#callresponse

October 28 – December 10, 2016
Book/Publication Launch, Exhibition, Performance Art

About the Program

CALL: To support the work of Indigenous North American women and artists through local art commissions that incite dialogue and catalyze action between individuals, communities, territories, and institutions. To stand together across sovereign territories as accomplices in awakened solidarity with all our relations both human and non.

RESPONSE: To ground art in responsible action, value lived experience, and demonstrate ongoing commitment to accountability and community building. To respond to re/concilliation as a present day negotiation and reconstruction of communities in the aftermath of colonial trauma.

Strategically centering Indigenous women as vital presences across multiple platforms, #callresponse is a multifaceted project that includes a website, social media platform, touring exhibition, and catalogue. Five site-specific art commissions took place across Canada and into the United States throughout 2016 in dialogue with various publics. The exhibition included selected representations of each project. Each artist has invited a guest to respond to their work and these contributions will also be included in the exhibition.

October 28, 2016: Live performances
Maria Hupfield, IV Castellanos and Esther Neff at ECUAD's Motion Capture Studio
Ursula Johnson with Charlene Aleck, Audrey Siegl, and Cease Wyss in the community park behind grunt gallery
Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory and Tanya Tagaq at Native Education College

Curator

Tania Willard, Tarah Hogue, Maria Hupfield

Artist

Tania Willard, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Christi Belcourt, Maria Hupfield, Ursula Johnson, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Isaac Murdoch, Esther Neff, IV Castellanos, Marcia Crosby, Tanya Tagaq, Cassandra Smith

Identifier

2016.1028 #CA

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

Emily Carr University of Art and Design
1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6H 3R9
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

Native Education College
285 E. 5th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1H2
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

In copyright. For uses beyond Fair Dealing, research requests, corrections, takedown requests, or other inquiries, please contact grunt gallery: archives@grunt.ca