NOME is pleased to announce the first European solo exhibition by Kite, entitled Night as Root (haŋ-). Kite’s practice focuses on the intricate interplay between artificial intelligence and Lakȟóta philosophies of the nature of being. Pointing specifically to concepts of the enfolding past and present, the connection to place, and the complex spiritual personhood of non-human beings, she explores contemporary Lakota ontology through research-creation, computational media, and performance. 

Kite’s exhibition at NOME presents recent stone sculptures and hides that explore the movement of knowledge through dreams into this world, using Lakȟóta visual language. An installation of her 2021 short film Winyan Yamni: Three Dreams proposes a Lakota filmic gaze, and ziŋtkátȟó, wíhiyayela (bluebird, time), a sculpture from 2017, makes time, history, and space wearable. The title references the root word signifying “night,” the foundation of all Lakota words connected to dreaming, symbolizes that night is at the core of all dreams and visions.

Kite (b.1990, Oglala Sioux Tribe) lives and works in Ma’eekanik koomhina (Hudson Valley).

Kite is an award winning Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, composer and academic, known for her sound and video performance with her machine learning hair-braid interface. Her artwork and performance has been included in numerous exhibitions, recently Hammer Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Plug In Contemporary, PS122 and the Vera List Center, Anthology Film Archives, Walter Phillips Gallery, Chronus Art Center, Toronto Biennial, and Experimenta Triennial. Kite was a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow, a 2020 Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab Fellow, a 2020 “100 Women in AI Ethics,” and a 2021 Common Fields Fellow. Kite was a United States Artist Fellow 2023, a 2022-2023 Creative Time Open Call artist for the Black and Indigenous Dreaming Workshops with Alisha B. Wormsley, and a 2023 Creative Capital Awardee. She is Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies, Bard College and a Research Associate and Residency Coordinator for the Abundant Intelligences (Indigenous AI) project.