We Left Them Nothing: Interview with Demian Dineyazhi'
In this episode artist Demian Din\xe9Yazhi\xb4 speaks with Broken Boxes about their practice, navigating the contemporary art world and online spaces and they read excerpts from their poetry works including An Infected Sunset and unreleased materials from their forthcoming publication We Left Them Nothing.\n\nDemian Din\xe9Yazhi\xb4 (born 1983) is a Portland-based Din\xe9 transdisciplinary artist, poet, and curator born to the clans Naasht\u2019\xe9zh\xed T\xe1b\u0105\u0105h\xe1 (Zuni Clan Water\u2019s Edge) & T\xf3d\xedch\u2019\xed\xed\u2019nii (Bitter Water). Their practice is a regurgitation of purported Decolonial praxis informed by the over accumulation and exploitative supremacist nature of hetero-cis-gendered communities post colonization. They are a survivor of attempted european genocide, forced assimilation, manipulation, sexual and gender violence, capitalist sabotage, and hypermarginalization in a colonized country that refuses to center their politics and philosophies around the Indigenous Peoples whose Land they occupy and refuse to give back. They live and work in a post-post-apocalyptic world unafraid to fail. \n\nFollow their work:\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/heterogeneoushomosexual/\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/riseindigenous/\n\n\nSong featured: Nice Guy by WEEDRAT