Kinstallations
Soul of Nations Foundation

Kinstallations is a performative exhibition of Indigenous and African American collaborative movement made to evoke the sensations of brown and red interconnectedness from the past, present and future. This exhibition and performance between Regan de Loggans, Justin Sterling, and Dayna Danger was an expansion of a transcontinental constellation series, in which both artists explored identity, abolition, and the Indigenous diaspora through community crisis.

Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two spirit, and trans people (MMIWG2ST) is an awareness campaign informing the general public that Indigenous people go missing and are murdered at a higher rate than any other demographic. However, statistics collected on this violence, often gathered by the police, fail to include Black people, non-enrolled Indigenous folks, Central and South American Indigenous people, or transgender Indigenous people. This incomplete call for action is based on Indian Country’s internalized colorism, anti-Blackness, and adherence to the Police state, as the determining factor of Indigeneity and urgency.

Kinstallations included a performance installation of a red web encapsulated in police barricades of varying materials. Referencing MMIWG2ST, the police state, and continued intercultural disconnects, Kinstallations aimed to contribute to the growing discourse of the Indigenous diaspora and raise awareness on perceived shortsightedness within Indian Country. Additional works by de Loggans and Sterling within the exhibition space were in reference to the general plight connected to Blackness and Indigeneity, while honoring themes of resistance, abolition, and kinship.

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About the Artists

Justin Sterling is an African American artist based in New York City. His art utilizes history and politics to subvert, critique, and transform ideas around the human condition in cities, thus exploring how everyday objects shape social behavior. Sterling graduated with an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2017. Sterling has shown work at the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC), MoMA PS1, San Diego Museum of Art, and Someday Gallery.

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Rregan de Loggans (they/them) is an Indigiqueer artist, curator, and educator based in Lenapehoking (so-called New York City). de Loggans has a multifaceted practice and identity that embraces the Indigenous diaspora, radical politics of refusal, queer kink, and Indigenous anarchism. Their artistry is informed by their work as a history educator, asserting Indigenous and queer representation as a means of reclamation and resistance. De Loggans completed their MA at the Fashion Institute of Technology and BA at Hunter College. They left academia for the frontline, defending Indigenous Sovereignty and raising awareness of ongoing genocide against Indigenous and Black women, girls, two-spirit, and trans communities.

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