Peter Morin and Ayumi Goto guideing participants through a performative introduction to bodies in spaces
After a highly successful first week, the O k’inādās Residency and Summer Indigenous Intensive are in full swing.
The Indigenous Summer Intensive, coordinated by the Creative Studies Department, in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, features a core group of senior artists who will be developing 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.
Everyone is invited to attend discussions, events, and openings! We have compiled a short list of some of what’s coming up next week so that anyone who is interested and able to attend can plan ahead.
Tuesday, July 12
Eyes Closed Blind Field Shuttle
Carmen Papalia, Social Practice artist based in Vancouver, will be leading ‘Eyes Closed Blind Field Shuttle’ through downtown Kelowna. Participants are asked to meet at 9am at the Rotary Centre for the Arts.
Wednesday, July 13
Round table discussion, UNC Theatre (UBCO Campus) at noon.
Guests Adrian Stimson, David Khang, Lori Blondeau, Carmen Papalia, and Michelle Jacques will be joining us for the second of the weekly Round Table discussion series.
Last week’s highly successful talk grew out of a consideration of the notion of The Body, a body, or bodies (ours, collective, national, personal) in relation to artists’ creative practice and as a site of resistance and resiliency.
Building on last week’s panel discussion we thought we would continue the theme this week by asking our current panel to discuss how The Body might be seen as an expression of Territory and Sovereignty?”
Thursday, July 14
Aboriginal and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Keeper Richard Armstrong will lead us in welcome and in discussion of the Okanagan-Similkameen – unceded territory of the Syilx people. Please join us at noon by the Stone Circle by the pond, on campus, near Platypus House.
Friday, July 15
Double opening at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art. 7-9pm
Farheen Haq: Being Home and Shannon Lester: Of Goddesses and Mothers
Kelowna Art Gallery, 7pm Opening – Deborah Koenker: Grapes and Tortillas (solo show on Mexican seasonal agricultural workers in the Okanagan).
We hope you can join us at some (or all) of the above events. It looks to be an exciting second week of the the O k’inādās Residency and Summer Indigenous Art Intensive Program.
Click HERE for a list of other upcoming disucssions or for more information visit www.rmooc.ca