Talks
A Conversation with Collab Quilt Collective
Five members of the Collab Quilt Collective share their ongoing work as artist-makers who are sewing transformative textile conversations to unsettle divergent and overlapping colonial inheritances. You can also watch the video on YouTube.
Bringing to Light: IRSS, Reconciliation, Indigenous Matriarchy and Cultural Abundance
Three distinguished individuals share their knowledge in this public presentation. Aimée Craft speaks about the importance of matriarchy in traditional Indigenous communities which was negated by colonialism but is now seeing a resurgence. Elder Marlene Gallagher speaks about cultural abundance and learning from the land. Kaila Johnston speaks about residential schools and reconciliation on Treaty One Territory. You can also watch the video on YouTube.
Worried Earth Exhibition Tour
In this tour of the exhibition “Worried Earth: Eco-Anxiety and Entangled Grief”, Erica Mendritzki reads from her curatorial essay for the show. You can also watch the video on YouTube.
Worried Earth Panel Discussion: Talking About Eco-Anxiety, Entangled Grief and Life in an Age of Climate Catastrophe
Byron Beardy, Connie Chappel, Seema Goel, and Andrew Park join “Worried Earth” exhibition curators Erica Mendritzki and Melanie Zurba for a frank and personal discussion of their experiences navigating eco-anxiety and climate-change related grief, within their lives and in their respective professional disciplines. You can also watch the video on YouTube.
Eruptions Exhibition Tour
This brief tour of Grace Nickel’s exhibition "Eruptions” is narrated by ceramics writer and artist Heidi McKenzie who reads excerpts from her essay for the exhibition’s publication. The video can also be watched directly on YouTube.
SWARM Artists' Talk
The SWARM Collective comes together for a conversation about their online exhibition, SWARM. Moderated by exhibition co-curator and SWARM member Dallas Cant, this talk includes discussion with the artist-researchers about the context for their work on the arc.hive (exhibition website), including relationship to pollinators and ideas of sympoiesis or making-with. Includes ASL interpretation. The video can also be watched directly on YouTube.
Grace Nickel Artist Talk
In this webinar, artist and educator Grace Nickel provides context for her work shown in the Gallery 1C03 exhibition Eruptions in which she collects, studies, transforms, and memorializes felled trees and forest fragments in porcelain, considering links between the micro struggle for survival and macro crisis of climate change. This video can also be watched on YouTube.
Exploring the Universe: A Conversation with Rajni Perera
Sanctuaries artist Rajni Perera discusses her work with Hassaan Ashraf of Take Home BIPOC Arts House and Shaneela Boodoo of Patterns Collective. Together they explore topics such as sci-fi, world building, futurity and various modes of making within Perera’s past and present creative practice. This video can also be watched on YouTube.
Vanishing: A Conversation with Akum Maduka
Sanctuaries artist Akum Maduka discusses her work with Rachel Smith, a student in Dr. Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba’s UWinnipeg class on Genocide and Postcolonial Witnessing. The conversation engages with Akum’s artistic visions and commitments and questions about postcolonial perspectives to representations of female oppression and disappearances. Together, Akum and Rachel discuss connections with and responses to Titilope Sonuga’s poetry collection, This Is How We Disappear. Introduced by Dr. Anyaduba, this video can also be viewed on YouTube.
Sanctuaries Exhibition: Discussion with Curators and Artists
In conjunction with the Sanctuaries virtual exhibition, curators Patterns Collective (Shaneela Boodoo, Mahlet Cuff and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe) join artists Anique Jordan, Akum Maduka, Rajni Perera and Odudu Umoessien in conversation about their work in the show and themes of the virtual space as well as explore the pedagogy of their curatorial practice. The video is introduced by University of Winnipeg Assistant Professor Dr. Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba. It can also be watched directly on YouTube.
Sovereign Intimacies Exhibition Tour
Join Sovereign Intimacies curators Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith for a tour of the exhibition that was on view at Plug In ICA from September 26 – December 20, 2020. Himada and Smith discuss the exhibition and artworks as they relate to themes of cultural and community exchange between Indigenous artists and artists from the diaspora. This video can also be watched directly on YouTube.
Stitch-Kin: an evening of poetry with poet, filmmaker and textile artist melannie monoceros
Sovereign Intimacies artist melannie monoceros shares and reads from their suite of recent and older poems exploring ancestors, threadlove and lore, queer kinship, and grief. Following the poetry reading, melannie engages in conversation with the exhibition curators and answers questions from the audience. This video can also be watched directly on YouTube.
Weaver girl limns two rainbows: An Artist Talk by iris yirei hu
As part of the Sovereign Intimacies exhibition, artist iris yirei hu speaks about her work in conversation with exhibition curators Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith. Together, they talk about the ways in which collaborations and fostering space for transformative encounters within interpersonal, cross-cultural relationships manifest in the exhibition, and how we can look to the genuine and nurturing relationships in our daily lives for guidance in changing the way museums and art spaces operate. This video can also be watched directly on YouTube.
Un/spoken Video Screening Program Discussion
In conjunction with the Un/spoken online video screening program presented as part of the Sovereign Intimacies exhibition, Un/spoken curators Marie-Anne Redhead + Mariana Muñoz Gomez join artists Marissa Sean Cruz and Léuli Eshrāghi in a discussion of their videos and the larger themes they address in their work. The video is introduced by Sovereign Intimacies curators Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith. It can also be watched directly on YouTube.
South of Inuit Nunangat: An Online Conversation
In this live webinar, scholar and co-curator of the exhibition Alootook Ipellie: Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border, Heather Igloliorte (Nunatsiavut) moderates a public conversation with three urban Inuit women currently residing in Winnipeg about their experiences living and working outside of their homeland, Inuit Nunangat. Speakers include cultural advocate Nikki Komaksiutiksak, architecture graduate student Nicole Luke, and curator/artist Jocelyn Piirainen. View on YouTube.
Yearning for Comfort, Not Cure panel discussion
In conjunction with the Gallery 1C03 exhibition Yearning for Comfort, Not Cure, exhibiting artists Yvette Cenerini, Bram Keast, melannie monoceros and Jesse Turner speak about their creative practices. They also join exhibit curator Adele Ruhdorfer to discuss how their work explores embodied experiences with disability, chronic illness and madness. View on YouTube.
Enacting Stories panel discussion
Joi T. Arcand, Sonya Ballantyne, Leena Minifie and Tasha Spillett-Sumner discuss how they enact traditional and contemporary Indigenous stories that foreground strong and resilient Indigenous women through their creative work in visual art, film, graphic novels, media arts and curation. Chaired by Dr. Julie Nagam and presented in conjunction with Gallery 1C03’s exhibition When Raven Became Spider. View on YouTube.
Katherine Boyer
Katherine Boyer gave an artist talk on March 19, 2019 in conjunction with her solo exhibition Water Meets Body, presented at Gallery 1C03. View on YouTube.
Plants for Connection, Wellness and Healing panel discussion
Dr. Serena Keshavjee, Dr. Julie Nagam, Carl Smith, Dr. Delia Gavrus and Dr. Niigaan Sinclair discuss concepts of the flora of Manitoba and beyond, and its strong connection to science, Indigenous knowledge and epistemologies, ceremony and well-being and aesthetics. Presented in conjunction with Gallery 1C03’s exhibition locating the little heartbeats. View on YouTube.
Performative Body Archives panel discussion
Sarah Ciurysek, Dayna Danger and Ayqa Khan speak about their artistic practices and join independent curator Noor Bhangu to address emerging issues around the archive and the body through their work. Presented in conjunction with the Gallery 1C03 exhibition Not the Camera, But the Filing Cabinet: Performative Body Archives in Contemporary Art. View on YouTube.
Tracy Peters
Tracy Peters presented an artist talk on March 14, 2018 in conjunction with her solo exhibition Littoral Landscape, presented at Gallery 1C03. View on YouTube.
Erika Lincoln and Reva Stone
Artists Erika Lincoln and Reva Stone deliver artist talks on January 18, 2018 in relation to their two-person exhibition What Flies Above, presented at Gallery 1C03. The artists then join Gallery 1C03 Director/Curator Jennifer Gibson in conversation about the exhibition. View on YouTube.
Eleanor King
Eleanor King presented an artist talk on October 15, 2016 in conjunction with Sounding Space, an exhibition curated by send+receive: a festival of sound for Gallery 1C03. View on YouTube.
Adam Basanta
Adam Basanta presented an artist talk on September 29, 2016 in conjunction with Sounding Space, an exhibition curated by send+receive: a festival of sound for Gallery 1C03. View on YouTube.
Cafeteria - Part One – Elvira Finnigan
Elvira Finnigan presented an artist talk on March 30, 2016 in relation to Cafeteria, her collaborative process-based exhibition with Lisa Wood at Gallery 1C03. View on YouTube.
Cafeteria - Part Two – Lisa Wood
Lisa Wood presented an artist talk on March 30, 2016 in relation to Cafeteria, her collaborative process-based exhibition with Elvira Finnigan at Gallery 1C03. View on YouTube.
Cafeteria - Part Three - Discussion
Artists Elvira Finnigan and Lisa Wood join Gallery 1C03 Director/Curator Jennifer Gibson in conversation about their process-based exhibition Cafeteria which was shown in the Gallery March 3 – April 9, 2016. View on YouTube.
Ashley Gillanders
Ashley Gillanders presented an artist talk on February 2, 2016 in conjunction with her solo exhibition Methods of Preservation. View on YouTube.
Edgar Heap Of Birds
Edgar Heap Of Birds delivered a public lecture on his artistic practice on September 15, 2015 in conjunction with the presentation of his work in the Gallery 1C03 group exhibition A Putting Down of Roots. His lecture was made possible thanks to the support of the Office of the Associate Vice-President of Indigenous Affairs and the Department of Indigenous Studies at The University of Winnipeg and the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. View on YouTube.
Peter Tittenberger
Peter Tittenberger delivered an artist talk on February 27, 2015 in conjunction with his solo exhibition him and me. View on YouTube.
Mark Neufeld
Mark Neufeld presented an artist talk on January 19, 2015 during his Gallery 1C03 exhibition Re-enactments. View on YouTube.
Willow Rector
Willow Rector presented an artist talk on September 26, 2014 in conjunction with her solo exhibition Trapped. View on YouTube.
Patrick Mahon
Patrick Mahon discussed his artistic practise on January 17, 2014 in relation to his Gallery 1C03 exhibition Water Memory Table. View on YouTube.
Ian August
Ian August delivered an artist talk on November 13, 2013 in conjunction with his solo exhibition RE:BUILD THEM. View on YouTube.
Frank Shebageget
Frank Shebageget discussed his artistic practise on January 18, 2013 in conjunction with his solo exhibition at Gallery 1C03. View on YouTube.
Herstory Panel
A panel discussion with three generations of Manitoba women artists featuring Dominique Rey, Eva Stubbs & Diana Thorneycroft took place on March 27, 2013. It was organized in conjunction with the exhibition Herstory: Art by Women in The University of Winnipeg Collection. View on YouTube.