Mariquita Micki Davis

Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com Mariquita Micki Davis Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:36:17 +0000 https://marimick.com en Projects https://marimick.com/Projects Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:14:52 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/Projects PROJECTS About https://marimick.com/About Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:14:52 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/About Mariquita “Micki” Davis (b. Gainesville, GA 1982) is a CHamoru artist and educator based in Los Angeles. She recieved her MFA from the University of California San Diego in 2011. Her work explores notions of artistic collaboration in the contexts of personal, familial, and communal memory. She is a participating artist for the MALI’E performance research project, a 13-moon series of creative development workshops that unites a cohort of culturally rooted Matao/CHamoru artists in the homeland and in the diaspora to produce a traveling exhibit between Guåhan, Los Angeles and Seattle.   She is the co-curator of Pasifika Transmissions, a monthly learning series that invites Indigenous artists to visit the archive of the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum of Long Beach and develop a video “transmission” of this exchange. She is currently a programmer for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and mentor for Armed with a Camera Fellowship program at Visual Communications. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Institute of American Indian Arts, Honolulu Biennial, Vancouver Art Gallery, and UNSW Galleries, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, as well as Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) and Guam International Film Festival. FULL CV PDF Contact https://marimick.com/Contact Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:14:52 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/Contact mmickidavis@gmail.com EMAIL       INSTAGRAM Main https://marimick.com/Main Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:14:52 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/Main ︎ ︎ FEATURED WORK: MDLH https://marimick.com/FEATURED-WORK-MDLH Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:14:52 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/FEATURED-WORK-MDLH Featured Work           Magellan Doesn’t Live Here Nearly 500 years after Europeans first arrived in Guam, Mario Borja, a CHamoru craftsman and amateur historian, reconstructs a lost history of his people, that takes us from the British Naval archives to a Pacific crossing, which will bring his crew back to Guam in a hand built outrigger called a Sakman.  FEATURED WORK: COD https://marimick.com/FEATURED-WORK-COD Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:14:53 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/FEATURED-WORK-COD Close of Day Close of Day is a social hour, it is time of day when our ancestors are most active and it is the time when we reflect on our present day, our past and speculate our future. Taped on location in Hågat, Guahån. Udai https://marimick.com/Udai Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:30:49 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/Udai UDAI VIDEO  6:45 MINUTE RT “As a Chamoru woman I wondered how we got from Fo'na (the first maga’håga, or female leader) to Santa Marian Kamalen (Guam's patron saint). What would these two beings do if they met eachother for the first time? Email artist for private link to view.   Artist Statement <img width="2550" height="1430" width_o="2550" height_o="1430" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1486c8a4140a38998b594d8ad38b39654a1bd801fa911848e3979d96a72f26f/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-7.26.13-PM.png" data-mid="137742855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1486c8a4140a38998b594d8ad38b39654a1bd801fa911848e3979d96a72f26f/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-7.26.13-PM.png" /><img width="2546" height="1426" width_o="2546" height_o="1426" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/409efd10d58b424569dfe11b91e8b9e57e82a25daa48ca57ab913e3f783f910f/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-7.24.27-PM.png" data-mid="137742857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/409efd10d58b424569dfe11b91e8b9e57e82a25daa48ca57ab913e3f783f910f/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-7.24.27-PM.png" /><img width="2552" height="1432" width_o="2552" height_o="1432" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc7247f73f91d8019b14e0ceeb8287e5eb45bbce4916f4f58c0648d0e94f7bcd/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-7.26.48-PM.png" data-mid="137742866" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc7247f73f91d8019b14e0ceeb8287e5eb45bbce4916f4f58c0648d0e94f7bcd/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-7.26.48-PM.png" /><img width="2554" height="1432" width_o="2554" height_o="1432" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eaf5a71b311ef3336b7e76aadcd86bb2175d0e566d45eb9db439e4770d3309fa/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-7.46.46-PM.png" data-mid="137742877" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eaf5a71b311ef3336b7e76aadcd86bb2175d0e566d45eb9db439e4770d3309fa/Screen-Shot-2020-06-15-at-7.46.46-PM.png" /> There is still life https://marimick.com/There-is-still-life Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:36:17 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/There-is-still-life THERE IS STILL LIFE PHOTOGRAPHYCOMMUNITY  There is still life is an ancestor portrait made with and for the visitors of a Toe Fo’i: The Return talk story. About Toe Fo’i <img width="1800" height="1448" width_o="1800" height_o="1448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7265926c8997f4ef075b87948d13b1ddab0351506d4640a26cbb0e359f2a57f4/Toe-fo-i-color-final-2-.jpg" data-mid="137817315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7265926c8997f4ef075b87948d13b1ddab0351506d4640a26cbb0e359f2a57f4/Toe-fo-i-color-final-2-.jpg" /> Pasifika Transmissions https://marimick.com/Pasifika-Transmissions Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:14:53 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/Pasifika-Transmissions PASIFIKA TRANSMISSIONS C0-CURATORPRODUCER VIDEO PROGRAM 2020-2021 https://www.pieam.org/pasifika-transmissions Pasifika Transmissions was a hybrid video program offered through the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum in Long Beach (PIEAM). It emerged in response to the closures necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic with the goals of building cross-cultural community and uplifting the voices of Indigenous contemporary artists of the Pacific diaspora and our collective ancestors. Each month, we invited an artist in our Pacific Island community to the museum to create a connection with an ancestral piece and develop a 30 minute video or “transmission.” We then streamed the videos on Facebook and subsequently archived them on PIEAM’s website as well as Youtube. Pasifika Transmissions takes its name from the practice of listening to the spirits of the collection. What some might call an artifact, or an object, can and does hold an ancestor, a spirit, or is imbued with a life energy.  Each artist responded to different calls and translated each spirit in different ways. As a producer and co-curator of this project, I used my skills as a filmmaker and photographer to support our artists and frame their work respectfully, whether it was livestreaming talks, readings, and performances, or producing more complex video assemblages. <img width="4608" height="2592" width_o="4608" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abca044724b5d147a265de069de1710154275eed971077f1fbbfc138c340a468/micki-acho-atupat_Facebook.jpg" data-mid="137755757" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abca044724b5d147a265de069de1710154275eed971077f1fbbfc138c340a468/micki-acho-atupat_Facebook.jpg" /> <img width="3838" height="2158" width_o="3838" height_o="2158" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8eabb5eaa5af97b769ba6c009f01b30baec7247586e77453fc649455586298fd/Screen-Shot-2021-05-21-at-8.03.38-AM-copy.png" data-mid="137755760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8eabb5eaa5af97b769ba6c009f01b30baec7247586e77453fc649455586298fd/Screen-Shot-2021-05-21-at-8.03.38-AM-copy.png" /> For Freedoms https://marimick.com/For-Freedoms Mon, 28 Mar 2022 03:07:28 +0000 Mariquita Micki Davis https://marimick.com/For-Freedoms FOR FREEDOMS 2020-2021 PHOTOGRAPHY  ACTIVISM CULTURE <img width="1800" height="1012" width_o="1800" height_o="1012" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/633ad22ee389139a0c734dfa6aea0678c4ac8daa9c6b92833a964b46f9898cb8/Guam_Tamuning_MariquitaMickiDavis_Hafataimanunaisinatafachechuiitano-ta_-HowCanWeServeOurLand__PartnerUnfinished_Photographer21Pixels_Igtwentyonepixels_WEB_01_001.jpg" data-mid="137756495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/633ad22ee389139a0c734dfa6aea0678c4ac8daa9c6b92833a964b46f9898cb8/Guam_Tamuning_MariquitaMickiDavis_Hafataimanunaisinatafachechuiitano-ta_-HowCanWeServeOurLand__PartnerUnfinished_Photographer21Pixels_Igtwentyonepixels_WEB_01_001.jpg" />Håfa taimanu nai siña ta fa’che’chu’i  i tano’-ta?  How can we serve our land? As part of the 2020 Awakening campaign by For Freedoms. Full Artist Statement Installed in Tamuning, Guam, in partnership with This Is Unfinished Translation by Jeremy Cepeda and Dakota Camacho Photo by 21Pixels @twentyonepixels <img width="3312" height="1784" width_o="3312" height_o="1784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/09ddf49e533839323c78fc114e58e150a5cc30aab54e9fe74895473a7377833c/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.03.42-AM.png" data-mid="137756844" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/09ddf49e533839323c78fc114e58e150a5cc30aab54e9fe74895473a7377833c/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.03.42-AM.png" /> We Are  As part of For Freedoms AAPI Solidarity billboard initiative in partnership with Orange Barrel Media. Photo by Philip Keith @philip_keith Full Artist Statement <img width="2460" height="754" width_o="2460" height_o="754" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1919329ac160ed501d3444d67b2dafd7828949a4d9bf328e8c420a32e42b9724/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.15.11-AM.png" data-mid="137757053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1919329ac160ed501d3444d67b2dafd7828949a4d9bf328e8c420a32e42b9724/Screen-Shot-2022-03-28-at-12.15.11-AM.png" /> <img width="5000" height="2017" width_o="5000" height_o="2017" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3234bbb8f6705d84408bbcd8327e0a812e71f0ba9d3f2f408b35585a7a7fba51/Mariquita_Davis_We_Are_1080_Social-Media-03.jpg" data-mid="137749406" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3234bbb8f6705d84408bbcd8327e0a812e71f0ba9d3f2f408b35585a7a7fba51/Mariquita_Davis_We_Are_1080_Social-Media-03.jpg" />