Curator's talk by Wanda Nanibush

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe curator, image and word warrior, and community organizer. Currently she is the inaugural curator of Canadian & Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Wanda is also the curator of the exhibition Sovereign Acts, currently at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG).  The show features the work of artists Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, Dayna Danger, James Luna, Shelley Niro, Adrian Stimson, and Jeff Thomas.

"Drawing on the depiction of the imaginary Indian (the ahistorical, pre-contact 'primitivism' in popular and mass culture) they recover and construct new ways of performing the complexity of Indigenous cultures for a contemporary art audience. Their work returns to the multi-leveled history of ‘Performing Indian’ to recuperate the erased and objectified performer as an ancestor, an artist, and an Indigenous subject."