Join us for a discussion about A Common Babble on display in the State of Flux Gallery and more.

This event will take place online via Zoom and is free to attend.

MEET ARTIST NAAKITA F.K.

naakita f.k. is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tio’Tia:Ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their work is grounded in principles of oral tradition, Indigenous feminisms, anticolonial and colonial scientific knowledge practices, and world building. Through place-based and site-specific relations, they consider extractivism, including both resource extraction and extractive ideologies that show up in the wake of violence to land.

Working largely in audio and video installation, the visuals featured in f.k.’s work often include performance gestures such as hands making contact with places, touching, assembling, burying and building. They explore portraiture of interior and exterior spaces through a still and contemplative lens and develop sonic environments that integrate eco-acoustics such as birds, breath, waves, and conversation. Their current research uses hauntology to explore the impacts of the colonial project on built and natural environments, while imagining possible futures that can be contained in a haunted place. This practice is rooted in creating modes of listening to landscapes and the human and other-than-human-beings that inhabit them. They consider landscapes in the abstract. Sometimes referencing inner or outer worlds, micro or macro worlds, nonlinear experiences, of time and the ways that fragments of the past are felt in present and future moments.