nicholas b jacobsen
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nicholas b jacobsen

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I'm nicholas b jacobsen, a seventh-generation Utah-Mormon, a European U.S. American raised in the traditional homelands of the Nuwu, or Southern Paiute.  I am an artist and researcher dedicated to unsettling settler-colonialism, being a witness to Whiteness, and mending the human/nature divide in dominant U.S. culture. I use self-critique to understand Whiteness, hetero-patriarchy, and human exceptionalism.
I alter objects, imagery, and text from my American, Mormon, and desert upbringing to highlight myths of U.S. American innocence and supremacy, and the violences those myths attempt to conceal. 
My work is an entanglement of installation, performance, video, ceramics, sculpture, writing, and digital collage.
My research is slow, embodied, and place-based, emphasizing the time and attention it takes to develop a lasting, visceral understanding of something. Through my work I want others to come away with an open, ongoing, multi-sensorial curiosity about themselves and the world we are all submerged within.


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  • home
  • from
  • pots are rocks
    • about the clay
    • processing clay
    • pottery >
      • mugs, plates, & bowls
      • planters, baskets, & vases
      • pet bowls
      • ceramics archive
  • to be a rock
  • publications & posters
    • publications & posters
    • glossary of unsettling origins >
      • answers / uncertainty
      • appropriate / appropriate
      • arrangement
      • baby and the bathwater
      • body
      • Book of Mormon, the
      • care
      • change
      • the Church
      • clinging
      • concrete
      • decolonization
      • Deseret
      • ebb / flow
      • embodied / embedded
      • extermination / excommunication
      • fake rocks / real rocks
      • fluid
      • Great Basin
      • groudlessness
      • home
      • human exceptionalism
      • ignor(e/ance)
      • inside / outside
      • kin(d)
      • Lamanites
      • land
      • Latter-days
      • magic / ritual
      • map
      • mountain / valley
      • migration
      • mine / mine
      • myth
      • noninnocence / risk
      • opening / closing
      • origins / foundations
      • path
      • phantom pains
      • problematic
      • Red (Cliffs National Conservation Area)
      • reify
      • remember / memory / memorial
      • rocks / stones
      • southwestern Utah
      • spiritual experience
      • stable / settled
      • there / their
      • this land
      • trauma
      • Ut(ah/opia)
      • under / inner
      • "what is"
      • white out / white supremacy
    • I' M P U R E (words)
  • about
  • more
    • sculpture
    • watching the ground
    • sketches
    • our bodies as/of water