ebb and flow

Curated by GLAM Collective (Dr. Julie Nagam, Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Dr. Carla Taunton)
Nocturne, Halifax, 2020.

ebb and flow, a curated showcase by GLAM Collective of media and performance-based work by six national and international Indigenous artists explores the push and pull of the role technologies (past and present) play in the transmission of Indigenous knowledges, as well as the call and response between histories and futurities often present in Indigenous arts.  ebb and flow considers how Indigenous artists activate continuities of cultural practice and memory by transforming performance, customary practices, and design as carriers of intergenerational knowledge, and by engaging with contemporary dance, music, practice, and more. In turn humorous, challenging, and transcendent, this projection installation encourages viewers to contemplate how Indigenous embodied knowledges about land and water are located in objects, materialities, sound, languages, and songs as well as bodies.

 

We stand in solidarity with the Mi’kmaw Nation and Mi’kmaw fishers treaty rights of 1752. 

 Artists

Logan McDonald (Mi’kmaw, Ktaqamkuk [Newfoundland])

Allison Akootchook Warden ( Iñupiaq, Alaska)

Kaaterina Kerekere (Te Aitanga a Hauiti, Ngai Tamanuhiri and Ngai Tahu, Aotearoa [New Zealand])

Kereama Taepa (Te Arawa and Te Āti Awa, Aotearoa [New Zealand])

Amrita Hepi (Bundjulung and Ngāpuhi, Australia/ Aotearoa [New Zealand])

Couzyn Van Heuvelen (Inuit, Nunavut)

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