Event
cHURCH OF MONIKA: MATT PETERSON AND VANESSA TERÁN
12 Mar 2023
Free admission
Address
- 306 17th St
- New York
New York - 11215
- United States
A joint conversation between artists Matt Peterson and Vanessa Terán, who will speak about their collaborative work around indigeneity and American Indian reservations, from their participation in the Standing Rock movement in 2016, to collaborations with the Mohawk Warrior Society at Akwesasne.
About
Vanessa Terán will present on representation within Ecuador’s national indigenous-led strikes in recent years, from her experience as a photojournalist and visual anthropologist, examining how these social movements relate to discourses of ethnicity and class. Matt Peterson will speak about his project The Native and the Refugee, a multi-media documentary profiling the American Indian reservation and Palestinian refugee camp as spaces of exception. In December he released a new book with PM Press, The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival.
Matt Peterson is an organizer at Woodbine, an experimental space in Ridgewood, Queens. Since 2014 he has collaborated with Malek Rasamny on “The Native and the Refugee”, a multi-media documentary project on American Indian reservations and Palestinian refugee camps. He is co-editor of the books In the Name of the People (2018), The Mohawk Warrior Society (2022), and The Reservoir (2022).
Vanessa Terán is a visual storyteller and anthropologist working with photography and video. Her work focuses on identity, belonging and territory. She is currently a Mellon Artist and practitioner Fellow at RITM, Race, Indigeneity and Transmigration research center at Yale. Vanessa is also the director of the photography and video department at GK, a digital media for investigative journalism in Ecuador.
