Some of All Parts closing event, a solo exhibition by Jackson Hunt
The College of Creative Studies Art Gallery and the American Indian and Indigenous Student Association (AIISA) at UC Santa Barbara would like to invite you to the closing event for Jackson Hunt’s exhibition Some of All Parts on February 1, 2025 at 2:00PM.
Performance at 2:00PM
Artist Conversation at 3:00PM
Osten Cetto : Four Snakes is a multimedia performance from Mvskoke sisters Olivia and Celeste Camfield, alongside collaborators, filmmaker Woodrow Hunt and musician Brett Marcom. Through movement as an offering, live music, film, and tattoo’s relationship to body and shape, the performers explore the relations and abstractions between stories of the Alien, Mvskoke stories from beyond the stars, and themselves as family navigating space.
The restaging of this piece within Jackson Hunt’s exhibition, Some of All Parts, collapses the boundaries between the artists’ shared imagery, histories, and distinct practices. Weaving together visual frames to create new layered stories that move and transform within the gallery space.
Celeste Camfield is an artist living on the settled land of the Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ (Comanche), Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa (Lipan Apache), Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa, and Jumanos peoples, currently known as Austin, TX. She grew up dancing in the Texas Hill Country and studied at Marymount Manhattan College, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s P.A.R.T.S summer school in Brussels, and ImPulsTanz in Vienna. Since moving to Austin in 2019, Celeste has worked as a freelance artist for ARCOS, BLiPSWiTCH, and several independent choreographers. She has been creating experimental dance films since 2019, with screenings in Austin, Camden, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, and Portland. In 2022, Celeste co-founded Preheat Fest, a film festival igniting the screendance scene in Austin.
Brett Marcom is a musician and audio engineer based in Austin, Texas. He has recorded and played in various bands in and around the Austin area for the last 10 years. The inspiration for his work comes from electronic music and indie rock, focusing on creating surreal and atmospheric sounds with guitar and digital effects.
Woodrow Hunt is a Klamath, Modoc, and Cherokee artist who was born and raised in Portland, OR. Woodrow's film practice is focused on documentary and experimental forms. His experimental work explores the functions and relationship between digital video and memory and the ways digital video can communicate issues related to the Native community. Woodrow’s films have screened at the Portland Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, and other festivals internationally. His work has been featured in Artforum, Boston Art Review, and Hyperallergic. Woodrow is a featured artist of COUSIN Collective and was a 2022 Sundance Institute Non-Fiction Intensive Fellow.
Olivia Camfield is a multimedia movement artist of the Muscogee Nation, born and raised in Texas Hill Country. Their work finds connection to dance as body horror, tattooing as protection spells, and farming as Queer Indigenous Futurism. They have performed and choreographed dance for much of their career, and their film work includes themes of the Alien as kin, time traveling relatives, and Mvskoke lifeways in experimental forms. They are a tattoo artist whose hand poke practice is based in Southeastern and Mississippian Indigenous tattoo traditions, creating designs for Southeastern people that imagine the possibilities of those tattoos in the future and the new shapes they may take. Olivia's films have screened internationally at Camden International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, and have appeared in print and online publications such as Artforum and Variety. Olivia is a 2018-19 Alembic Artist In Residence, a CYCLE I featured artist of COUSIN Collective, a 2022 Sundance Institute Indigenous Non-Fiction Intensive participant, and a 2022 recipient of Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s LIFT–Early Career Support for Native Artists award.