Kite Artist Archives – Toronto Biennial of Art

Kite, aka Suzanne Kite (born in 1990, Sylmar, USA) is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist and composer. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University, Montreal; Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures; a 2019 Trudeau Scholar; a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow; and a 2020 Women at Sundance x Adobe Fellow. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media and performance practice.

Exhibit

Althea Thauberger & Kite at Small Arms

Thauberger + Kite’s installation Call to Arms features audio and video recordings of their rehearsals with Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) York band in advance of a live performance of four musical scores by Kite during the Biennial’s opening weekend in addition to the band’s own repertoire. Boasting the country’s only conch shell sextet, the […]

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Small Arms Inspection Building (2019)

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September 21 – December 1, 2019

Althea Thauberger + Kite, *Battle Cry (Gift to the Shell Ensemble)*, 2019, 2-channel video with 6-channel audio. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Courtesy the artists.

Althea Thauberger + Kite, *Battle Cry (Gift to the Shell Ensemble) (still)*, 2019, 2-channel video with 6-channel audio. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. On view at Small Arms Inspection Building as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019). Courtesy the artists.

Althea Thauberger & Kite, "Battle Cry (Gift the Shell Ensemble)," from "Call to Arms," 2019. Courtesy the artists.

Donors & Supporters

Ann and Harry Malcolmson

Program

Call to Arms

As part of the Biennial’s launch, in collaboration with Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship HMCS York, four musical scores by Kite will be performed along with the band’s own repertoire. Boasting the country’s only conch shell sextet, the Navy band will perform inside the Navy’s drill hall, a “stone ship” a highly resonant space which itself […]

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HMCS York

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September 21

5:30pm – 7:30pm

Althea Thauberger and Kite, *Call to Arms*, performance at the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art. Photo: Sue Holland. Courtesy Toronto Biennial of Art.

Program

Future, Fire, Fiction

Future, Fire, Fiction—storytelling workshop for imagining future technologies through design justice and Indigenous philosophy Design practitioner and community organizer Una Lee and artist and composer Suzanne Kite (Kite), tell stories about the past, present, and future, and invite participants to do the same, asking: Which technologies will we need in the future? Which technologies do […]

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