Postcommodity, a Southwest Native American Artist collective, was founded in 2007 by Kade Twist and Steve Yazzie Their name refers to the "commodity era" of Native American art trading in the late 1800s and 1900s, with the "post" being in reference to their modern take on traditional Native art forms.
Their current members include Kade Twist and Cristobal Martinez. Former members are Raven Chacon (2009-2018), Steve Yazzie (2007-2010) and Nathan Young. (2007-2015)
Art style
Postcommodity makes use of modern technology (sound, video, etc.) in a way that goes against what would be considered as Native American "Commodity Art". Much of this work has been considered as Asmr. Recently, they have been incorporating their work into architecture, such as adding speakers to pre-existing buildings, or creating their own structures.
Another recurring theme in their art is the use of Bird scarer balloons, which contain elements of Native American colors and iconography. Their context for using these balloons is to "function as an intervention repelling the manifestations of the Western worldview and imagination."
In addition to visual art and ASMR, Postcommodity has released music. Much of this music is compiled from other artists, and has been released in the form of LP records.
Artworks
2008
Repellent Eye Over Phoenix
2009
Worldview Manipulation Therapy
Do You Remember When? Dead River
2010
My Blood is in the Water
If History Moves At the Speed of its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow is Changing It's My Second Home, But I Have a Very Spiritual Connection With This Place
2011
Gallup Motel Butchering
The Night is Filled With the Harmonics of Suburban Dreams
Radiophonic Territory (Nocturne) A More Just, Verdant and Harmonious Resolution Mother, Teacher, Destroyer Repellent Eye (Winnipeg)
2012
With Salvage and Knife Tongue
2013
Game Remains (Ongoing)
2014
People of Good Will (2014-2016)
2015
Repellent Fence / Valla Repelente (US/Mexico Borderlands) Pollination
2016
A Very Long Line
2017
In Memorium
Blind / Curtain
The Ears Between Worlds are Always Speaking
Coyotaje
2018
From Smoke and Tangled Waters We Carried Fire Home
2019
The Point of Final Collapse
With Each Incentive
It Exists in Many Forms
2020
Some Reach While Others Clap
Let Us Pray for the Water Between Us
Music
2007
Postcommodity + Magor
2011
The Contour 2011 Sound + Vision LP: Piles of Cougar Pelts (recorded 2001–2011) Your New Age Dream Contains More Blood Than You Imagine
2015
We Lost Half the Forest and the Rest Will Burn This Summer
Books
2010
Postcommodity + Magor, Postcommodity Publications (PCP)
Exhibitions
2007
4+4+4 Days in Motion Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Intersections, Institute Slavonice, Center For the Future, Slavonice, Czech Republic
2009
Martha and Mary Street Fair, Arizona State University Art Museum Happening
Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures, Arizona State University Art Museum
Worldview Manipulation Therapy, Ice House, Phoenix, AZ
2010
Muorrajurdagat, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo Norway
It Wasn't the Dream of Golden Cities, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2011
Here, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada. Contour 2011, 5th Bienniel of Sound and Image, Mechelen, Belgium. Half Life: Patterns of Change, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM Close Encounters, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada The Night is Filled With the Harmonics of Suburban Dreams, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2012
18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Time Lapse / March 2012, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Adelaide International 2012: Restless, Adelaide, Australia
2013
It's My Second Home, But I Have a Very Spiritual Connection With This Place, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA