Join KEXP as we celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day. On Sunday, October 12th, Kevin Sur and Sounds of Survivance co-host Tory J broadcasted live from the Burke Museum in Seattle. Then on Monday, October 13th, it was an all-day celebration featuring a special DJ lineup.
Across both days, we shared music from Indigenous artists and communities who have resisted colonization since time immemorial.
Listen to both broadcasts below using KEXP's Two-Week Streaming Archive. [ Stream expires: 10/26 + 10/27 ]
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Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and "disruptor." His work is informed by his Native identity and includes exhaustive critiques of American society, politics, popular culture and history. Through paintings, murals, performance work, filmmaking, spoken word, and more, Deal invites the viewer to confront these issues both in the present and the past tense.
In a 2018 TED Talk, Deal described his work as “honoring Indigenous experiences, challenging stereotypes, and pushing for accurate representations of Indigenous people in art.” It is in these "disruptions" of stereotypes and ahistorical representations which Deal uses the term to describe his work. Gregg Deal has exhibited his work at notable institutions both locally, nationally, and internationally including the Denver Art Museum, RedLine Gallery, and The Smithsonian Institution. The artist currently lives with his wife and five children along the Front Range of Colorado.
