A ‘remnant’ of a Peter Morin and Ayumi Goto performance called “Hair”. The rocks, removed from the natural environment to function as weights for the performing body, were then wrapped and gently re-placed where they were found….
Students are invited to register in the 2016 Indigenous Summer Intensive to be held on campus from July 4 to August 15, 2016.
Organized by the Department of Creative Studies in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, the program features a core group of senior artists: Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, David Garneau, Lee Maracle and Adrian Stimson. It will also include upwards of 20 visiting studio artists and curators in residence as part of the “K’inadas studio residency.” These artists will develop new work addressing issues related to the ongoing complex responses to reconciliation, and art-making practices as a radical methodology for decolonization and Indigenizing contemporary theoretical discourse and art praxis. These artists include:
Raymond Boisjoly; Charles Campbell; Warren Cariou; Millie Chen; Leah Decter; Kevin DeForest; Andrea Fatona; Mimi Gellman; Mark Igloriorte; Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez; Michelle Jacques; David Khang; Elizabeth Lapensée; Michelle Lavalee; Cheryl L’Hirondelle; Cathy Mattes; Tannis Nielsen; Srimoyee Mitra
Cecily Nicholson; Haruko Okano; Julie Okot-Bitek; Camille Turner; Jackson TwoBears; Olivia Whetung; Tania Willard; and Bear Witness.
Alongside the intensive residency, FCCS is offering numerous courses in visual art, creative writing, and performance. All of these courses will run in conjunction with the Indigenous Summer Intensive. Weekly meetings for all courses will allow for a sharing of multiple voices between the residency and the students. An online component will allow participation from artists and students not located at the UBCO campus.
O k’inadas is a multi-part project that will bring together artists from various artistic disciplines to inhabit a six-week residency that will result in the production of new individual and collaborative work addressing the complexities of reconciliation practices. The artists will be mostly Indigenous, with the non-Indigenous participants drawn largely from racialized communities, countering the usual reconciliation discussion framework that depends on the pairing of European and Indigenous parties. This different formation will be a radically unique contribution to responses to colonialism, allowing for the generation of a new creative paradigm around reconciliation. Curators, artists, and writers will work together to produce a significant body of work that transcends colonial politics and art-making.
k’inadas* is a three-person artist collective formed around the Tahltan oral articulation of “walking on the land.” The purpose of this collective is to function as an organizational hub to develop creative work with larger groups of artists that address the principles and problematics of reconciliation and land-based art. The collective is comprised of: Peter Morin, Tahltan interdisciplinary and performance artist, currently Assistant Professor of Visual and Aboriginal Art at Brandon University; Stephen Foster, Haida/Metis digital artist, currently Director of the Centre for Indigenous Media Arts (CIMA) at the University of British Columbia (Okaganan); and Ayumi Goto, Japanese-Canadian performance artist, currently a doctoral candidate in Communications Studies, Simon Fraser University.
This project is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the McConnell Foundation, and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus.
For course information, fccs.ok.ubc.ca/programs/summer.html