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#CALLRESPONSE

It’s Never A Good Idea / Mohkinstsis Kikskanisto’p

Publication Launch March 9 @2:00pm

at TRUCK Contemporary Art

Stride Gallery and TRUCK Contemporary Art are pleased to launch a publication by Alyssa Duck Chief in concert with #callresponse on March 9, 2019, 2:00pm at TRUCK Contemporary Art, 2009 10 Ave SW Calgary.

This publication has been created in conjunction with #callresponse, an exhibition co-presented by Stride Gallery and TRUCK. #callresponseis an effort to support the work of indigenous women and catalyze dialogue on the topic of reconciliation with indigenous peoples across Turtle Island. A touring exhibition, #callresponseopened at grunt gallery in 2016, and the project continues to evolve and engage each location to which it travels with specific programming. Marking the final iteration of the project, #callresponsesupports the partner galleries’ ongoing work with youth from the Tsuut'ina Nation as well as Siksika Nation artist Alyssa Duck Chief to create work in dialogue with the exhibition. Dubbed #calgaryresponse,this programming engages in intergenerational forms of mentorship to empower the voices of youth and emerging artists.

Alyssa Duck Chief’s publication encircles narratives connected to the Treaty Seven signing of 1877. These narratives are extracted from both historical sources as well as the Artists direct experiences. The pages of the publication are comprised of personal and archival images of the Artists family, paired with found text to inscribe the stories of the peoples most affected by the colonial imperative of the Canadian government.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 19, 2019 at Stride Gallery (7:00–9:00 PM) and TRUCK Contemporary Art (9:00–11:00 PM).

Join #callresponse co-organizers, Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfield, and Tania Willard, for opening remarks at 7:30 PM at Stride Gallery.

Stride Gallery and TRUCK Contemporary Art presents #callresponse, an artistic and curatorial collaboration co-organized by Tarah Hogue along with project artists Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard.

CALL To support the work of Indigenous women from across Turtle Island through art that drives dialogue and mobilizes action on the topic of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. To stand together across sovereign territories as accomplices in awakened solidarity with all our relations both human and non.

RESPONSE To ground art in accountability, value lived experience and build upon systems of support. To enact strategies of resurgence, resilience and refusal against the ongoing multiple articulations of power and structural colonial violence of nation states.

Organized by: Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfield, and Tania WillardArtists: Christi Belcourt, IV Castellanos, Marcia Crosby, Maria Hupfield, Ursula Johnson, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Isaac Murdoch, Esther Neff, Tanya Tagaq, Tania Willard and Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory

Stride Gallery and TRUCK Contemporary Art present #callresponse, an artistic and curatorial collaboration led by Indigenous women. The project began with a series of commissions by five artists that took place across diverse locations from Vancouver to Halifax, Iqaluit to New York. Each artist invited respondents to consider her work, and contributions from the initial commissions as well as the responses are included in the exhibition.

A touring exhibition, #callresponse opened at grunt gallery in 2016, and the project continues to evolve and engage each location to which it travels with specific programming. Marking the final iteration of the project, #callresponse will support the partner galleries’ ongoing work with youth from the Tsuut'ina First Nation as well as Siksika artist Alyssa Duck Chief to create work in dialogue with the exhibition. Dubbed #calgaryresponse, this programming engages in intergenerational forms of mentorship to empower the voices of youth.

#callresponse promotes discussion and action around Indigenous cultural revitalization, land-based knowledge, and cross-cultural solidarity. Shining a light on work that is both urgent and long-term, #callresponse strategically centers Indigenous women across multiple platforms, moving between specificity of Indigenous nations, site, online space, and the gallery. An online platform using the hashtag #callresponse on social media provides further opportunities for networked exchanges.

#callresponse is informed by discussions about the importance of Indigenous feminisms in grounding our lives and work in reciprocal relations, while critiquing and refusing the intersections of colonialism and patriarchy. The project reorients the vital presence of Indigenous women—their work and their embodied experiences—as central, as defining, and as pre-existing current appeals for a reconcilable future.

#callresponse is a production of grunt gallery and is funded by the {Re}conciliation Initiative, a partnership between the Canada Council for the Arts, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, and The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada. The exhibition tour is supported by The British Columbia Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.