Talks
Artist Talk by Heidi McKenzie
Ceramic installation artist Heidi McKenzie discusses her work which illuminates the little-known history of Indo-Caribbean indentureship and the strength and resilience of Indo-Caribbean women, past and present. You can also watch this video on YouTube.
Relational Making: Activating Knowledge Through Objects and Spaces
Tashina Houle-Schlup, Dené Sinclair and KC Adams discuss their journey with relational and regalia making and share how it activates Indigenous ways of knowing. Featuring UWinnipeg Elder-in-Residence Sharon Pelletier and discussion moderator Cathy Mattes. You can also watch this video on YouTube.
The In-Between Art and Artists Panel Discussion
Artists Mahlet Cuff, Christina Hajjar, Jessie Jannuska, Julian K., Laura Lewis and Malaikah Rang’inya discuss Lewis’s exhibition as it relates to representations of queerness as well as each of their own creative practices. Featuring moderator Dr. Sharanpal Ruprai. You can also watch this video on YouTube.
Artist Talk by Amy Mazowita
Emerging scholar Amy Mazowita discusses her photo-based research project in progress, Life of Fire: An Ethnography of Smoke, Flame, Ash, and Earth, which documents the fire affected landscapes of Manitoba’s Whiteshell Provincial Park (Treaty 3). You can also watch this video on YouTube.
Artist Talk by Christina Battle
Multimedia artist Christina Battle speaks about her recent multimedia work which makes evident the intersections between environmental, social, political and economic issues facing us today. You can also watch this video on YouTube.
Legs Artist Talk
Multi-disciplinary artists Christine Fellows, Chantel Mierau and Jennifer Still discuss their collaborative short film “legs” with University of Winnipeg English professor Dr. Sandy Pool. You can also watch this video on YouTube.
Unsettling the Spirits Panel Discussion
Artists KC Adams, Chris Dorosz, Erika DeFreitas, and Paul Robles discuss the role that ghosts and intuition play in their art making. Featuring moderator Dr. Serena Keshavjee and discussant Catherine Van Reenan. You can also watch this video on YouTube.
Artist Talks by Takashi Iwasaki and Akira Yoshikawa
Japanese Canadian artists Takashi Iwasaki and Akira Yoshikawa discuss their art practices in this zoom talk presented as part of the exhibition Within and Beyond Tradition: Works by East Asian Artists in The University of Winnipeg Collection. This video can also be watched on YouTube.
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.
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