Danis Goulet Scott Benesiinaabandan Postcommodity Kent Monkman 2167 – An Indigenous VR Project

Date(s): Dec 12 to 16, 2017

Event

2167 – An Indigenous VR Project

Danis Goulet, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Postcommodity, Kent Monkman

Exhibition
December 12-16, 2017

Artist Talk
Saturday, December 16, 2017, from 4 to 5pm
with artist Scott Benesiinaabandan
in conversation with Jason Lewis from AbTeC

A virtual reality project commissioned and produced by TIFF, imagineNATIVE, Pinnguaq and Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IFF).

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2167 – An Indigenous VR Project

Danis Goulet co-programs the Festival’s Short Cuts programme. She is the former Artistic Director of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and has curated award-winning short-film commissioning projects including Embargo Collective I and II. Goulet has developed initiatives for the Ontario Arts Council, served on the boards for the Toronto Arts Council and the Images Festival, and is a former programming committee member for the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival.

Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinabe intermedia artist that works primarily in photography, printmaking and video. He recently completed international residencies at Parramatta Artist Studios in Australia (12) and Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland (10), and was awarded the University Lethbridge/Royal Institute of Technology iAIR residency (13). He is currently in Montreal and recently completed a Canada Council New Media Production grant through OBx Labs/Ab-tech and Concordia.

http://www.benesiinaabandan.com/

Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist. They work to promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies, and to connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere.

http://postcommodity.com/

Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry who is well known for his provocative reinterpretations of romantic North American landscapes. Themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience – the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experience – are explored in a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation.

http://www.kentmonkman.com/
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