Postcommodity

Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary art collective comprised of Cristóbal Martínez (Mestizo) and Kade L. Twist (Cherokee) that seeks to forge new metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within an increasingly challenging contemporary environment. Their works promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political, and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies,  and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere. 

The collective has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in solo shows at Remai Modern in Saskatoon (2021), the Art Institute of Chicago (2021), LAXART (2020), the San Francisco Art Institute (2019), and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2015), among others. Recent engagements include group exhibitions at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (2020), the 57th Carnegie International (2018), Desert X in the Coachella Valley (2019), Documenta 14 (2017), and the Whitney Biennial (2017). 

Postcommodity is the recipient of numerous grants including the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Shift Grant (2021) and Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship (2017–2018), as well as awards from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Art Matters, Creative Capital, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. The collective’s work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Princeton University Art Museum among others.

Postcommodity acknowledges the important contributions of its previous collaborators: Raven Chacon (2009–2018), Steven Yazzie (2007–2010), Nathan Young (2007–2015), Adam Ingram-Goble (Game Remains), Andrew McCord (If History Moves at the Speed of Its Weapons, Then the Shape of the Arrow is Changing, and Promoting a More Just, Verdant and Harmonious Resolution), Annabel Wong (Dead River) and Existence AD (Dead River).

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Truck Hunting Out Near Agua Caliente Reservation, 2021
installation view, Time Holds All The Answers, Remai Modern
wood, metal fasteners, bolts, suspension cables
photo by Blaine Campbell, courtesy Remai Modern
Let Us Pray For the Water Between Us, 2020
installation view, Time Holds All The Answers, Remai Modern
2200 gallon polyethylene hazmat chemical storage container, brushless linear motor, leather mallet, wood, steel, aircraft cable, algorithmic composition
originally commissioned by Minneapolis Institute of Art
photo by Blaine Campbell, courtesy Remai Modern
South By North is Also North By South, 2021
installation view, Time Holds All The Answers, Remai Modern
250-litre steel haz-mat barrels
dimensions variable
photo by Blaine Campbell, courtesy Remai Modern
Dreams, Blessings and Memories, 2021
installation view, Time Holds All The Answers, Remai Modern
wall text in charcoal powder, sound
dimensions variable
photo by Blaine Campbell, courtesy Remai Modern
Going to Water, 2021
installation view, Time Holds All The Answers, Remai Modern
multi-channel video and sound
dimensions variable
photo by Blaine Campbell, courtesy Remai Modern
Elders First, 2021
installation view, Time Holds All The Answers, Remai Modern
multi-channel video and sound
dimensions variable
photo by Blaine Campbell, courtesy Remai Modern
Some Reach While Others Clap, 2020
installation view, LAXArt
steel I-beam supports, car paint, aluminum, and velvet fabric
dimensions variable
commissioned by LAXArt, photo courtesy LAXArt
With Each Incentive, 2019
installation View, Bluhm Family Terrace, Art Institute of Chicago
concrete, cinder block, and steel rebar
photo courtesy Art Institute of Chicago
From Smoke and Tangled Waters We Carried Fire Home, 2018
installation view, 57th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art
coal, glass, steel
approx. 33 feet 10 inches x 92 feet 4 inches
photo by Bryan Conley, courtesy of the 57th Carnegie International
collection Carnegie Museum of Art
It Exists in Many Forms, 2019
installation view, DesertX, Miles C. Bates House (Wave House), restoration site
7channel generative sound, DeWALT Worksite boom boxes
photo by Lance Gerber