gijiit: Digital Anti-Matter Anti-Manifesto

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gijiit, "Digital Anti-Matter Anti-Manifesto," 2021

We are pleased to announce that for the next six months, aceartinc. will be hosting a programming intervention from the curatorial collective, gijiit. This intervention, Digital Anti-Matter Anti-Manifesto, consists of a series of online events that features digital artwork, performances, workshops, and talks by Indigenous artists from across Turtle Island.

Digital Anti-Matter Anti-Manifesto

We strive to consider the varying forms of matter, energy, and particles that exist around us. While Western notions of science-based knowledge hold the sole perspective of Truth, Indigenous cosmologies acknowledge the existence of multiple truths and realities that create diverse tapestries of life. Anti-matter works through the ways in which decolonial thinkers and makers deny colonial conceptions of Truths, ordering of space and temporality. Through the lens of anti-matter, we aim to carve out a space for anti-colonial matter: as sound, particles, energy, and anti-colonial knowledge transmission.

Anti-manifesto derives from queer theory and the idea that there is no future for the queer and all those who aren’t afforded a potentiality of life on Man’s Earth. All that which is queer should resist, at all costs, a neoliberal fascination with the future and the manifesto, and prefer instead to lurk in the margins, the in-between spaces, of intelligibility and definition.

This programming will honour the types of matter and knowledge transference that takes place through digital spaces.

gijiit is a curatorial collective consisting of members Lindsay Nixon and Adrienne Huard, based in Tkaronto and Miiskwaagamiwiziibiing. The collective concentrates on community-engaged Indigenous art dealing with themes of gender, sex, and sexuality.

Please see https://digitalantimatterantimanifesto.ca/ to view the full program.