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Laura Ortman, Nanobah Becker, and others

My Soul Remainer

2016

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My Soul Remainer

Laura Ortman, Nanobah Becker, and others

My Soul Remainer

My Soul Remainer

2016

Physical Qualities Single-channel high-definition video (color, sound), Duration: 5 minutes, 44 seconds
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Object Number 2020.17
Apache oral traditions trace the origins of stringed musical instruments to the beginning of the earth, and music has played a central role in cultural traditions ever since. In My Soul Remainer, Ortman plays her violin throughout the southwestern landscape of the United States: in a forest clearing, on a mountainside, and within a rocky stream. Her collaborator Jock Soto (Diné) assumes different reverential postures while Ortman’s original score—which samples a piece by German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)—bleeds into an atmospheric and ethereal composition. By building upon and ultimately departing from the overwhelmingly white and male history of Western classical music composing, Ortman insists upon her own Native autonomy.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2020; the artist
Now Is The Time: Recent Aquisitions to the Contemporary Collection
Preoccupied: Laura Ortman
https://www.rewirefestival.nl/feature/interview-laura-ortmans-masterful-journey-through-violin-artistry [4/6/2025]https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/06/14/laura-ortman-jock-soto/
https://socratessculpturepark.org/ortman-interview/ [summer 2020]

Artist

Laura Ortman

1972–2000

(White Mountain Apache) b. 1973, Whiteriver, Arizona, U.S.A.
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Cinematographer

Nanobah Becker

1974–2000

(Diné) b. 1975, Albuquerque, NM
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Videographer

Blackhorse Lowe

1977–2000

(Diné) b. 1978, Nenahnezad, New Mexico, U.S.A.
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Lighting designer

Autumn Chacon

1986–2000

(Diné / Xicana) b. 1987, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
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Performer

Jock Soto

1964–2000

(Diné / Puerto Rican) b. 1965, Gallup, New Mexico, U.S.A.
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Producer

Martin Bisi

1960–2000

b. 1961, New York, New York, U.S.A.
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