Marjie Crop Eared Wolf: Iitsi’poyi

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Marjie Crop Eared Wolf, "Iitsi’poyi (detail)," 2019

Courtesy of the artist.

Artist Talk: Friday 8 November, 6:30-7:30pm

In conjunction with the exhibition of her work in the Project Space, Marjie Crop Eared Wolf will discuss Iitsi’poyi and her practice as a whole.

Iitsi’poyi documents Marjie Crop Eared Wolf’s ongoing endeavours to learn Blackfoot. The installation combines densely composed largescale drawings comprised of thousands of Blackfoot words transcribed from the Blackfoot Dictionary with a sound and video work featuring Crop Eared Wolf reciting Blackfoot words and phrases from an audio tape made by her mother. Iitsi’poyi layers references to oral and textual ways of learning and knowing, the intergenerational transmission and revitalization of language, and the mobilization of technologies such as apps for language preservation.