Andrea Geyer: We have talked about time, labour, performance, commitment to community, materials and the way culture runs through and within us as the artists who make it. Is there anything you would like to add? Maria Hupfield: I want to return to this idea of a thing or object as an event that unfolds […]
Nanabush’s trip stories the landscape with relational knowledges. When Nishnaabeg see a birch tree, we recognize a library of stories involving birch. When we see a lady’s slipper, or moss on rocks, or cranberries, or maple trees, or a woodpecker, or beaver, more libraries. Nanabush’s character is a reflection of Nishnaabewin and of Nishnaabeg themselves, […]
O the virtue of ignorance! So much nothing in this Doom life! Here’s the thing: who’s going to read this? Ask anyone but me. By Hercules, no one, not one person, no single body. Either sing a duet or be dumb in silence. Nothing between. “How deplorable to be deploring of art!” (There’s no basket […]
Yesterday I had one of the best art experiences of the current COVID-19 lock-down when I visited Reformatted, an exhibition created by Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) in collaboration with Kanien’kehá:ka artist Skawennati for Concordia University in Montreal as part of their Indigenous Futures research cluster. I had first encountered Skawennati’s work in the form […]
[Requited Flame (RF) is a sequence of daily Minus Plato posts comprising a photo of wall-text, a slide-show of installation shots, short videos, and a space for future comments about artists included in the exhibition Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel: Indigenous Contemporary International currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada in […]