The I2E2 Series
I2E2: Whose Story?
The UNA School of the Arts, Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area, and Mitchell-West Center for Social Inclusion present I2E2: Whose Story? on September 1-2, 2022, in Norton Auditorium.
Our Keynote Speaker: Christina Giacona
Christina is the Indigenous and Modern Music Specialist at The University of Oklahoma School of Music and co-founder, producer, conductor, artistic director, and score supervisor for Onyx Lane.
Coming together to discuss equity and accessibility in the ARTS
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I2E2: Whose Story? The Power and Problems of Collaboration
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Thursday, September 1 at 6:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
6:00 p.m. Pre-performance panel/lecture
7:30 p.m. Performance
“Cube of Light” is a 41-minute post-classical visual album created by Christina Giacona and Patrick Conlon. The music is influenced by the sounds of modern classical composition, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, Muse, Animal Collective, the Stranger Things soundtrack, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Inspired by Olafur Eliasson’s “1m3 light” and Leo Villarreal’s “Star Ceiling,” “Cube of Light” is centered around the idea of artistic reflection and the journey of light through space, time, and consciousness.
CUBE OF LIGHT Release Trailer
Friday, September 2 at 9:00 a.m.
This seminar examines the role of cultural appropriation in the creation of Native American stereotypes that are present in Western popular music in post-colonial America. Similar to how minstrel blackface performances developed racial archetypes by “displaying blackness,” singing redface occurs when a non-Native person takes on the racial archetype of a Native American character through song and leads to aspects of cultural confusion, cultural misappropriation, racial antipathy, and idealized sympathy towards Native Americans and their culture.
Friday, September 2 at 10:00 a.m. moderated by Carrie Crawford, MSHNA Director
This panel will explore the complicated nature of sharing and interpreting the stories of Native American people in museums and in classrooms, as well as through music and art. Collaboration across communities is essential to telling stories in a respectful and authentic way. Please join us as our panelists talk about this essential process.
Panelists:
Christina Giacona
Indigenous and Modern Music Specialist
The University of Oklahoma
Brian Murphy, Curator
Florence Indian Mound Museum
and Pope's Tavern Museum
Marie Taylor
Assistant Professor
UNA English Department
Alabama Chapter of the Trail of Tears Assoc.
Friday, September 2 at 11:00 a.m. by Christina Giacona
This keynote address examines how sonic materials that attempt to display Indigeneity have been used to racialize and misappropriate Indigenous narratives. The question at hand is whose story are we telling and what are we actually saying about them? We will examine how groups like A Tribe Called Red (now The Halluci Nation) have remixed these sonic stereotypes to change their message, reappropriate, reframe, and redress their meaning to create empowering anthems that draw attention to contemporary racial and societal issues.