Sky Hopinka: Disfluencies

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In his practice, filmmaker, artist, and writer Sky Hopinka investigates concepts of Indigenous homeland and landscape, language as a container of culture, memory, and the play between the known and the unknowable. The title of his new body of work, Disfluencies, refers to disruptions that occur in the flow of speech.
Hopinka is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. In 2019 he was a fellow at Harvard&#8217;s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the Sundance Institute. His work has been featured in festivals and exhibitions at the ImagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Sundance, LACE, the Whitney Biennial, and the Front Triennial. Hopkina serves as the assistant professor in film production at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.

Artist Sky Hopinka talks Standing Rock, growing up on the powwow circuit, and his show at Mia

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Join us for an evening with filmmaker and artist Sky Hopinka. His practice addresses Indigenous homeland and landscape, languages as containers of culture, memory, and the play between the known and the unknowable. Hopkina will discuss his artistic practice, including his exhibition at Mia (March 12–July 19, 2020).
Sky Hopinka is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians. In 2019, he was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and a Sundance Art of Nonfiction fellow. His work has been featured at the ImagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Sundance, LACE, the Whitney Biennial, and the Front Triennial. Hopinka is an assistant professor in film production at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.
$10, $5 My Mia members; free to members of the Contemporary Art and Native American Art affinity groups. Click <a href="https://ticket.artsmia.org/">here</a> to reserve tickets.

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Sky Hopinka: Disfluencies

Sky Hopinka: Disfluencies

July 13, 2020 - November 15, 2020Gallery 369, Gallery 370 Free Exhibition

July 13, 2020 - November 15, 2020
Gallery 369, Gallery 370
Free Exhibition