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KITE and Natty Gray

  • Compound Yellow 244 Lake Street Oak Park, IL, 60302 United States (map)

KITE aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University, Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, and a 2019 Trudeau Scholar. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance practice. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fiber sculptures, immersive video & sound installations. Currently, she is a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow, and a 2020 Women at Sundance x Adobe Fellow.

Natty Gray is a sound artist, event promoter, and live concert archivist with the Tulsa, Oklahoma art, music, and cassette collective, Cult Love. Having spent over half his life working within the world of recorded and live sound, Natty Gray has become an expert of his sonic craft, ranging from the most conventional and acoustic styles to the most extreme and experimental. Natty Gray specializes in live performance and audio, digital recording and editing, and analog & digital sonic archiving and conversion.