Live @ LOW END | Ya Tseen

Bemis Center facilitates the creation, presentation, and understanding of contemporary art through an international residency program, exhibitions, and educational programs.

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

Nicholas Galanin is Tlingit and Unangax̂; he creates from his perspective as an Indigenous man.

Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts

FREE admission. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID-19 test is required for in person attendance. Read more about our COVID Safety Policy at bemiscenter.org/visit.The performance will also stream live at <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/bemiscenter" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">twitch.tv/bemiscenter </a>and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/bemiscenter" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">facebook.com/bemiscenter</a>. Twitch account not required.Nicholas Galanin is one of the most vital voices in contemporary art. Born in Sheet’ka (Sitka, Alaska), Galanin is Tlingit and Unangax̂; he creates from his perspective as an Indigenous man. His work calls for an accounting of the damages done to land and life by unfettered capitalism while envisioning and advocating alternate possibilities. For the 2020 Biennale of Sydney, he excavated the shape of the shadow cast by the monumental statue of Captain James Cook, a call for the burial of monuments to violent histories, which ArtNEWS and Artsy called a defining work of 2020. Land Swipe—a painted deer hide that depicts the NYC subway map, marked with selected sites of police violence against Black youth—was called one of “the most important art moments in 2020” by The New York Times. His work spans sculpture, video, installation, photography, jewelry and music; advocating Indigenous sovereignty, racial, social, and environmental justice, for present, and future generations. His debut as Ya Tseen (“be alive,” and a reference to his Tlingit name Yeil Ya Tseen) is Indian Yard, his first album for Sub Pop. Rich with emotional range and sharp awareness, Indian Yard explores love, desire, frustration, pain, revolution, and connection through the magnetic expressions of an Indigenous mind. The lusty electro-soul cascade of “Close the Distance,” the lithe funk frolic of “Get Yourself Together,” the insistent weight of “Back in That Time,” sung in Yupik: These 11 tracks put Galanin, Ya Tseen, and Indigenous art at large in a current musical conversation with the likes of Moses Sumney and TV on the Radio, FKA Twigs, and James Blake. Indian Yard is a profound record of liberation and an implicit act of protest, making its case by facing the intersection of past, present, and future realities. In a nod to Sun Ra, “Gently To The Sun” mentions “meds for a nightmare”—an apt description for a record that offers a much-needed antidote for what now ails us personally and universally.Image: Ya Tseen; Photo: Merritt Johnson, Art: Christian Petersen and Nicholas Galanin; Courtesy of the artists. LOW END performances and Bemis Center's Sound Art + Experimental Music Program are made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. LOW END performances are also supported, in part, by Trudy and Larry Lundquist. Additional support provided by New Music USA’s New Music Organizational Development Fund.

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