Can history, memory, archives, and power dynamics be dissociated from each other?
https://vimeo.com/824519366 Can history, memory, archives, and power dynamics be dissociated from each other? Yen-Chao Lin & Oliver Lewis Description Cloud of Pages explores the interdependent and complex relationship of history, archive, memory and power dynamics. We are both avid collectors of cultural artifacts and specimens of mineral, botanical, animal and industrial origins; objects that stare […]
What’s new?
https://vimeo.com/830841797 What’s new? Troy Gronsdahl Description What’s new? I’ve always disliked this question. It’s innocent enough, I know, frequently used to initiate a conversation, but in the monotonous routines of a pandemic lockdown, nothing much was new. Of course, the pandemic itself was new and it dominated every conversation, but during this time my compulsion […]
How does a tragic memory affect how you perceive the present?
https://vimeo.com/831024670 How does a tragic memory affect how you perceive the present? Joyce Joumaa Description It is less a matter of immersiveness in the space but rather, what being in the space can have us understand as something new about the world that we inhabit which brought me to think around this work using VR […]
Must the man of culture be an inventor of souls?
https://vimeo.com/830860651 Must the man of culture be an inventor of souls? Josiane Blanc Description To me, there was something interesting and intriguing about everything that surrounds the transmission of culture, art and its reception. The message, this first intention which every artist has when he begins creating, does not really belong to him anymore once […]
What do monuments mean to you?
https://vimeo.com/830897421 What do monuments mean to you? Joi T. Arcand Description The curatorial question: What is your relationship to monuments, as someone from the Prairies now living in Ottawa? In approaching this question, I must situate myself as a nēhiyaw-iskwēw with German-Canadian settler and Métis lineage who was born and raised on a Treaty 6 […]
How to discover unknown territories or phenomena related to the mind? Could these discoveries be in fact reminiscences of past experiences?
https://vimeo.com/830909794 How to discover unknown territories or phenomena related to the mind? Could these discoveries be in fact reminiscences of past experiences? Ivetta Sunyoung Kang Description There are layers and layers when looking at one’s house in extreme detail. It’s always surprising how complicatedly they have been woven up and down, in joints, throughout the […]
How can you listen to nature while keeping peace with your elders?
How can you listen to nature while keeping peace with your elders? G.R. Gritt Description Cultural resurgence and resilience within our colonial context deeply affect me, my family, and the work I produce. I am continually thinking about my place as a white-coded Anishinaabe-Métis person, as a transgender, two-spirit and non-binary person, and as a […]
From here to there
https://vimeo.com/830989076 From here to there Casey Koyczan Description “My Journey” is a VR film with interwoven video of the search for driftwood within the river systems of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The video visits two spots at the same time for this search and although I was unsuccessful in finding the materials I was looking for, it […]
Skoden?
https://vimeo.com/830998663 Skoden? Bracken Hanuse Corlett Description I was asked by curator Lori Blondeau to respond to the word Skoden as part of a coded communication in “our contemporary lives as NDN people on this land.” I remember when the first Skoden meme started making the rounds on social media. It featured a Blackfoot man named […]
Where do we go from here?
https://vimeo.com/831009068 Where do we go from here? Annie Beach Description Ogidakeh (to be put up, to stand high in the community, to be held with high esteem) Inspired by the long-standing Anishinaabe Seven Fires Prophecy that predicted newcomers and the turmoil that was to be experienced by First Nations of Turtle Island, Ogidakeh was an […]