Postcommodity: Time Holds All the Answers
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REMAI MODERN 102 Spadina Crescent E, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 0L3
Postcommodity, "Let Us Pray For the Water Between Us," 2020
2,200-gallon polyethylene hazmat chemical storage container, brushless linear motor, leather mallet, wood, steel, aircraft cable, algorithmic composition. Originally commissionedby Minneapolis Institute of Art. Installation view, Time Holds All the Answers, Remai Modern, 2021. Photo: Carey Shaw.
Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective, with current members Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist. Creating works of art through a shared Indigenous lens and voice, Postcommodity examine aspects of 21st-century life to inspire a uniquely Indigenous vision of the future.
Online Publication Launch: Friday, January 14, 3 PM (CST)
Join Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge and Remai Modern for a virtual book launch with readings from the publication Postcommodity: Time Holds All the Answers. Dr. Gerald McMaster hosts presenters Roberto Bedoya, Floyd Favel, and Elise Y. Chagas along with Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective currently comprised of Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist.
This publication launch is free to attend and will be hosted via Zoom.
Time Holds All the Answers is Postcommodity’s largest museum presentation to date, and almost all of the works on view are new. The exhibition takes on subjects including environmental crises, Indigenous sovereignty and land stewardship, the forces of capitalism, and the mythologies of modern art and architecture. In sharing their work in Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis, Postcommodity recognize how Indigenous people, stories and art forms have long travelled between the south and the north, since time immemorial.
Postcommodity uses hacking as a creative strategy, taking existing objects and systems and breaking them apart to modify their original purpose. Through hacking, Postcommodity approaches sites of conflict as places of curiosity, where multiple realities exist in tension. Something can be at once harmful and healing, terrifying and beautiful, inside and beyond. The artists consider the entire museum as a site where their concept of “re-imagined ceremony” takes shape. Ceremony is usually religious or spiritual rituals and gatherings that celebrate particular events. In Postcommodity’s approach, the museum becomes an immersive environment, with careful attention to where and how artworks are encountered and moved through.
Visitors are welcomed into a space of exchange, where meaning can be created together from a place of shared respect and responsibility. This re-imagined ceremonial ground collapsestime, unifying the past, present and future. Dialogues of co-existence emerge, where one worldview is not privileged at the expense of another.