COUSIN Symposium

Squeaky Wheel is honored to host the inaugural COUSIN Symposium Friday July 17 – Sunday July 19. COUSIN is a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film. COUSIN creates and supports work that is personal, proudly provocative and driven by strong, artistic voices. We celebrate this work and get it made, seen and shared. Learn more on their website: https://www.cousincollective.org/

You are invited to attend any or all free public screenings and performances featuring Cousin artists. Screenings will take place at Journey’s End Refugee Services (Suite 530) and performances will take place at Squeaky Wheel (Suite 310). Please note that Tri-Main doors will lock for entrance at 9:30p on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday Squeaky Wheel staff will be on hand to open the building door for attendees from 6:30-7:30pm.

Friday July 17

7:00 PM: Short Film Program #1
at Journey’s End Refugee Services (Suite 530)

Join us for a selection of films by Cousin artists including: Miguel Hilari, Nova Paul, Lindsay McIntyre, Duwawisioma (Victor Masayesva, Jr.), Woodrow Hunt, Olivia Camfield, and al-yené vinokurova.

Post-screening conversation with the artists to follow.

Runtime: 87 mins

9:00 PM: A performance by Kole Galbraith and Warren Realrider
at Squeaky Wheel (Suite 310)

Kole Galbraith (Sinixt/Peoria) is a multi-disciplinary artist who  focuses on sound, audio-visual, and found object installation. Based in Seattle, Washington, Kole Galbraith has been active in the  underground experimental music community for  the past decade performing throughout the United States and Europe. Sonically the studio compositions are informed by  early 20th century French musique-concrète,  metal, jazz and contemporary composition.  Thematically, the compositions are influenced by  interior Salish folklore, and contemporary  indigenous experience. Galbraith mixes using  materials found in nature with electronic  techniques to uncover both hidden sonic  capabilities and subsequent latent histories.  Galbraith has released albums on his own label,  Obscure & Terrible, and other labels such as SIGE, Titania Tapes and Krim Kram. Galbraith has worked with  musicians and artists including Lori Goldston, Greg Kelley,  Jessika Kenney, Steve Moore, Warren Realrider (Pawnee/Crow), Nathan Young (Delaware), Al-Yené Vinokurova (Sakha), Chloe Alexandra  Thompson (Cree), Catherine Guesde, Zach Rowden, Casey Adams, Al Jones, Patrick Wurzwallner, Maja Osojnik,  morher, Sean Waple, Jason Lazer, and Noel Kennon.  Kole Galbraith is a descendant of the Sinixt band of Indians and enrolled member of the  Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma.

Warren Realrider is a Pawnee & Crow multidisciplinary artist presently based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realrider is a recipient of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship for 2024-2026 and is an upcoming Summer 2026 Sound Art + Experimental Music Artist-In-Residence at the Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska. While studying painting at the University of Oklahoma Warren began an exploration of sound, materials, and site as elements of his art practice. Warren created the Tick-Suck noise performance project in 2016 as sound became a central element of his practice. He has since presented his solo works and performance collaborations in varied locations, from Seattle, Washington to South Windham, Vermont and beyond. His works such as Four Kitapâtu and Unassigned Data work within the unclaimed spaces between contemporary North American plains existence, Pawnee universe engagement, and untethered sound cycles to create pointed, sonic structures of human/item/location interface.

Saturday July 18

7:00 PM: Short Film Program #2
at Journey’s End Refugee Services (Suite 530)

Join us for a selection of films by Cousin artists including: Sky Hopinka, Alexandra Lazarowich, New Red Order, Adam Piron, Blackhorse Lowe, Tiare Ribeaux, Fox Maxy, and Rhayne Vermette.
Post-screening conversation with the artists to follow.
Runtime: 80 mins

9:00 PM: K-∪ruyuki ∪-Khronicles: A confuse triptych
at Squeaky Wheel (Suite 310)
(projectors performance by Esteban Prudencio)
Speculative memoir on the chiriguano people, their filtration, wars, and disappearing/ence. A World that Keeps Ending, and A World that Goes On.

Esteban Prudencio (b. 1992, Tarija, Bolivia) is an audiovisual artist, curator, and informal researcher based between Bolivia and Cuba. Addressing the current condition of the Global South—marked by the ever-present colonial project and the eradication of both landscape and oral traditions—his practice seeks to generate an influx of counter-hegemonic images capable of opening cracks in the political, ecological, and affective imagination.

Sunday July 19

Directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning, Albuquerque-based composer Raven Chacon, Tiguex is the filming of Chacon’s large-scale musical composition consisting of twenty overlapping movements performed over the span of a day. The performance took place September 27th, 2025, from dawn to dusk, across Albuquerque and incorporated over 200 musicians from the city.

Runtime: 85 mins