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In The Court of the Conqueror

George Emllilo Sanchez

Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 7:30PM

The Club @ La MaMa

74 East 4th Street

(between Bowery & Second Avenue)

New York, NY 10003

F triain to Second Avenue; 6 train to Bleecker Street; N/R train to 8th Street.

In the Court of the Conqueror revolves around the over 200 year-old history of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have profoundly diminished the tribal sovereignty of Native Nations. The piece also delves into Sanchez's journey around his own indigenous identity while being raised in an Ecuadorian immigrant household and encountering their embedded bias and prejudice. As a part of Sanchez's artistic research for this piece he enrolled in, and obtained, a Masters in Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples Law out of the University of Oklahoma during the Covid lockdown. The visual narrative displayed across three screens was created by the visual artist Patty Ortiz. Together they traveled across hundreds of miles to photograph and research the overarching historical context of the piece's content. The performance premiered at Abrons Arts Center in March 2022, and it has toured to six states since its premiere. It will be presented at the Moss Art Center at Virginia Tech in April 2025.

Ortiz y Sanchez commenced in 2021 with the project In the Court of the Conqueror. Their collaboration brings together Sanchez’s background in performance art with Ortiz’s visual art. The text and imagery can take many forms from poetic to surrealistic to monologue. Ortiz y Sanchez are devoted to practices and enactments where text and art frame critical questions about historical narratives and social paradigms. They are dedicated to expanding the meaning and scope of indigeneity in the Americas.

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