John Fekner
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Throughout his career, whether collaboratively or independently, New York City born John Fekner explores a wide range of issues including concepts of perception and transformation, as well as specific environmental and sociological concerns. He works with a wide variety of media; ranging from street works and poems, to paintings, digital video and new media. Fekner’s work and installations have been exhibited in city streets, galleries, alternative art spaces and museums worldwide.
Trail Markers
2006 03:52
Trail Markers includes audio samples from "Travelogue The 80s", "The Sight of the Child" and "Wheels Over Indian Trails" from the album Idioblast by John Fekner City Squad recorded by Dennis Lattmann. Music by John Fekner, Dave Santaniello, Jim Recchione. Video & 8mm film by John Fekner and Fred Baca, Voices: Ric from the Mohawk Nation/New York, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman and Anthony Leicht. Video and audio remix by Fekner and Jeewon Shin.

Trail Markers movie dialog: Ric, a Mohawk Nation Indian: “Some of them can see the writing on the wall. Others see it but they don’t give a dam. And others just don’t see it. All they can see is the Almighty dollar. You know, its like I say, it takes all kind of people to make up the world. And it’s a case of who’s going to be the strongest and who’s going do the work. Who’s gonna get it done. But it must be done. Otherwise, the whole world is, will come to an end. You know that my people lived with a balance of nature all those thousands of years before the white man; and whenever they took something, they always gave something. And it worked out fine. And the white man came along and he just took, took, took. He’s been taking all these hundreds of years. Now after all these hundreds of years, now he’s realizing that he gotta start putting back. I mean he’s working like hell to put it back, but you got other people still taking. The Almighty dollar means everything to them. They don’t realize that the Almighty dollar isn’t going to be worth anything to them if there’s no world to use it in.”