ARCH Lecture: Santiago X | Koasati/Chamoru
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THE DEATH OF ARCHITECTURE X THE POST-HUMAN WORLD
Our acceleration towards the post-anthropocene forces us to question our active participation in the design or destruction of our collective future. Indigenous futurist and multidisciplinary artist, Santiago X, will discuss this threshold through the lens of the disappearing Indigenous city and the implications for a timely reappearance.
ABOUT SANTIAGO
SANTIAGO X, M.Arch, MFA is an Indigenous futurist and multidisciplinary artist specializing in land, architectural, and new media installation. He is an enrolled citizen of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana (Koasati) and Indigenous Chamoru from the Island of Guam U.S.A (Hacha’Maori).
Santiago X has exhibited and designed Internationally, including The World Expo in Shanghai, China, Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria. He is a 2019 3Arts Award Winner, a New City Top 50 living Chicago artist, and the first Native American contributor in the Chicago Architecture Biennial. In 2020, X was commissioned by the U.S. State Department to be the lead artist of The American Arts Incubator Brazil, where he traveled and conducted workshops in Brazil, culminating in a virtual reality exhibition, entitled, PORTAL.
Currently, Santiago X is reinvigorating the ancestral mound building practice of his Koasati people, via two large-scale augmented public earthwork installations along the Chicago and Des Plaines River in Chicago, Illinois. This is notably the first time effigy earthworks have been constructed by Indigenous peoples in North America since the founding of the United States. POKTO ČINTO (Serpent Twin Mound) publicly opened on Indigenous Peoples Day, October, 14th 2019.
Santiago X, received a Bachelors of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado, a Masters of Architecture from the University of Southern California, and a Masters of Fine Arts Studio in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE FALL 2020 BERKELEY ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES, AND IT IS SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE. OPEN TO ALL!
IMAGE: HAYO TIKBA (THE FIRE INSIDE), TRADITIONAL HUT MADE OF INVASIVE NON-INDIGENOUS PLANT SPECIES HARVESTED FROM CHICAGO CITY STREETS, EARTH FROM SOVEREIGN TRIBAL LANDS, PROJECTION MAPPING, SPHERICAL VIDEO | COMMISSIONED BY THE 2019 CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL
IMAGE: THE RETURN (O:LAČI OKHIČA), DEMATERIALIZED EMBRACE OF SELF-CONSTRUCTED CONSTRAINTS, HUMANITY DISPLACED AS WE LOSE OUR SENSE OF PLACE, FACES CHANGE, EMOTIONS REARRANGE, SCRIPTED REPLACEMENT IN A SPACE WITHOUT SPACE | LIGHT AND SOUND, 2018 | INSTALLED AT ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2018, LINZ, AUSTRIA
IMAGE: GHOST TOUCH, 2020
IMAGE: SOVEREIGN, INVASIVE / NON-INDIGENOUS PHRAGMITES GRASS, REBAR | BRIDGEPORT, CHICAGO, IL, 2019
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