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MEMORY KEEPERS 1  Montreal Nuit Blanche 2019

GLAM
ART WORK
March 2, 2019
Concordia University, Montreal
Curated by GLAM Collective & Lesley Beardy




In an intensive week-long art-creation workshop, seven emerging and mid-career Indigenous artists collaborated on an outdoor installation in the courtyard of Concordia’s FOFA Gallery for the night of Nuit Blanche.

Gathering at Concordia’s Indigenous Futures research cluster of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, the group of animators, painters, filmmakers, and mixed media artists shared skills, stories, and urban Indigenous experiences. Participating artists include Darcie Bernhardt, Glenn Gear, Megan Kyak-Monteith, Tom McLeod, Caroline Monnet, Jason Sikoak, and Jesse Tungilik.

Memory Keepers I was the first of three intensive artist residencies run by Transactive Memory Keepers, curated by GLAM Collective.

Partners
University of Winnipeg
NSCAD University
Concordia University
MEMORY KEEPERS 2 Charlottetown Art in the open 2019

GLAM
ART WORK
August 24, 2019
Art in the Open, Charlottetown, PEI
Curated by GLAM Collective with Darcie Bernhardt and Megan Kyak-Monteith (Inuit Futures ilinniaqtuit)



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.

MEDIA COVERAGEAmanda Shore, “Memory Keepers II,” The Buzz PEI, August 2019. Jolinne Kearns, “Memory Keepers II on view at Art in the Open in Charlottetown,” NSCAD University, August 24, 2019.
MEMORY KEEPERS 3
NUJIMIKWITE’TAQATIJIK 3

GLAM
ART WORK
CARRIE ALLISON
SÉBASTIEN AUBIN
DARCIE BERNHARDT + TOM MCLEOD JERRY EVANS
MEGAN KYAK-MONTEITH
CAROLINE MONNET
JASON SIKOAK




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 III | Nujimikwite’taqatijik III was a site-specific, experimental, collaborative visual art installation created by eight Indigenous artists from Halifax and across southern and northern Canada, led by GLAM Collective and presented at NSCAD’s University’s Treaty Space Gallery at the Port Campus. 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, eight works by eight artists were produced in two one-week intensive visual arts residencies at Concordia University and NSCAD University in 2019, which culminated in the installation of Memory Keepers I | Gardiens des mémoires I at Nuit Blanche in Montreal, QC and Memory keepers II | Nujimikwite’taqatijik II at Art in the Open in Charlottetown, PEI.  The artists featured in the third installation of the Memory Keepers series bring their diverse creative practices together to create experiential, interactive, digital and site-specific works. The participating artists were Carrie Allison, Sébastien Aubin, Darcie Bernhardt, Tom McLeod, Jerry Evans, Megan Kyak-Monteith, Caroline Monnet, and Jason Sikoak.

The installation was hosted by NSCAD University’s Treaty Space Gallery as part of Nocturne: Art at Night. Drawing on the fun and spontaneous spirit of Nocturne in creating this site-specific experimental art exhibition, Memory keepers III | Nujimikwite’taqatijik III took the theme of Scaffolding in both technological terms - drawing on digital and new media arts to create an exciting, interactive installation - but also to refer to the idea of Indigenous resurgence, situating Indigenous peoples within a long continuum of past, present and future on this land.

Playing with concepts of memory keeping, these artists encode, store and retrieve knowledge of the land, language, and cultural practices. Memory Keepers III | Nujimikwite’taqatijik III is a series of site specific, 
experimental, collaborative media art installations created by eight Indigenous artists during two art incubators curated by GLAM Collective. Their artwork translates and transmits Indigenous knowledge for future generations.


ARTISTS

Carrie Allison is an Indigenous mixed-ancestor multidisciplinary visual artist based in Halifax.

Sebastien Aubin is a Montreal-based artist and graphic designer, and a proud member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba.

Darcie Bernhardt is an emerging Inuvialuit painter and curator, recent NSCAD graduate and current Assistant Curator at the MSVU Art Gallery.

Jerry Evans is a master Mi’kmaq print maker, tattoo artist and powwow dancer from Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland).

Megan Kyak-Monteith is an Inuk painter from Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Nunavut, currently based in Halifax.

Tom McLeod is a Gwich’in and Inuvialuit emerging installation and new media artist with professional experience in the film industry

Caroline Monnet is an established Algonquin-French contemporary artist and filmmaker known for her work in sculpture, installation and film

Jason Sikoak is a graphic artist from Nunatsiavut studying Studio Arts at Concordia University.


CURATORS

GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) is a collective of scholars which consists of Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Dr. Julie Nagam and Dr. Carla Taunton. They work through theory, curatorial and artistic practice that prioritize collaborative projects that activate/generate space for visiting/gathering; sharing of knowledge and mentorship.


Nujimikwite’ta qatijik 3
Mi’kmaw translation by Diane Mitchell

Nujitasked
with, responsible to do..., designated to do...

-mikwite’-
the morpheme for “remember”

-taqatijik
«they» (in Mi’kmaw there are singular, dual and plural endings for many verbs).





Gathering Across
Moana

GLAM
ART WORK







Indigenous peoples have drawn connections across vast distances, continents, and bodies of water for thousands of years, revealing the space between us as potential site for sharing knowledge, experience, and technology. Working from the Pacific view of water (moana and va) as a mode of connection between islands, and by extension, Turtle Island (North America), these exhibitions will explore the transference of ideas through various media across geographic distances, timespans, and cultures. Together these artists delve into the sharing of knowledge and postulate locations of connection in the future, including imagined concepts of place.


TMAC

Glenn Gear is a multi-disciplinary artist of Inuit, Irish, and English descent, based in Montréal and originally from Newfoundland.

Cheryl L’Hirondelle is an award winning Halfbreed/Cree
interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates the dynamism of nêhiyawak cosmology in a contemporary time-place continuum.

Hana Rakena is a ceramic artist from Ngāi Tahu and Ngā Puhi. Hana has a BA in English from Canterbury University.

Rachael Rakena (Ngai Tahu, Nga Puhi) is a video artist who works, frequently in collaboration, to create richly layered performative installations, DVDs and digital stills.


Trinity Square Video

Reweti Arapere + Erena Baker are visual artists from Aotearoa New Zealand and have exhibited extensively both throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally.

Bruno Canadien (Dene) works primarily as a painter, using paint and mixed media to convey ideas surrounding the intersection of Indigenous sovereignty, colonialism, resource exploitation, resistance and presence.

Tsēmā Igharas is an award-winning Tahltan Indigenous interdisciplinary artist making work that connects materials to mine sites and bodies to the land.

Sarah Houle is a Métis multidisciplinary artist based in Calgary and her work is autobiographical with an interest in technology, fantasy and craft.

Niki Little (Anishininew / English) is an artist/observer and a founding member of The Ephemerals who interested in Indigenous economies and cultural consumption through community-based strategies.

Kereama Taepa’s practice considers the tradition of innovation by exploring the relationships between Māori philosophy and digital technologies.

Cora-Allan Wickliffe is a multidisciplinary artist from Waitakere and is of Niue and Māori heritage. Her practice often examines constructed identities of indigenous people and focuses on developing platforms for the self determination of such representations.

Dr. Johnson Witehira is an artist, designer and academic. He is a leader in Indigenous innovation in art and design, with a focus on Māori design.


A SPACE WINDOWS

Kali Spitzer is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, BC) on her father’s side and Jewish from Transylvania, Romania on her mother’s side and her work includes portraits, figure studies, and photographs of her people, ceremonies, and culture.


CURATORS

GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) is a collective of scholars which consists of Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Dr. Julie Nagam and Dr. Carla Taunton. They work through theory, curatorial and artistic practice that prioritize collaborative projects that activate/generate space for visiting/gathering; sharing of knowledge and mentorship.

Noor Bhangu is an emerging curator and scholar of South Asian descent and is currently based Tkaronto/Toronto.

A Space WINDOWS
Sept 30 ― no v 02
Kali Spitzer




TMAC galleries
oct 01 ― oct 27
Glenn Gear
Cheryl L’Hirondelle
Rachael Rakena +
Hana Rakena
Trini ty Square Video
oct 04 ― no v 02
Reweti Arapere + Erena Baker Arapere
Bruno CanadiEn
Tsēmā Igharas
Sarah Houle Niki Little Kereama Taepa
Cora-Allan Wick liffe Johnson Witehira


GLAM Collective
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums)