Olivia Camfield
Olivia Camfield is a multimedia movement artist of the Muscogee Nation, born and raised in the Texas Hill Country. Their work finds connection of dance as body horror, tattooing as protection spells, and farming as Queer Indigenous Futurism. They have performed and choreographed dance for much of their career, and their film work includes themes of the Alien as kin, time traveling relatives, and Mvskoke lifeways in experimental forms. They are a tattoo artist whose hand poke practice is based in Southeastern and Mississippian Indigenous tattoo traditions, creating designs for Southeastern people that imagine the possibilities of those tattoos' into the future and the new shapes they may take. Since becoming a farmer in 2020, Olivia began the journey of becoming an Indigenous Seed Saver by learning seed saving techniques, researching historically stolen varieties, and participating in seed rematriation while working on farms. They are now finding the intersections of their artist practice and aesthetics and the ongoing work of Missisipian/Southeastern seed keeping. Olivia's films have screened internationally at Camden International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, and have appeared in print and online publications including ArtForum and Variety. Olivia was a 2018-2019 Alembic Artist In Residence, CYCLE I featured artist of COUSIN Collective, and 2022 Sundance Institute Indigenous Non-Fiction Intensive participant. They are currently a 2022 NACF LIFT awardee.