SKY HOPINKA on What We Pass On /364

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Ayana is joined by Sky Hopinka in a conversation that dives deep into the meaning of art and film and the stories and emotions we share between generations. Sky grounds the conversation in his incredible expertise and thoughtful approach to media. Touching on the very questions of who we are and how we make meaning, the questions in this conversation cut to the core of what it means to be human.

The conversation is a beautiful exploration of art, Indigeneity, intergenerational pain, and the way we make meaning in times like these. Weaving together the ephemeral worlds of emotion and identity with the grounding power of shared values and reciprocity, Sky reminds us that art is meant to provoke, inspire, and make the space needed for feeling to emerge.

Sky Hopinka was born and raised in Northern Washington State and Southern California. He's a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. His video, photo, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal, documentary, and non fiction forms of media. His work has played at various festivals including Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival.

Music by Arushi Jain. The artwork for this episode is Sky Hopinka; Breathings (2020). Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

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0:00.0	Hello for the wild community. I'm Iana Young. Today we are speaking with Sky Hopinka.
0:07.0	I think there's something that comes with intergenerational trauma or even intergenerational
0:12.0	violence where it's just like there's
0:14.8	this sort of idea that you have to suffer as much as your parents did or your grandparents did.
0:20.1	And that also gets tied up into this idea of authenticity.
0:23.0	You know, like if we're not suffering in the same way, then are we real?
0:27.0	I think that's part of that sort of transgenerational reckoning.
0:30.0	Unlearning these sorts of ways of disseminating knowledge and feeling and emotion that haven't worked for us or are passing one of the things that we really don't want to be passing along.
0:40.5	And how can we become more intentional about being specific with that?
0:45.2	What do we want to pass on?
0:46.5	What do we want to survive?
0:48.2	And what can we let go? Before we dive into this episode, I wanted to give an introduction to this
0:59.0	incredible guest and share a bit of the behind-the- scenes work that makes for the wild possible.
1:04.8	In 10 years of for the wild, I have had the opportunity to converse with hundreds of
1:09.3	dedicated, inspirational, and often life altering guests.
1:15.0	As our library has grown, so too has the range of guests we've conversed with.
1:19.0	And across the years, it has been wonderful to see how the interest and knowledge sets of our team has shaped our library and guided for the wild into new territories of imagination, inquiry and thought. What is perhaps even more impressive I think is the way these conversations
1:37.6	intertwined with each other and coalesce. For the Wild is grounded in the
1:42.1	philosophies that emerge across conversations, engaging different
1:46.4	viewpoints and vast ways of looking at the world.
1:50.6	Across topics we aim to create media that is grounded, intentional, and relational.
1:55.4	Today's conversation adds beautifully to this harmony. In it I talk with Sky Hopinka
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