Artists
Their multi-ethnic troupe, Los Humanos, compose and perform models inspired by American practices developed to support emerging technologies, and aboriginal practices that function to maintain heritage. These artworks demonstrate a people’s ability to use forms of old and new technology to help maintain ceremonial life despite forms of oppression influenced by a subversive marketplace culture. This marketplace paradigm results in technologies that are used to form human experiences, mediate ideology, and facilitate methods of control.
This paradoxical aspect of the post-colonial indigenous condition is synthesized in the performance and studio art project titled Radio Healer. The works encompassed by this project signify a crux that falls upon the convergence of cultural resilience and technological evolution. Through his medicine, the cyborg healer demonstrates the ability of these binaries to co-exist, or the argument of these binaries to implode.
As a sustainable cross-cultural network between American Indian and non-Indian peoples, Radio Healer demonstrates intelligible and emotive ritualistic interpretations of this experience. It does this by using a vocabulary of symbols that are communicated through dance, design, and music.
Radio Healer is directed by: Cristóbal Martínez and Randy Kemp
Meredith Martinez: Choreography, Contemporary Dance Performance
Ryan McFadden: American Indian Flutes, Essay, Video Documentary
Aileen Mapes: Contemporary Dance Performance
Janie Ross: Contemporary Dance Performance
Jordan Golding: Audio Engineering, Design, and Circuits
Fabio Fernandes: Technical SupportSam Anderson: American Indian Dance
Monty Walters: American Indian Dance
