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KARANKAWA CARANCAHUA CARANCAGUA KARANKAWAY

by Lucas Gorham, Nuria Montiel and John Pluecker

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KARANKAWA CARANCAHUA CARANCAGUA KARANKAWAY pt. 1 28:06
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KARANKAWA CARANCAHUA CARANCAGUA KARANKAWAY pt. 2 22:21
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KARANKAWA CARANCAHUA CARANCAGUA KARANKAWAY pt. 3 29:30
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KARANKAWA CARANCAHUA CARANCAGUA KARANKAWAY

by Nuria Montiel and John Pluecker

An installation at Project Row Houses during Round 44: Shattering the Concrete: Artists, Activists and Instigators, curated by Raquel De Anda

A collaborative visual and sound poem that meditates on language and memory in the context of colonial structures of power that attempt to erase one of the indigenous cultures that inhabited Southeast Texas: the Karankawa. The project first emerged out of an investigation into the archival documentation of the Karankawa language assembled by colonial settlers, explorers and scholars in Southeast Texas; this investigation found a poetic form in Pluecker's book Ford Over. The dominant historical narrative in Texas contends that the Karankawa people were driven to extinction; however, through research and conversations, it became clear that members of the Texas Carrizo-Comecrudo tribe along with other Native Texans refute these accounts as they reclaim their own Karankawa ancestors, sometimes grounding themselves in the stories and lifeways of their own families. Through this sound and visual poem (with audio work by Lucas Gorham, a sound artist and musician of Karankawa descent), we are asking: can languages be completely lost or might they survive in ways both perceptible and imperceptible? How might they be heard?

"Montiel and Pluecker’s installation is based in an ongoing activism and community engagement, but the exhibition itself makes use of visual language–both literally and figuratively. In delicate floor reliefs made of dirt, the two reproduce words from the Karankawa language. A First Peoples nation native to the Houston area, the speakers of this language and the language itself have been almost entirely erased from Texas history. The installation (which also includes a sound piece), then, is a reclamation, but also a statement of the many intangible points of disconnection that eventually undermine both personal and collective memory-making. As the installation succumbs to the elements and is bumped by visitors, it starts to dissemble and fragment. In fact, its dissolution is part of the piece’s power." - Laura Wellen in an insightful review of the installation and the entire round at Arts + Culture Texas.

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released March 26, 2016

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Hi my name is Lucas Gorham. I am a musician, composer, and sound artist. Much of my work involves the lap steel guitar.

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