Ekvnv (Land), The Sacred Mother From Which We Came

Tube Factory, Indiana, IN
July 12 – Oct. 20, 2024

With this exhibit, Harkins looks at land in two different ways: a path toward healing due to the desecration of burial mounds in New Harmony, Indiana, and how the Land Back movement addresses climate change. Harkins, a multi-disciplinary artist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Tube Factory curator Shauta Marsh, researched and worked on this exhibit for five years as part of Big Car Collaborative’s decade-long research project, Social Alchemy, which explores utopia and dystopia with an emphasis on the southern Indiana town of New Harmony that was twice the site of utopian experiments.

This exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Efroymson Family Fund, Ruth Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and a printing partnership with Aurora PhotoCenter.

NDN Monument to Climate Change, Drywall, Joint Compound, Steel, 72 × 64 × 142 in.
NDN Monuments for Desecrated Graves, wood, nails, asphalt shingles, 31 × 39 × 74 in. each
NDN Monuments for Desecrated Graves, wood, nails, asphalt shingles, 31 × 39 × 74 in. each
NDN Monuments for Desecrated Graves, wood, nails, asphalt shingles, 31 × 39 × 74 in. each
NDN Monuments for Desecrated Graves, wood, nails, asphalt shingles, 31 × 39 × 74 in. each
This Dress Came From a Trunk, calico, satin, dimensions unavailable 54 x 30 x 30 in

“Hesaketv Meset Likes (The One Who Gives Us Breath Dwells)” is a video work that draws on traditional Muscogee (Creek) language and music. The video is shot in New Harmony, Indiana, the location of two failed utopian societies. The Indigenous inhabitants to have been in the location are unknown and there is speculation that it was several different tribes. The video hopes to shed light on the Indigenous mounds and their presence, as well as their erased history in New Harmony.

Hesaketv Meset Likes: Cabin
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Maze
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Forest
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Mounds 1
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Mounds 2
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Mounds 3
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Mounds 4
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: New Harmonist Cemetery
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: New Harmonist Cemetery 2
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: New Harmonist Cemetery 3
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Wabash
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Wabash 2
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Wabash 3
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Wabash 4
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Wabash 5
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Maze 2
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Disappear
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Disappear 2
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Disappear 3
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Psychological Attack
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Psychological Attack 2
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Psychological Attack 3
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Psychological Attack 4
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Hesaketv Meset Likes: Portal
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