CANCELLED: "Tekcno Tipi"

The Tekcno Tipi event scheduled for Friday, March 9 at Cornerstone Arts Center has been postponed due to performer illness.

On Friday, March 9 at 7pm Bently Spang will present Tekcno Tipi an interactive performance in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center Main Space. Spang’s interactive performance explores the history and contemporary meaning of the Plains tipi, which he describes as the largest culturally resonant object in the Plains culture. Using sound, lights and video projection,… Show more Spang engages in an extended conversation with the tipi – what would it say if it could speak?

• Bently Spang is a multi-disciplinary artist and videomaker who works in site-specific video installation, photography, live performance, and short films. Spang's work deals with issues surrounding his Northern Cheyenne identity. His art is in private and museum exhibits and collections in the U.S. and Europe. Spang was awarded a Paul Allen Foundation Grant in 2004 for a residency in conjunction with the Techno Powwow Project. In 2003 he received a Woodrow Wilson Foundation: Imagining America grant, and an Outstanding Alumni Award from Montana State University-Billings. Spang has also received artist fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.


Indian Corner and Tekcno Tipi are made possible by support from the President’s Circle, the Colorado College Cultural Attractions Fund, and the NASU (Native American Student Union) at Colorado College.

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