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Quinn / Bawaadan / Kirouac

THE RE/MIRROR EXPERIMENTS

The mirror is what remains after data memory is lost. The process of remirroring establishes new connections to official and unofficial copies of memories: pure data, photographs, stories handed down, the associations that smells can sometimes awaken.

With the Re/Mirror Experiments, Harbour Collective sought proposals from media artists working in digital art, moving image or audio forms to experiment with the notion of remirroring in form or content, or both. Experimentations took all forms, including technical experiments or experimentations with storytelling approaches.

The collective met and reviewed submissions from across Turtle Island and selected three artists, Bawaadan Collective, Quinn Hopkins and Christine Kirouac. The works were completed and submitted for the screening, along with recorded artist talks with the Bawaadan Collective, Christine Kirouac and Quinn Hopkins.

Harbour Collective would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, Creating, Knowing and Sharing.

QUINN

I am an artist without boundaries. I currently live on the traditional lands of the Mississauga of the Credit and the Haudenosaunee People. I will paint, draw, create, and document almost anything. I am also a student at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) in the Drawing and Painting program working on a Bachelor of Fine Arts and I am involved with my local public gallery, Oakville Galleries, as a board member.

As a young Métis, I did not understand what it meant to be indigenous until much later in life. As I grew, I became more aware of the cultural genocide of Indigenous people in North America and that I was not alone in the absence of traditional knowledge. I believe it is important to relearn this knowledge and culture. I make art to honor my ancestors and restore culture in my generation of my family.

Project Details

Artist: Quinn

Type: HTML Document (Web Based Exhibition)

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BAWAADAN

Formalized in the spring of 2019, we worked co-operatively together to create the short film Midland Motel Room 77'. Utilizing close friend and familial ties, we quickly began to self-produce our own Indigenous contemporary content. Each member brings unique skills and talents and has independently had personal successes in the music, visual arts, film, media arts, fashion, craft and theatre arts fields. Additionally, several members have experience with academic and administrative FOCI.

We envision a group of like-minded Indigenous artisans and accomplices who are interested in continually developing our collaborative approaches to modern artistic, storytelling and film production processes. Our non-hierarchical Collective reflects the traditional “flat” structures of our communities’ past. It is our goal to constantly adjust our organizational structures and modes of storytelling to create inclusive, mindful spaces, and better represent Indigenous peoples in the mainstream.

Yuma Hester

Yuma Hester is the creative director of Bawaadan Collective. Half Anishinaabe, half cree, Hester has spent the past 10 years working in community development. He specializes in working with children and youth, Indigenous communities, and event/project management. He has a passion for photography, storytelling, music scoring and production.

Rachael Bridge

Rachael Bridge is a script writer and editor. Bridge holds an LLB Law degree and a postgrad in journalism. She has continued her studies in creative writing at University of Toronto and publishing with Ryerson University. Writing for a number of publications internationally, Rachael has spent the last decade working across a series of mediums. From press releases and interviews to fiction and features she supports telling stories visually and through the written word. She has a passion for knitting and fashion design.

Ashley Teyonehrahtawénrye Maracle

Ashley Teyonehrahtawénrye Maracle is a creative director of Mohawk, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and Irish American descent. Maracle has spent the past decade working in the field of Indigenous post-secondary education, seeking to improve the experience for Indigenous learners and help pave the path for the next generation of leaders and warriors. Ashley has worked primarily through advisory and administrative roles, specializing in advocating for Indigenous priority areas - education and language revitalization efforts primarily. Ashley has honed her skills in relationship development, collective-based decision making, and project/event management. Ashley's interests are in Haudenosaunee knowledges, Indigenous governance, storytelling, languages revitalization, sustainable practices, and the creative arts. Alongside fellow member Somer Johnston, Ashley has co-developed Indigi.Arts, where they blend contemporary and traditional styles to create unique Indigenous-made, wearable art, utilizing traditional, found and repurposed materials.

Christine Kirouac

Christine Kirouac is a Winnipeg-based Metis artist/writer whose interdisciplinary projects are a negotiation for (dis)placement, (non)acceptance and belonging. She fearlessly makes work through a lens of personal intimacy and experience, she draws audiences in using humor, the familiar and the unceremonious. She has participated in multiple residencies at the Banff Centre, Vermont Studio Centre and received grants from Winnipeg & Manitoba Arts Councils, Canada Council for the Arts, National Film Board and National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation.

Select National and International group exhibitions and film/video screenings include Winnipeg Art Gallery, Museum London ON, Lisbon International Film Festival Portugal, Belfast NI Billboard Project NI, Toronto Ireland Park Foundation public video project, 4th Cairo International Video Festival Egypt, Global House Gwang Ju South Korea, Heritage International Conference and Film Program; Berlin, Chicago Underground Film Festival USA, Presénce Autochtone: First Peoples’ Festival, Montréal, QC , Exposition L’ Art Video et Multimedia Marseille France, Asheville Art Museum NC USA New Media Wing inaugural exhibition.

In 2019 Kirouac debuted her first major American museum three part solo show The Same Leaving at the South-Eastern Center for Contemporary Art SECCA in NC USA, and premiered the solo drawing series After Winter, Before Spring at La Maison Des Artistes Visuels Francophones Winnipeg 2018. Currently Kirouac is continuing to materialize The Recipe Project, and a recent Canada Council Explore & Create Grant will fund the first part of the large drawing project titled Four Drawings.

Digital Image

mother peeling apples, 2008

Video Still Image

Sentry, 2008, TRT - 7:00 min. https://christinekirouac.com/portfolio/sentry/

Video Still Image

Hybred, 2007 https://christinekirouac.com/portfolio/hybred/