Linda Tuhiwai Smith  

Graham Smith, Keynote

Jeannette Armstrong

Chris Creighton-Kelly and France Trepanier Land: Landed

Olivia Whetung spoke of the changing names framing territory. The Colonial attempts to exploit and disappear bodies. Photos of working bodies were depicted in a book entitled Crafts of the Ojibwa. The bodies were not posed but at work and in motion. Olivia was interested in the stories these hands…

Mark Igloliorte  spoke of the importance of observation in painting. Photographs depict a fraction of second, life sliced down to moment, whereas in painting hours, days are poured into their construction. In the time that is required to make a painting, the shifting, moving body results in shifts in perspectives. …

Tania Willard’s Bush Gallery was born out of a desire to create a space that acknowledged diverse bodies and attentions. The logistics in child care is still quite difficult to engage in contemporary art, reflected in design of institutional spaces institutions, for normative, adult bodies.  How these small bodies and…

On her homage to the Nishiyuu walkers, Ayumi Goto has run many roads toward the close to 1600 km that mirrors those who went from northern Quebec to Ottawa to air out important issues affecting indigenous communities. One of these roads was a rural highway outside of Saskatoon — this…

Published on Jul 9, 2013 Organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Canadian Sociological Association, and the Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes at the 2013 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences June 3, 2013 Responding to the lack of diversity in the 2010…

Garry Gottfriedson was such a delightful host for us on his territory while we produced art in residence. Here he gives us a piece on the last day of the residency, a play on ‘cowboy poetry’ and a surge of insight as is Garry’s wont!

Yes, the Reconsidering Reconciliation may be over but the work continues to trail in! Here is a brilliant performance by Adrian Stimson aka Buffalo Boy, all decked out in military gear, in a surprise appearance at the exhibition opening, which doubled as the final night of the residency. “Buffalo Boy…

Over the course of several days toward the end of the Reconsidering Reconciliation arts residency, Gabe Hill took on the task of braiding an entire hillside. This is on the north slope adjacent to the new student residence and conference centre at Thompson Rivers University. It will be interesting to…

Mimi Gellman talks about her time making art, creating, in the horticultural gardens at TRU. The paintings she produces are a direct result of her experience with the land and territory here.

Peter Morin enlists the assistance of Adrian Stimson, Leah Decter, Clement Yeh, Mimi Gellman, and Ayumi Goto to sing to the drums he has made during the residency. While they sang, he read out a Martin Luther King speechto think through questions of oppression, resistance, equality.

Gabe Archie, who has been documenting the recon process, has put together these brilliant montages of artists’ work including studio visits with David Garneau, Cecily Nicholson, Leah Decter, Peter Morin, Clement Yeh (working on Jaimie Isaac images), Gabe Hill, Mimi Gellman and more. Definitely a delightful representation of work underway.

Ayumi has been working on a number of projects while in residence, but the most tactile is her daily run. She plans to continue until she has covered the close to 1600km that the Nishiyuu walkers accomplished from northern Quebec to Ottawa. She is also making one watercolour for every…