Grace Bonneyさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Grace BonneyInstagram)「@moanaloveniu: Day 2: In creating the Red Carpet with Kyle Goen @kyledidthis (my homie for life! He is going to hate that I am mentioning this: he is now a Grammy nominated artist 2021 for his cover design of Lil Wayne's album, aww yeahhhh!) I learned how I can combine painting, design, performance, music, activism and activation--and have all exist in the same time and space. I love these words of brilliant curator La Tanya Autry @artstuffmatters who exhibited the Red Carpet in her show, Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom at moCA (Cleveland, Ohio) last year: “We stand in support of the return of their lands. This is where we must begin. Decolonize this place.” These three last lines of Red Carpet (2016), a 30-foot painted floorcloth, issue a strong call for action. Artists Vaimoana Niumeitolu @moanaloveniu and Kyle Goen @kyledidthis , both members of the activist organizations Decolonial Cultural Front and Decolonize This Place (DTP) @decolonizethisplace have installed iterations of their bold red and white floorcloth both inside and outside. The work creates a pathway to disrupt the status quo of North American settler colonialism when exhibited on the steps of the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building in Washington D.C., at the NY Stands with Standing Rock protest at Washington Square Park, at DTP’s “Nine Weeks of Art and Action” interventions in the halls of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and other sites. The painted text on Red Carpet references the Lenni Lenape people of the present-day New York area where the artists reside, and all Indigenous people. Now installed on the floor of moCa, it connects to the past and present Indigeneous communities of this area including but not limited to, the Erie and members of the Haudenosaunee Confederation. When walked on, the carpet heightens our awareness of self in space and place. In turn, the impressions left from our foot traffic underscore the floorcloth’s message that we are all on Indigenous lands. United with Red Carpet’s previous activations, here at Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom is where we must begin." #decolonizethisplace #museumsarenotneutral @blackliberationcenter」1月27日 3時32分