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Let the Water Decide
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Eaidánis & Waawaashkeshiwag in Families and Constellations
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Yaaaaw, That one Right Bit Her!
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Becoming with the Ogre, the Phoenix, and the Faithful Friend
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The afterlife of Wundr
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Spaces for Hesitation
Meghan: What brings you joy? Kosisochukwu: Getting out of my comfort zone. Long walks. The Ultimatum on Netflix—it’s a whole mess. My family and friends. The knowledge that I am intentionally creating this life that I’ve chosen to live.︎ website ︎ instagram
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Shape Shifter
Shantha: During a panel for International Women’s Day, you spoke a lot about community work. What does that look like for you? Violet: Since the beginning of my professional practice, I have been working towards a world where my art and activism melt together as one. Thankfully these days I can say this is true.…
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Embodied Silences
Meghan: What is something —anything— you would like to bring attention to? Lukas: For those that are rarely silent, I would like to urge you to consider practicing silence. In a one-on-one conversation, practice leaving a gap of silence between the end of their expression, and your response. You might be surprised at how much…
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Shifting Perspective
Devyani Saltzman has broken a lot of ground in Canada’s arts and culture scene—a founding curator of Toronto’s Luminato, the first woman of colour to hold the position of Director of Public Programming for the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Director of Literature at Banff before that. Now, working beyond our borders for the first…
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Ninga Mìnèh
In Conversation HIMA: After almost 18 months of revealing more of so-called Canada’s history of genocide against Indigenous communities, how are you really? CAROLINE: People forget that Indigenous communities have gone through so much. They forget the history. Let alone knowing the history. It’s a good thing this chaotic past comes to light. But it…
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Intergenerational Shifts
NEWEST INTERVIEW INTERGENERATIONAL SHIFTS BY SATNAM SINGH AND AMRIT (NOYZ) SINGH a conversation between father and son Listen to the full conversation here: NOYZ: This is Amrit Singh, also known as Noyz. I’m a rapper and author from Brampton, Ontario. And at the end of 2019, I released my first book entitled “Keep Moving On:…
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Earth Bodies 2
EARTH BODIES SARAH MAY TAYLOR & D’BI. YOUNG ANITAFRIKA INTRODUCTION: The Anitafrika Method is an integrative, critically-reflexive, trauma-informed, decolonial framework used to support the growth and development of artists, educators, innovators and leaders. It is a practitioner-centred arts-based intervention that nurtures self-transformation, creative expression & community embodiment. Created by d’bi.young anitafrika from the Dub theory…
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Respectful Design
RAJI: I’ve spoken before on my advocacy for education and curriculum reform, so I wanted to chat with you about decolonizing Canadian education and its impact on design students. They go through a Western education system that teaches students exclusively Western ways of knowing and speaking. EDT: At Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)…
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Going the Distance
RAJI AUJLA: Your point of view doesn’t come from trauma, but from reclamation of certain historical atrocities that are unclaimed in political documents and records. Has that always been the case for you? MANUEL MATHIEU: Growing up in an environment where I was exposed to certain things, I built a cocoon around myself, so I…
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Figments & Pigments
FIGMENTS & PIGMENTS Studio session with abstract artist Callum Schuster on the psychology of colour, memory, and magnets Photography by Aakanksha Luthra + Callum Schuster NEWEST: Is your studio an insight into your brain or heart? CALLUM SCHUSTER: Maybe both? Could be one in the same but perceived separately, with the object as the brain…
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Traversing the Void
TRAVERSING THE VOID MARISA GALLEMIT X RHIANNON VOGL On finding identity through found objects and locating self in lineage. RHIANNON VOGL: We’ve been talking about how your art practice is a form of placemaking, a sort of knowledge acquisition, a way to excavate, embody and explore ties to your Filipino roots. MARISA GALLEMIT: My work…
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The medicine wheel of Hip-Hop
THE MEDICINE WHEEL OF HIP-HOP DAVID STRICKLAND An essay on Hip-Hop as 21st century Indigenous culture As a child, my first dream was to become a professional hockey player in the NHL. Then Hip-Hop entered my life, and my whole life changed. Feeling a connection to my Indigenous roots came later; then my whole life…
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Paper Trail
PAPER TRAIL BY MALLIKA VIEGAS On love, legality and LGBT migration with Porus Vimadalal and Prayag Menon. MALLIKA VIEGAS: I see your online following and presence, and it’s remarkable. Fashion is not the most forgiving of industries. Was there a point where things really got going and you felt comfortable? PRAYAG MENON: When I started…
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Swellings in the Tide
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Continental Drifts
Introduction by Corrie Jackson. Human experience isn’t monolithic. Contemporary art offers possible perspectives through which futures can be considered, experienced and defined. Artists play a critical role in this imagining. They create portals into ways of being, and ways of being in-relation. The parameters for how these proposals come into association with those of us…
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Nude in the Grass
Introduction by Bonnie Devine It is my intense and wonderful pleasure to be introducing Dr. Andrea Fatona. Andrea’s research and practice is concerned with issues of equity in the arts, and the pedagogical possibilities of artworks produced by “other” Canadians to articulate broader perspectives and Canadian identities. Andrea’s interests are in the ways that art,…
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The Groundwork
In Conversation ANA: This International Women’s Day seems even more important than ever. The pandemic has shone a light on so many of the inequities present in society not least of all, the importance of “care-taking” in all its forms and how we need to find a balance between how we take care of each…
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Earth Bodies
The Anitafrika Method. The Anitafrika Method is an integrative, critically-reflexive, trauma-informed, decolonial framework used to support the growth and development of artists, educators, innovators and leaders. It is a practitioner-centred arts-based intervention that nurtures self-transformation, creative expression & community embodiment. Created by d’bi.young anitafrika from the Dub theory of her mother—pioneer Dub poet Anita Stewart—the…
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How to Win at Board Games
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Lighting the qulliq (traditional Inuit oil lamp)
Malina is my reimagined story of the sun goddess. In the original story, Malina is repeatedly sexually assaulted in the dark by her brother and flees into the sky when she catches him in the act. The story is that she becomes the sun and the brother becomes the moon, chasing her everyday. I created…
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Collaborations into the future
Raji There’s a couple of responses to you. One, you must be around some great white folks that are thinking like this because there are so many people that don’t. Shary What kind of white people are you guys hanging out with because I hear this stuff from my friends all the time. Ha. Maybe…
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A Bouquet of Flowers
The relationship between Palestinian identity, survivor guilt and his art practice.
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Mirror, Mirror
There is usually a strong gender divide; women participate, while men prefer not to touch Highlighted by Najmabadi, the role of mirrors in Qajar art suggestively asserts the viewer to assume a participatory role. As the figures in the paintings from this period possess strong outward gazes, mirrors in the image are positioned such that…
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Our eternal beings
Raji: You both responded to this theme, Ceremonial Deaths, from your respective vantage points. I’m curious what you’ve been thinking about? Howie: I was like: oh, I am already thinking about mingqi (burial objects) and developing a project around this practice of bone repatriation and funerary objects. I’m researching this Canadian Chinese history around the…
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The brushstrokes of a living ancestor
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Rust as Memory, but also as Time
Meghan: I’m so curious about this idea of immersion. You’ve created a space in which the audience can be immersed, but in the process, you were immersed in the act of painting—a new and different practice for you. What did it feel like to immerse yourself in this practice, in your body, to create this,…