprised of Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist. The collective has exhibited internationally, including at documenta14, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany; the 57th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, where they were awarded the Fine Prize; the 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; and the 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia. Recent commissions and solo exhibitions have been presented by Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; and LAXART, Los Angeles. Postcommodity’s historic land art installation Repellent Fence (2015) was realized at the US/Mexico border near Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora.

Bill Kelley Jr. is an educator, curator and writer based in Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California at San Diego and his current research focuses on collaborative and collective art practices in the Americas. He holds the position of Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino art history at California State University Bakersfield.