Conversation with Artist Ryan Dennison
b'Ryan Dennison is a Din\\xe9 transdisciplinary artist from Tohatchi, NM. His work has been featured in both solo and collaboration exhibitions across Din\\xe9 Nation and U.S. Sicksicksick Distro (Albuquerque, NM), \\u201cAll My Relations\\u201d Exhibition (Minneapolis, NM), \\u201cVisions into Infinite Archives\\u201d Exhibition (San Francisco, CA), Deep White Sound (Portland, OR), and \\u201cFuture Now / Futura Ahora\\u201d (New York City, NY).\\n \\nDennison\\u2019s work defuses critical engaged consciousness and liberation technologies through indigenous research, planning, design, education and healing. He comes from a background of experiential, pastoral and traditional ecological knowledge, which constructs a Din\\xe9 epistemological framework and pedagogical orientation of traditional/western knowledge.\\n\\nShapeshifting through various mediums he exercises the transposition of past and present to share a social and political soundscape. to vision our future environment, acknowledging the interconnectedness of land, culture and community. His practice involves both visual art and sound\\u2014engaging in performances that utilize Din\\xe9 traditional tools with self taught media such as contact mics, synthesizers, handmade costumes, and projections.\\n\\nHe currently works and lives in Gallup, NM as an educator with indigenous communities actively maintaining, renewing and revitalizing traditional knowledge linking, food, culture, health and the environment.'