Skawennati | Ne Tá:we Ne Onkwehonwenéha (The Future is Indigenous)
The Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre (FCDC) is proud to welcome guest speaker, Skawennati – Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 | 10:30am - 12:00pm EST
Skawennati will present an online talk, Ne Tá:we Ne Onkwehonwenéha (The Future is Indigenous), discussing her work with Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, including the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, the Skins workshops, and her machinima and textiles practice.
All students, faculty and staff are welcome!
Zoom link: https://ocadu.zoom.us/j/89987034697?pwd=dDBHY1ZkUXVrUWkwRnFvaWtGSWVwUT09
BIO:
Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her work has been widely presented in both group exhibitions and solo shows and is included in public and private collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. She was honoured to receive the 2019 Salt Spring National Art Prize Jurors’ Choice Award, a 2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship and a Visiting Artist Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library. She’s represented by ELLEPHANT.
Born in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, Skawennati holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she resides. She is Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a research-creation network. Their projects include the Skins workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling and Digital Media as well as the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF).
Presented as part of the FCDC’s Indigenous Education Speaker Series - this is a series of free public education events open to all OCAD U students, faculty and staff, and the broader community. The events are meant to be educational and thought-provoking, facilitating respectful knowledge engagement, and advancing dialogue and thinking about decolonization, Indigenous pedagogies and Indigenous knowledge systems.
Please email fcdc@ocadu.ca if you have any questions about the event.