Krista Arias: The Earth Is My Elder

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Krista Arias, "Eating our ancestors," 2020

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Krista Arias: The Earth Is My Elder

Curated by Toby Lawrence

Krista will be offering a live reading from her publication Xingona Girl Smoke on May 18th over zoom. Copies of the publication will be available for purchase through the Open Space online store in limited numbers.

The Earth is my Elder is centered around the film, poetry and installation-based work of artist, poet and earth alchemist Krista Arias. Her work explores the complexities of reconnecting, as a woman and mother, to ancestral homelands, while living as an uninvited guest in Indigenous territories in the USA and Canada. As a member of the Xicana diaspora, Arias' direct connection to Indigenous land, language and culture has been broken over generations of migration arising as necessity from colonial structures.

She explains: "My greatest resource in cultural recovery and transmission as a mother, of finding belonging even in the liminal space of home-not-home without traditional Eldership, has been my own body-as-earth connection and awakening."

In Relation Podcast

In Relation is a limited series podcast that weaves together conversations around art, hospitality and guest-host relations happening within Open Space artist-run-centre and amongst its contributors, communities and beyond. Guests include Jinny Yu, Audie Murray, and Kerri Flannigan in conversation with Alexis Hogan, Oren Levine, Estraven Lupino-Smith, and Megan Quigley. 

Beginning again on April 13, the series will air on Tuesdays throughout The Earth is my Elder exhibition and will be available online at https://anchor.fm/inrelation.

Hosted by Toby Lawrence and programmed as part of In Relation: Engaging Curatorial Hospitality. 

Support generously provided by the Victoria Foundation Community Grant.