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April 5 - July 20
Elisa Harkins
TEACH ME A SONG
April 5 - July 20
Elisa Harkins
TEACH ME A SONG
Elisa Harkins’s ongoing project, Teach Me a Song, builds on the artist’s interests in translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. The multifaceted work is structured on a series of exchanges, wherein she invites collaborators to teach her a song. With the recordings of these songs—which may be ceremonial, religious, rock & roll, electronic, etc.—Harkins’s practice of nation to nation sharing and trading music is presented as a means of decolonizing traditions of Indigenous musicology. This exhibition is the first time the entirety of this project has been exhibited.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL and The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.
Elisa Harkins
TEACH ME A SONG
April 5 - July 20
Patron Preview Reception
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery
Friday, April 5, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Open to Postmodernist level members and above
Opening Reception
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery
Friday, April 5, 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Free for CofC community + members, $5 donation otherwise
Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist and composer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Harkins uses the Cherokee and Mvskoke languages, electronic music, sculpture, and the body as her tools. Harkins received a BA from Columbia College, Chicago and an MFA from CALARTS. She has since continued her education at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited her work at Crystal Bridges, documenta 14, The Hammer Museum, The Heard Museum, and Vancouver Art Gallery. She created an online Indigenous concert series called 6 Moons, and published a CD of Creek/Seminole Hymns. She is also the DJ of Mvhayv Radio, an Indigenous radio show on 91.1FM in Tulsa, OK and 99.1FM in Indianapolis, IN. Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is a dance performance that features music and choreography by Harkins. With support from PICA and Western Front, songs from the performance have been collected into a limited edition double-LP which can be found on Harkins’ Bandcamp. Harkins resides on the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
