Saturday October 3 and Sunday October 4, 10-4 PM
a refugium of infinite stories is a multimedia installation activating plant-processed films and archival media to weave together Anishinaabe and Black stories on the Saugeen Ojibway Nation Territory and extending beyond. In the face of colonialism and racial segregation which imposed geographic and social isolation, Anishinaabe and Black Canadians found ways not only to survive but flourish through enduring relationships with the land and sometimes with each other. Drawing on the trickster figures from these distinct cultures, themselves diverse, the installation unfolds in three chapters to trace the longstanding connections between communities whose histories are deeply connected to the land and water.
Debbie Ebanks’ NansiRoachy is media sculpture and archives embodying Anansi, the Akan trickster and shapeshifter, and Auntie Roachy, the Jamaican character brought to life by Miss Lou, a revered Jamaican storyteller. As the Keeper of All Narratives, Anansi carries stories from western Africa to Jamaica and Canada, collecting new stories and transforming old ones. NansiRoachy shares a mulimedia experience of the Jamaican diaspora on Annishinaabe, Haudonshonee and Huron-Wendat territories, in which Creemore is entangled in the web of stories.
Adrian Kahgee’s work is a mixed media exploration of storytelling as it relates to her Afro-Anishnaabe being, rooted in the land and histories of her community and traditional territory of Saugeen Ojibway Nation. Drawing on cultural materials used in oral traditions, such as birch bark and beads, Adrian weaves in digitized 16mm film through beaded pixelations on LED matrixes. This work is an artistic expression of when wiigwaasaatigoog (birch trees) spill the tea.
This show is generously sponsored by Dalton and Associates
