Aaksokgowamoski (Making Relations) – Symposium

Aaksokgowamoski (Making relations) invites Indigenous artists, curators, and scholars to discuss the ways that they locate their own practices within local, national, and international narratives of history, place, and belonging.

This symposium is being offered in conjunction with two exhibitions:

The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Dr. Joane Cardinal Schubert at the University of Calgary’s Nickle Galleries and Future Memories (Present Tense) at Illingworth Kerr Gallery (ACAD)

Participants 

Sonny Assu
Bruno Canadien
Dayna Danger
David Garneau
Tanya Harnett
Mark Igloliorte
Cheryl L’Hirondelle
Lisa Myers
Lindsay Nixon
Jessie Short
Cowboy Smithx
Rolande Souliere
Adrian Stimson

AAKSOKGOWAMOSKI (MAKING RELATIONS) - DAY 1

AAKSOKGOWAMOSKI (MAKING RELATIONS) - DAY 2

videography courtesy Lewis Liski

Related exhibition

6 Oct 2017 - 2 Dec 2017

Future Memories (Present Tense)

Future Memories (Present Tense) brings together six contemporary Indigenous artists from different regions of Canada, whose work diversely challenges linear ideas of time through story-telling.