About

Join us for a conversation between Indigenous writer and scholar Lou Cornum and artist and activist Jeremy Dennis. Presented as part of Speculations on the Infrared, curated by Christopher Green and on view at Project Space until March 6, 2021, this conversation continues a series of “correspondents hours” that focus on current events on the frontlines of Indigenous sovereignty movements across North America.

Date/Time

Saturday, March 6, 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST - Via Zoom

About the Speakers

Lou Cornum is a two-spirit diasporic Diné writer, born in Arizona in 1989 and currently based in Brooklyn. Their writing on Indigenous art, politics and cultural critique can be found in The New Inquiry, Art in America, and Pinko: A Magazine of Gay Communism. They are currently completing a PhD dissertation on Black and Indigenous science fiction at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Jeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a contemporary fine art photographer and a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. In his work, he explores indigenous identity, assimilation, and tradition. Dennis was one of 10 recipients of a 2016 Dreamstarter Grant from the national non-profit organization Running Strong for American Indian Youth. He was awarded $10,000 to pursue his project, On This Site, which uses photography and an interactive online map to showcase culturally significant Native American sites on Long Island, a topic of special meaning for Dennis, who was raised on the Shinnecock Nation Reservation. He also created a book and exhibition from this project. Most recently, Dennis received the Creative Bursar Award from Getty Images in 2018 to continue his series Stories.

In 2013, Dennis began working on the series, Stories—Indigenous Oral Stories, Dreams and Myths. Inspired by North American indigenous stories, the artist staged supernatural images that transform these myths and legends to depictions of an actual experience in a photograph.

Residencies: North Mountain Residency, Shanghai, WV (2018), MDOC Storytellers' Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY (2018). Eyes on Main Street Residency & Festival, Wilson, NC (2018), Watermill Center, Watermill, NY (2017) and the Vermont Studio Center hosted by the Harpo Foundation (2016). He has been part of several group and solo exhibitions, including Stories, From Where We Came, The Department of Art Gallery, Stony Brook University (2018); Trees Also Speak, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, NY (2018); Nothing Happened Here, Flecker Gallery at Suffolk County Community College, Selden, NY (2018); On This Site: Indigenous People of Suffolk County, Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead, NY (2017); Pauppukkeewis, Zoller Gallery, State College, PA (2016); and Dreams, Tabler Gallery, Stony Brook, NY (2012).

Dennis holds an MFA from Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, and a BA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, NY. https://www.jeremynative.com/

See Also:
https://www.mashouse.studio/
https://www.instagram.com/mashousestudio/

Image: Jeremy Dennis, Postcard to save the Shinnecock Monuments. (On February 28, the NY Department of Transportation is planning to destroy the Shinnecock Monuments built on land owned by the Shinnecock Indian Nation on Sunrise Highway near Hampton Bays, NY. On February 13th, postcards were sent to Governor Cuomo's office demanding a stop to the harassment.)