SOVEREIGN VOICES: THROUGH POETICS + PERFORMANCE
Asinnajaq, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Geraldine King, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Arielle Twist, Erica Violet Lee
Co-curated with Camille Georgeson-Usher, Sebastian De Line, Lisa C. Ravensbergen
14–15 February 2018
Art & Media Lab, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Sovereign Voices: through poetics + performance is a two-part series with process-based performances, poetics and discussions centred on bringing space into dialogue with Indigenous languages, histories and embodied ways of being. Through a responsive and conversational approach, the series asks: how can space be occupied when Indigenous peoples have the sovereign volition to shape it?
We have situated this event series through a call-response methodology. Six Indigenous artists, poets, performers and activists have been invited to engage in a two-part conversation series where we began thinking through the idea of how poetics exist in our relationships and how we and our voices exist together in space. The series is further activated through an exhibition by Asinnajaq and Camille Georgeson-Usher, this world; here, responding to their friendship and the ties that bind, break and continue to become stitched together through connections of ethical relationality.
Sovereign Voices is part of the Conversations in Indigenous Arts program designed and supported by the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Dr. Dylan Robinson, with additional support from Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Art & Media Lab at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS), and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University.
Asinnajaq, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Geraldine King, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Arielle Twist, Erica Violet Lee
Co-curated with Camille Georgeson-Usher, Sebastian De Line, Lisa C. Ravensbergen
14–15 February 2018
Art & Media Lab, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Sovereign Voices: through poetics + performance is a two-part series with process-based performances, poetics and discussions centred on bringing space into dialogue with Indigenous languages, histories and embodied ways of being. Through a responsive and conversational approach, the series asks: how can space be occupied when Indigenous peoples have the sovereign volition to shape it?
We have situated this event series through a call-response methodology. Six Indigenous artists, poets, performers and activists have been invited to engage in a two-part conversation series where we began thinking through the idea of how poetics exist in our relationships and how we and our voices exist together in space. The series is further activated through an exhibition by Asinnajaq and Camille Georgeson-Usher, this world; here, responding to their friendship and the ties that bind, break and continue to become stitched together through connections of ethical relationality.
Sovereign Voices is part of the Conversations in Indigenous Arts program designed and supported by the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Dr. Dylan Robinson, with additional support from Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Art & Media Lab at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS), and Cultural Studies at Queen’s University.
Photo credit: Michelle Bunton