nicholas b jacobsen – Kobi Weaver

nicholas b jacobsen is a seventh-generation Utah-Mormon, trans-nonbinary settler raised in Nuwu (Southern Paiute) homelands. As a creative historian, culture critic, & visual artist, their work addresses their personal and ancestral connections to the U.S. & Mormon settler-colonial-imperialist project via performance, video, installation, writing, digital collage, pottery, and found-object sculpture. Through this, they work to disassimilate from the myths of supremacy and innocence central to Mormon & U.S. cultures.

Kobi Weaver was raised in Mescalero Apache land, where they grew up a rebellious mormon, drawn to all the things forbidden or sacrilegious until they left the church and went to explore the outside world. They currently reside on occupied Tiwa Territory where they live with their partners and dogs by the Rio Grande river. They are an archaeologist by trade and organizer thanks to the people who taught them what it means to be in community and have international solidarity.