Artists Space

Maintaining Good Relations

Audio Livestream
December 16, 2017, 12pm

Native Art Department International (Maria Hupfield, Jason Lujan) and Christopher Green

Maintaining Good Relations is a daylong live audio broadcast that will seek to emancipate listeners from their desire for consumable identities. On location at Artists Space, Native Art Department International will invite guests for live interviews and conversations, and review and critique art exhibitions, discuss news and current events, and play music. The book No Reservation: New York Contemporary Native American Art Movement will be available for sale.

Maintaining Good Relations is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Unholding.

A few empty seats on an NYC subway - the 6 train, with the originating station titled "Maintaining Good Relations"
[A few empty seats on an NYC subway - the 6 train, with the originating station titled "Maintaining Good Relations"]

Organized by six hourly, broadly themed segments, the program will prioritize intersectionality and the value of exchange. Topics will include art criticism, spiritual and physical well being, community and gentrification, gender, environment and land, politics, and activism. In person guests will include local artists, curators, writers, and activists from an international background.

A music playlist, selected by Native Art Department International, will be played intermittently over the course of the program.

Native Art Department International is a collaborative long-term project created and administered by Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan. It focuses on communications platforms and art world systems of support while at the same time functioning as an emancipation from identity-based artwork. It seeks to circumvent easy categorization by comprising a diverse range of activities, such as curated exhibitions, video screenings, panel talks, collective art making, and an online presence, each which contain an undercurrent of positive progress through cooperation and non-competition.

Based in Brooklyn New York, Maria Hupfield is an interdisciplinary artist from Canada, and a member of the Anishinaabek Nation at Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario. Her recent traveling solo exhibition The One Who Keeps on Giving opened the thirtieth anniversary season of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto in partnership with Galerie de l’UQAM, Montréal; Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax; and Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris. She is a current BRIC Workspace Resident and working onsite for Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field, Museum of Arts and Design, New York.

Jason Lujan is originally from Marfa, Texas. His multidisciplinary work sidesteps labels of Native American identity to focus on transnational experiences and aesthetics. Lujan has recently exhibited at Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ; National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY; Curitiba Biennial, Brazil; and I Bienal Continental de Artes Indígenas Contemporáneas at the Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares, Mexico City, Mexico. He curates and co-organizes exhibitions, and is a board chair at the New York City arts nonprofit ABC No Rio.

Christopher Green is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written for Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic, and his articles and essays have appeared in ARTMargins, Winterthur Portfolio, and exhibition catalogues by the New Museum and the Fondation Fernet Branca. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Native American art and the pressures of the digital mode on culture and art making.

Noon
Starting From Zero: Artists Space, Jonathan Gonzalez & EmmaGrace Skove-Epes (Movement Research)
1 p.m.
Downtown Stories: Steven Englander (ABC No Rio), Nancy Azara (artist), Xenobia Bailey (artist)
2 p.m.
Lines of Research: Esther Neff (Panoply Performance Lab), Vikki Law (Writer)
3 p.m.
Emergency Meeting: Jackson Polys (artist)
4 p.m.
Positive Outcomes: Arthur Polendo (Occupy Museums / Debt Fair), Ben Davis (artnet), Maya Suess (Flux Factory)
5 p.m.
Dream Logic: Melissa Staiger (artist), Damali Abrams (artist), Talia Kwartler (MoMA)

Native Art Department International (Maria Hupfield, Jason Lujan) and Christopher Green, with Arthur Polendo (Occupy Museums / Debt Fair), Ben Davis (artnet), and Maya Suess (Flux Factory): Maintaining Good Relations. Audio documentation, December 16, 2017, Artists Space. [Audio livestream of Maintaining Good Relations: Positive Outcomes.]
Native Art Department International (Maria Hupfield, Jason Lujan) and Christopher Green, with Artists Space, and Jonathan Gonzalez & EmmaGrace Skove-Epes (Movement Research): Maintaining Good Relations. Audio documentation, December 16, 2017, Artists Space. [Audio livestream of Maintaining Good Relations: Starting from Zero.]
Native Art Department International (Maria Hupfield, Jason Lujan) and Christopher Green, with Artists Space, and Jonathan Gonzalez & EmmaGrace Skove-Epes (Movement Research): Maintaining Good Relations. Audio documentation, December 16, 2017, Artists Space. [Audio livestream of Maintaining Good Relations: Lines of Research.]
Native Art Department International (Maria Hupfield, Jason Lujan) and Christopher Green, with Artists Space, and Jonathan Gonzalez & EmmaGrace Skove-Epes (Movement Research): Maintaining Good Relations. Audio documentation, December 16, 2017, Artists Space. [Audio livestream of Maintaining Good Relations: Dream Logic]
Native Art Department International (Maria Hupfield, Jason Lujan) and Christopher Green, with Artists Space, and Jonathan Gonzalez & EmmaGrace Skove-Epes (Movement Research): Maintaining Good Relations. Audio documentation, December 16, 2017, Artists Space. [Audio livestream of Maintaining Good Relations: Downtown Stories]