Territorial Practices: A Conversation About Art, Sound, Land, and Fire

Territorial Practices is part of a larger, two-part event titled Nawa / 🫱🏼‍🫲🏾/ Aha; or, The Handshake, which will also include Confluencing: A Sonic Burnout at The Church Arthouse from 7–10 PM. Featuring sound performances by Kole Galbraith, Doom Flower (solo), Complex Crown, Warren Realrider & Sholeh Asgary, and Juan William Chávez, this concert will be an immersive, sensory counterpart to the afternoon’s discussion.

Admission is free. Visitors may attend one or both parts. RSVP to Territorial Practices at Bemis Center here.

Nawa / 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼/ Aha; or, The Handshake is organized by Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardees Gavin Kroeber and Warren Realrider, on the occasion of Realrider’s residency at Bemis Center. It will bring together a diverse group of visiting artists who are making land-based work and, in various ways, engaging territory: moving back and forth across vast ecoregions, tracing the migration paths of other species, restoring Native fire landscapes, and deranging settler-colonial spatial regimes. Participants include sound artists, prescribed and cultural fire practitioners, former Nebraska residents, and Pawnee and Otoe-Missouria descendants visiting their ancestral homelands. In addition to the public talk and concert, it will also feature several days of private exchanges, site visits, and artistic fieldwork at sites across Southeast Nebraska, bringing visiting and local artists together to build relationships with one another and with the land. It is part of a series of related gatherings Kroeber is organizing this year, with others planned in California, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

Event Information

Nawa / 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼/ Aha; or, The Handshake
Saturday, August 1
Omaha, NE

Part 1
Territorial Practices: A Conversation About Art, Sound, Land, and Fire
with Max Brotman, Juan William Chávez, Lydia Cheshewalla, Alex DeRoin, Kole Galbraith, Gavin Kroeber, Jess Price, and Warren Realrider

2–4 PM at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S 12th St, Omaha, NE

Part 2
Confluencing: A Sonic Burnout
with performances by Kole Galbraith, Doom Flower (solo), Complex Crown, Warren Realrider & Sholeh Asgary, and Juan William Chávez

7–10 PM at The Church Arthouse
3101 S 20th St, Omaha, NE