OSKÂYI ASKÎY at Wanuskewin Heritage Park October 2017 – January 2018 Oskâyi Askîy, which means The New World in Cree, explores themes of human survivance, engaged by Anishinaabe cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor as he writes about “the enunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry.” Oskâyi Askîy carries survivance into reflective spaces of activation, as we now witness international artistic trends engulfing the apocalyptic. In Art in The Age of Asymmetry, Timothy Morton proposes, “that we have entered a new era of aesthetics, shaped by the current ecological emergency.” The Oskâyi Askîy project is an abstract body of work that considers a disconnected rapport with the environment as a result of misdirected human desire. The Sky, Animals and Land are processed through technology and are translated as flesh, fauna and playful apparatus. As a working methodology, this space acts as an exploratory arena to consider solutions to the social and environmental calamities at hand. More information on the Wanuskewin website.
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MORNING STAR at the University of Toronto at The Jackman Humanities Institute Curated by Jason Baerg and Darryn Doull September 13, 2017–August 14, 2018 The Jackman Humanities Institute 170 St George Street, 10th Floor Morning Star rises. Waabanang is Ojibwe for Morning Star or the planet Venus and has been a beacon of light, serving as a navigational entity for Indigenous Peoples of this land for millennia. In response to the 2017-18 annual theme of the Jackman Humanities Institute, Morning Star ascends to shine light on presence, visibility and collective Indigenous agency to renounce naïve impressions of (re)conciliation that continue to be discussed throughout much of the settler culture across Turtle Island. By opening personal, psychic and linguistic pathways that simultaneously guide to one and lead away from another, Indigenous kinship and survivance come into sharp focus. Anamnesis propels Morning Star forward as the reminiscent past collides with the future past. While the research of the JHI queries apology as a labored apparatus addressing indelible violence and the effects of conciliation alongside acknowledged colonial shame, may the individuals represented in this exhibition and the creators who manifest their likenesses guide both the thought and action of this immediate community and beyond. Informed by the full […]
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TRAUMA, MEMORY AND THE STORY OF CANADA at SACHA (South Asian Canadian Histories Association) September 30 – December 3, 2017 More information on the SACHA website.
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WHERE THE WEATHER HAPPENS at the Niagara Arts Centre Curated by Amy Malbeuf and Jessie Short Featuring Work by Jason Baerg, Jaime Koebel, Sheri Nault Opening Reception Saturday 9 September 6PM-8PM The troposphere is a layer of the earth’s atmosphere in which human beings exist, connecting the land to the perceived sky. It is the place where nearly all of the weather on earth happens. The works of Jason Baerg, Jaime Koebel and Sheri Nault activate the land and sky, and all that is within, through their intimate and delicate expression of deep connection to this space of energetic flux. Where The Weather Happens is an expression of the relationship and interactions between the land and sky as beings who live within this space. More info on Niagara Arts Centre website. above image: After winter // signs of life (1). Pastel and drawing paper. 2016. Sheri Nault
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