Nube Hawk Cruz
Nube Hawk Cruz is an artist exploring Indigenous mythologies, science fiction, and rituals to delve into the Indigenous subconscious. Their art merges Indigenous technology and aesthetics with speculative fiction, archival data, and queer themes, functioning as a form of time travel. Over the past five years, Cruz has focused on refiguration and Indigenous cosmologies, examining the intersection of Indigenous technologies with contemporary experiences. Using diverse mediums like site-specific sculpture, 3D scanning, digital archive design and mapping, photography, performance art, and digital technologies Cruz investigates and documents their connection to land, ritual, and the body. Their work creates new myths and realities, fostering the transformation and preservation of culture, mythologies, science, sci-fi, time travel and the queer body as a vessel. They were a researcher with the Mobile Indigenous Community Archive Project at UCLA as well as Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and are a community activist with local tribal communities as well as transnational Indigenous cultural revitalization grassroots projects.
2024: Quilt for Palestine Fundraiser
Friday, December 13, 2024 9PM–12AM
At FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA, CA 90065
Suggested donation sliding scale: $1-$25
Reflection of Space invites performers Avery Collins-Byrd, Jose, Eva Speiser, and Nube Cruz to share their work that encapsulates the way space changes the body. At times we do not notice the changes that our bodies morph through; like how our bodies change in weight by a small piece of lent tagging along with us from home. Or the way our body changes under the pressures of society, colonization, and capitalism. This will be an intimate viewing of performances, and we ask folks to be present for the duration of each performance. This show will also be a part of fundraising relief for Palestinians going through an extreme genocide of their bodies and Native lands