Jane Chang Mi
1 University Drive, Camarillo, CA 93012
Thursday, October 18 at 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Ends Oct 28, 2018
ABOUT WISHTOYO Wishtoyo depicts the legend of the Chumash crossing over on a rainbow bridge from the Channel Island, Limuw (Santa Cruz) to the Tzchimoos, the mountains near Mishopshno (Carpinteria). The islanders who made it across the rainbow populated the mainland. The islanders who fell became dolphins, which is why the Chumash and the dolphins remain as brethren. Limuw is where Hutash, the Earth Mother, created the first Chumash people from the seeds of a Magic Plant. As we move to a techno-driven future, where the ocean is filled with plastic and we live by the light of the neon screen, I seek to highlight the importance of indigenous epistemologies that accommodate our relationship to the non-human, including ways of knowing and speaking that acknowledge our kinship to animals, plants, wind, rocks, mountains, and waters. [i] These past two years, I have spent countless hours commuting along the California coast (Malibu to Santa Barbara as well as visiting the northern Channel Islands). Wishtoyo is my attempt to acknowledge what is traditionally Chumash land, and honor our relationship to the non-human. [i] https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/lewis-arista-pechawis-kite ABOUT JANE CHANG MI As an ocean engineer and an artist, Jane Chang Mi reflects on the environment and its post-colonial manifestation. She assesses the narratives associated with the landscape through an interdisciplinary and research-based lens. She aims to evaluate our contemporary relationship to nature. Utilizing multiple mediums, she investigates the various perspectives of a place by examining our past, present, and future. She is currently based out of Los Angeles and Honolulu, where she teaches at Pepperdine University in Malibu and is currently an artist in residence at World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument (Pearl Harbor, Oahu.)