RAVEN CHACÓN BRINGS HIS WORK TOGETHER AT SWISS INSTITUTE
Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak at Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York is the artist first major institutional solo exhibition, organized in partnership with Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum.
A 2023 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and the first Native American artist to receive the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2022, Chacon works through sound, video, scores, performance and sculpture to address Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice. The show brings together groundbreaking works from the last 25 years with a newly commissioned sound and video installation, novel iterations of pioneering works, and a major public art mural on SI’s building. The exhibition spans diverse geographic contexts: Sápmi (the Sámi homeland traversed by the present-day nation states of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia) and Lenapehoking, or New York, in Turtle Island. Both locations share Indigenous histories and presents that colonialism has attempted to eradicate for centuries. Yet they are also sites where resilience, or, in the words of cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor, survivance, continues to thrive.
A Worm’s Eye View from a Bird’s Beak highlights the multidisciplinary depth of Chacon’s prolific practice. Between past, present and future, silence and noise, violence and resilience, Chacon’s work proposes new as well as ancient ways of relating through which alternative politics may be glimpsed.
Chacon’s first monograph, published by Swiss Institute, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum and Sternberg Press, will be launched on the occasion of the exhibition. The book includes newly commissioned contributions by Lou Cornum, Aruna D’Souza, Candice Hopkins, Anthony Huberman, Marja Bål Nango and Smávot Ingir, Patrick Nickleson and Dylan Robinson, Eric-Paul Riege, Ánde Somby, and Sigbjørn Skåden, with an introductory text by editors (with Alison Coplan) Katya García-Antón and Stefanie Hessler.
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