When Veins Meet Like Rivers; ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖅ / okhížata / maadawaan, featuring asinnajaq, Kite & Dayna Danger
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Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art 460 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0E8
asinnajaq, "River Piece," 2020
video still and Illustration
When Veins Meet Like Rivers; ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖅ / okhížata / maadawaan, featuring asinnajaq, Kite & Dayna Danger
Join us on Saturday, December 18, 2021 for Pinnguanipaujait and the closing of When Veins Meet Like Rivers; ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖅ / okhížata / maadawaan!
Pinnguanipaujait (“great big games”) was envisioned and developed by asinnajaq and is presented in collaboration with WAG-Quamajuq.
The games, held in celebration of inuulirvisiunira (asinnajaq’s birthday), will feed your competitive side + sense of humour and include competitions to see who can attach the most clothespins to their face, untie the greatest number of knots, quickly find safety pins in a container of rice, do the best makeup on a friend blindfolded, unwrap a package the fastest and a race to a finish line after nimbly securing a nail to a can with their hips.
The event will take place from 3-5pm in the Skylight Gallery of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Blvd. There will be games for folks of all ages, lots of laughs, food, and prizes!
The closing of When Veins Meet Like Rivers; ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖅ / okhížata / maadawaan, an exhibition featuring asinnajaq, Kite, and Dayna Danger will follow. Snacks, refreshments, and cake will be served in the Skylight Gallery at the WAG from 6-9pm.
When Veins Meet Like Rivers; ᑲᑎᓐᓂᖅ / okhížata / maadawaan will remain open at Plug In ICA until 8pm, guests are welcome to move between the show and the events.
Entry is free and all are welcome to attend Pinnguanipaujait and the closing of the show!
Submit. Resist. Care. Heal.
Sharing and being transparent was the starting point of the work and always offering what felt true. Traditionalists might balk at the lack of formal evidence, but the silence was the language of trust the 4 of us worked in. The ability to reveal, hold, know and create while being in remote orbit. Constant care and consideration.– Allison Yearwood, Executive Director of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
asinnajaq is a visual artist, filmmaker, writer and curator based in Montreal, QC. asinnajaq's practice is grounded in research and collaboration, which includes working with other artists, friends and family. In 2016 she worked with the National Film Board of Canada's archive to source historical and contemporary Inuit films and colonial representations of Inuit in film. The footage she pulled is included in her short film "Three Thousand." The film was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the 2018 Canadian Screen Awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. asinnajaq was a part of the curatorial team for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale and was long listed for the prestigious Sobey Art Award in April 2020.
Dayna Danger is a 2Spirit/Queer, Metis/Saulteaux/Polish visual artist raised in so called Winnipeg, MB. Using photography, sculpture, performance and video, Dayna Danger‘s practice questions the line between empowerment and objectification by claiming space with her larger than life scale work. Danger’s current use of BDSM and beading leather fetish masks explores the complicated dynamics of sexuality, gender, and power in a consensual and feminist manner. Danger is currently based in Tio'tia:ke. Danger holds a MFA in Photography from Concordia University. Danger has exhibited her work in Santa Fe, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Peterborough, North Bay, Vancouver, Edmonton and Banff. Danger currently serves as a board member for the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC/CCA).
Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from Ca lArts in music composition, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University. Kite’s scholarship and practice highlight contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Her performances, compositions, sculptures and sound installations showcase the use of experimentation in new media and digital technologies that touch on issues such as nonhuman and human intelligence, the ethics of extractive technologies, and software design. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fibre sculptures, immersive video and sound installations, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint, Unheard Records. For the inaugural 2019 Toronto Art Biennial, Kite, with Althea Thauberger, produced an installation, Call to Arms, which features audio and video recordings of their rehearsals with Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship(HMCS) York, which also consisted of a live performance with the conch shell sextet, who played the four musical scores composed by Kite. Kite has also published extensively in several journals and magazines, including in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), where the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis, was featured. Currently, she is a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar and a Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures.