what are you looking at? | Ep. 5: Meh at Sports

In this episode, we talk with multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and curator Sarah Biscarra Dilley. Sarah works expansively in collage, print, archival materials, handwork, and language; she’s a writer and academic investigating resilience, displacement, geography, and history, currently pursuing a PhD in Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. In our conversation, Sarah discusses maps as myth and legislation as literature to be interrogated, her research into the stories embedded in her yak tityu tityu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash familial lands, and role of intuitive image making in her practice. She also expands on the international relationships and projects she’s been developing between indigenous peoples across the Pacific that echo and continue ancestral legacies of navigation and cultural exchange, particularly through an upcoming exhibition that she is co-curating with Leuli Luna’i Eshraghi, Freja Carmichael, Tarah Hogue, and Lana Lopesi at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. Through that project, opening in September 2018, she is presenting the work of artist Natalie Ball. Follow Sarah's work at sarahbiscarradilley.com and @sarahbiscarradilley on Instagram.