AN EVENING WITH MARK MOTHERSBAUGH Denver Film Fest 2022 presents an Evening with Mark Mothersbaugh, featuring clips from five decades of work in music and film — from his earliest days as songwriter and frontman of the band DEVO to his scoring with such illustrious filmmakers as Taika Waititi, Wes Anderson, and Philip Lord and Christopher Miller. Branching further into the realms of music video, TV and gaming, Mothersbaugh has collaborated with Neil Young, Brian Eno, Matt Groening, Paul Reubens, Tony Hawk and many more. In true renaissance fashion he has also created a large body of mixed-media art that was presented in his retrospective MYOPIA at MCA Denver in 2014-2015. Onstage for this one-on-one interview with Jonathan Palmer of BMG Creative Synch, the talk will be complemented by clips and snippets from Mothersbaugh’s past portfolios as well as a sneak peek of upcoming work.” FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11 AT 7 P.M. FREYER-NEWMAN CENTER DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS | 1085 YORK STREET TICKETS AVAILABLE STARTING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 MORE INFO & TICKETS: DENVERFILM.ORG Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and self-described “disruptor” who lives and works in southern Colorado. A major solo exhibition at the Ent Center for the Art’s Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery site in Colorado Springs will feature new works in multiple series addressing Native identity and critiquing American society, politics, popular culture and history. Deal’s art practice incorporates lifelong interests in punk music, street art and graphic styles, comic books and speculative superhero fiction. Deal presents a new paradigm that places the perception, narratives and voices of Indigenous people at the center of modern and historic storytelling, with romantic and damaging stereotypes of culture placed upon them upended and rejected by all. In Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours), Deal asserts that Native peoples and their cultures are still here and that we are all standing on the homelands of past and future Indigenous generations. “In 2018 a man asked me, ‘What is the most important thing to Indigenous people? The land? Protecting traditions? Your language? Or your people?’ I told him, ‘Those are all the same things.’ So much of the Western understanding of Indigenous people on the North American continent is predicated by the perception of existence and not the reality of existence. Whether the mystical Indian, the vanishing race, or the antagonist to Western progression, these ascribed identities situate Indigenous people as perpetual relics, rarely given quarter in the present, and certainly not in the future. Our likeness, personality and even culture has been created, romanticized and reproduced through film, photography, literature, consumables and visual art. The premise of one artwork in the exhibition titled, White People Shouldn’t Paint Indians, is based upon the idea that our own identity has been informed by this Western gaze, and the marginalized nature of Indigenous people has prevented us from telling our own stories. Our image, wrested from our control and wielded on our behalf, has ensured that our image and our identity are manufactured in a way that negates truth and distorts truthful understandings of who we are as both historical and modern peoples. Contemporary art is one sure way to challenge these ideas, even reusing the damaging images to reimagine, challenge and reflect on hundreds of years of misinformation and misappropriation. In a new paradigm, we must assert our identity in the face of settler colonialism and generations of romantic nationalism. As we do so, new narratives manifest themselves, challenging established spaces and hegemonies that have traditionally suppressed voices of Black, Brown and Indigenous people. Such an undertaking demands that we reimagine the sound of authentic Indigenous voices, uproot the romantic notions of history, and boldly state that we are not only here, but that you are on the homelands of our people and the generations of Indigenous people in the future.” ESOO TUBEWADE NUMMETU (THIS LAND IS OURS) ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 11, 2022 MARIE WALSH SHARPE GALLERY, ENT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | COLORADO SPRINGS LEARN MORE: GOCADIGITAL.ORG/EXHIBITIONS/GREGG-DEAL SPECIAL EVENT: VISITING ARTISTS & CRITICS TALK WITH GREGG DEAL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 AT 6 P.M. | CHAPMAN RECITAL HALL, ENT CENTER FOR THE ARTS FREE TO THE PUBLIC | LEARN MORE INSTAGRAM: @GOCACOLOSPGS SEE MORE OF DEAL’S WORK, CURRENT EXHIBITS & UPCOMING EVENTS: GREGGDEAL.COM | INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: @GREGGDEAL 25 WES MAGYAR PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST PHOTO BY ROSS HARRIS
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