Each artist is their own memory keeper, where they encode, store and retrieve knowledge of the land, language, and cultural practices. Their artwork translates and transmits Indigenous knowledge for future generations. Memory Keepers II | Gardiens des mémoires II is a site-specific, experimental, collaborative visual art installation created by six Indigenous artists, presented at Art in the Open, and curated by GLAM Collective with Inuit Futures ilinniaqtuit Darcie Bernhardt and Megan Kyak-Monteith. GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) is a collective of curator-artist-scholars who present innovative projects in public spaces by working through Indigenous, feminist, and anti-oppressive methodologies.

For this project, a group of Indigenous artists who have never worked together before gathered for a one-week intensive visual arts residency culminating in the installation of Memory Keepers II | Nujimikwite’taqatijik II. Artists Carrie Allison, Sebastien Aubin, Jerry Evans, Tsēmā Igharas, Caroline Monnet, and Alberta Rose brought their diverse creative practices together to create an experiential, interactive, digital and site-specific installation for one night only. They drew on digital and new media arts to create an exciting, interactive installation referring to the idea of Indigenous futurisms, where Indigenous peoples are situated within a long continuum of past, present and future on this land.