Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Trained as a composer, Chacon (Diné) often starts from musically notated scores to create conceptually rich artworks across creative categories. Since scores are inherently fluid, even when they take fixed form in a video or print, the works based on them retain the possibility for further interpretation, collaboration, and reanimation in new contexts.
- In his print portfolio series For Zitkála-Šá, Chacon recognizes Zitkála-Šá (Yankton-Dakota, 1876--1938), an Indigenous and women's rights advocate and the first Native composer to use Western musical notation. The series of score-portraits celebrates contemporary Native woman musicians in his circle. Each striking graphic is accompanied by performance instructions, inviting all to imagine how they might activate this legacy.
- Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies, 2023
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Raven Chacon, born Fort Defiance, AZ 1977
- Date
- 2020
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Julia D. Strong Endowment
- Copyright
- © 2019-2020, Raven Chacon
- Medium
- lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 11 in. × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
- Type
- Graphic Arts-Print
