WARREN REALRIDER & MARSHALL TRAMMELL: POSTCOLONIAL EBONICS
NATIVE LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
(POSTCOLONIAL ENLA)
Monday, December 16, 2024 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Doors Open at 6:30 PM
Tulsa Spotlight Theater
1381 Riverside Dr, Tulsa, OK 74127
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is pleased to announce a pop-up performance organized by awardee Warren Realrider and percussionist Marshall Trammell as a new duo fighting formation, Postcolonial Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement (Postcolonial ENLA).
At the Tulsa Spotlight Theater on Monday, December 16, starting at 7 pm, Postcolonial ENLA will present two sets: Set 1) Their first-ever improvised duo performance; Set 2)A spontaneous composition performance with audience participation in the recitation of the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) with musical accompaniment.
Ebonics Native Land Acknowledgement (ENLA) is a Music Research Strategies performance vehicle for his “Black Amnesia and Indigenous Justice” series of investigations and the international Insurgent Learning Workshops (ILWs) series addressing cultural work and tactical media strategies for today’s political landscape using historical technologies for the dismantling white supremacy and other systems of oppression.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Image courtesy of artist. Photo by Ellie Alonzo.
Warren Realrider is a Pawnee/Crow multidisciplinary artist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, working on new projects as part of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. While studying painting at the University of Oklahoma he began an exploration of sound, materials, and site as elements of his art practice. Warren created the Tick-Suck noise performance project in 2016 as sound became central to his practice. He has since presented his solo works and performance collaborations in varied locations, from DTLA to S. Windham, VT and beyond. His works such as IIII Kitapâtu and Unassigned Data work within the unclaimed spaces between contemporary n. american plains existence, universe engagement, and untethered sound to create pointed, sonic structures of human/item/location interface. Realrider is a 2024-206 Tulsa Artist Fellowship Award recipient.
Image courtesy of Music Research Strategies. Photo by Agatha Urbianiak (UK).
Marshall Trammell is an experimental archivist, percussionist, conductor, and composer. His aesthetics and activism are centered on social change interventions and generate new local and global ecologies that embrace improvisation as a collective, movement-building tool in creating post-capitalist imaginaries. Trammell’s work also uses political, aesthetic theory, data creation, mapping, and collective music-and-artmaking to step out of the domain of traditional cultural institutions, relocating the act of co-production back into the community. Trammell’s Music Research Strategies is a performing-political education platform for embodied social justice vernacular, organizational strategy, and alternative infrastructure development.
ABOUT TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
With the belief that arts are critical to the advancement of cultural citizenship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship supports artists and arts workers in the heart of Oklahoma’s Green Country. Socially invested artistic practitioners live and work here, intentionally engaging with our city.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
For information about Tulsa Spotlight Theater and accessibility, visit tulsaspotlighttheater.com. Parallel parking is available along Riverside Drive and in the grass lot behind the theater on Houston Street. The ADA parking is the theater driveway on Houston Street. A sidewalk leading from the driveway to the side entrance is marked with a handicap sign.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a cultural initiative of the George Kaiser Family Foundation. Open House programs are made possible, in part, by The Bush Hughes Foundation for Progress. Special thanks to the dedicated staff, visionary awardees, artistic contributors, cultural partners, media platforms, presenters, culinary experts, and champions for supporting this ambitious weekend.