Conference-Meeting

Cycle "Rendez-vous du Gákte-quipo" with Barry Ace and Cannupa Hanska Luger

Tuesday 1 March 2022, 19:00

Oeuvre d'art exposée au musée d'ethnographie de Genève. Gákte-Quipo, de Máret Ánne Sara et Cecilia Vicuña, 2017. ©MEG, Johnathan Watts

What is the role of the artist in highlighting indigenous struggles? A meeting between two committed indigenous artists. Tuesday 1 March at 7pm.

This third Gákte-Quipo e-meeting will offer you a chance to meet artists Barry Ace and Cannupa Hanska Luger. They are invited to discuss how their role as artists participate to highlight indigenous struggles, particularly in North America. This talk is part of a cycle that takes place virtually in the Time to Come Together, the last part of the exhibition "Environmental Injustice - Indigenous People's Alternatives". Just as the artwork Gákte-Quipo ties together the individual stories of indigenous peoples’ struggles to gain control over their lands and territories, these encounters will forge connexions between the artists and the audiences interested in hearing their stories.

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BARRY ACE is a practicing visual artist and currently lives in Ottawa. He is a debendaagzijig (citizen) of M’Chigeeng First Nation, Odawa Mnis (Manitoulin Island), Ontario, Canada. Barry Ace’s work embraces the impact of the digital age and how it exponentially transforms and infuses Anishinaabeg culture (and other global cultures) with new technologies and new ways of communicating. His work attempts to harness and bridge the precipice between historical and contemporary knowledge, art, and power, while maintaining a distinct Anishinaabeg aesthetic connecting generations. Barry Ace has exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally. His work can be found in numerous collections, most notably; National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario); Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Ontario); Canadian Museum of History (Gatineau, Québec); Global Affairs Canada (Ottawa, Ontario); North American Native Museum (Zurich, Switzerland); and Ojibwe Cultural Foundation (M’Chigeeng, Ontario).

CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER is a multidisciplinary artist and an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota). Through monumental installations and social collaboration, Luger activates speculative fiction and communicates stories about 21st Century Indigeneity, combining critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments, and communities he engages. He lectures and produces large-scale projects around the globe and his works are in many public collections. Luger is a recipient of a 2021 United States Artists Fellowship Award for Craft and was named a 2021 GRIST Fixer, he is a 2020 Creative Capital Fellow, a 2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, and the recipient of the Museum of Arts and Design’s 2018 inaugural Burke Prize, among others.

Date de dernière mise à jour de l'événement 24.02.2022
Gákte-Quipo, de Máret Ánne Sara et Cecilia Vicuña, 2017. ©MEG, Johnathan Watts

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