Archives of Resistance: NORTHERN MIGRATION
2022-10-27 - 2023-04-01
Archives of Resistance: NORTHERN MIGRATION
http://www.archivesofresistance.com/
Ngoymalayiñ exhibition by the Catrileo+Carrión Community: January 26 – March 8, 2023
Artist talk with Catrileo Carrion Community: February 17 at 6pm ET
The Family Album exhibition by Archivo de la Memoria Trans / Archive of Trans Memory: December 8, 2022 to January 11, 2023
Artist talk with Archivo de la Memoria Trans / Archive of Trans Memory: December 8, 2022 at 6pm ET
Brimming exhibition by Jennifer Dysart: October 27 to December 7, 2022
Artist talk with Jennifer Dysart: November 3, 2022 at 7pm ET
Archives of Resistance: NORTHERN MIGRATION is an online exhibition that brings together a unique mix of collaborators composed of artists, designers, archivists, and educators. Together, they draw parallels between narratives of resistance across the Americas to celebrate those who are often forgotten or dismissed in colonized lands.
This project includes four online exhibitions, artist talks and workshops, which will be released one by one between October 2022 and March 2023.
The first exhibition showcases the work of Jennifer Dysart (archive researcher/artist/filmmaker). Jennifer’s films often include official and/or familiar archives to question the process of selection and elimination of archival materials in determining the national narrative in Canada. Her latest film Brimming (2022) will be on view online from October 27 to December 7, 2022. She will also discuss her work in an artist talk online on November 3, 2022 at 7pm ET.
Please register here for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/artist-talk-with-jennifer-dysart-archives-of-resistance-exhibition-1-tickets-425412408967
The second exhibition from this series is the Family Album, showcasing the collection of photographs and narratives by Archivo de la Memoria Trans / Archive of Trans Memory (ATM) from Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Archive contains a collection of more than 15,000 documents including familiar photographs, letters, newspaper articles, ID cards, and more.
This exhibition will be on view at http://archivesofresistance.com/atm/familyalbum.htm from December 8, 2022, to January 11, 2023. Join us for a talk by the collective on December 9, 2022, at 6 pm. They will present the history of their community and their archives with surviving members of their Trans community illustrating their hardship and resistance.
Please register for free on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/artist-talk-archivo-de-la-memoria-trans-archive-of-trans-memory-aor2-tickets-474168750497
The third exhibition of this project titled Ngoymalayiñ by the Catrileo+Carrión Community (CCC). Ngoymalayiñ is a word in the Mapuche language of Mapuzugun which translates to “We do not forget.” This phrase responds to the perseverance of Indigenous communities in seeking justice despite the continued violence and denial of their rights by the Chilean government. This exhibition includes a series of nine short videos combining archives in mainstream media, video performances enacted in historically relevant sites, and audio bytes by members of the community. By experimenting with diverse visual strategies on video, the community narrates the nuance of Indigenous experiences as Two-Spirited artists in search of self-determination
Join us for a performative artist talk by the collective on February 17, 2023, at 6pm.
Please register here for this free online event: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/artist-talk-with-catrileocarrion-community-archives-of-resistance-tickets-523624433777
Stay tuned for upcoming programs in the Archive of Resistance series.
ARTISTS
Jennifer Dysart is an archive enthusiast with a deep love of found footage and experimental filmmaking. Her film projects interrupt the colonial power of archives and represent a growing body of work that prioritizes a return home of archival materials to Indigenous communities. She was an Artist-In-Residence for Archive/Counter-Archive at Library and Archives Canada (2019) and showed Revisiting Keewatin (Biophilia Edit) as a large-scale installation projected on the outside of the Archives of Ontario building through the Art Gallery of York University for Nuit Blanche 2022. Her films Caribou in the Archive (2019), Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood (2014) and Moss Origins (2011) have screened around the world. She was born in Alberta, raised in BC, currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and has Cree roots on her Dad's side from South Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Canada. In 2014, Jennifer won the MFA thesis prize at York for her graduate work which includes Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood.
Catrileo+Carrión Community (Wallmapu/Chile – Kumeyaay Land/San Diego, CA):
We are a two-spirit Mapuche (epupillan) community that develops research-creation projects that are intimately linked to specific territories and communities. We have been working since 2015 from Wallmapu/Chile and are now located both in California/Kumayaay land and South America. This hemispheric experience gives us a privileged point of view to see social change, land disputes, and colonization from a broad perspective. We use video, archives, writing, and weaving as practices that are intertwined with our own life. As a two-spirit non-reproductive community we use our vital energy to connect with others (human and non-human) to share reflections and concerns. We use our biographies and positionalities to depict Indigenous life as an ever-changing, deeply rooted, and critical practice, but also a transformative and creative force. We engage in a practice of occupation and re-structuring of the surface of the video/projection. We understand these surfaces as interfaces for decolonization, territorial imagination, and re-connection with each other. We believe in a future where a queer BIPOC utopia is possible, and we are rehearsing this idea in our everyday artistic and political practice.
The Archive of Trans Memory (AMT) protects, builds and vindicates Trans memory in Argentina. Trans women activists, María Belén Correa and Claudia Pía Baudracco envisioned how they could bring together their fellow survivors and subsequently their memories and images. In 2012, Pía passed away just months before the Gender Identity Law became a reality in Argentina. While in exile, María Belén founded the AMT where she met with her fellow survivors who lived in different parts of the world. In 2014, collaborator and visual artist Cecilia Estalles began the archiving process to compile, preserve, and protect the memories of the Trans community in Argentina.
The Archive contains a collection of more than 15,000 documents. This is a rich collection that includes photographs, film, audio bytes, journals, and official documents such as Identification cards, passports, letters, notes, police files, and magazine articles. Currently, its working team includes María Belén Correa, Cecilia Estalles, Carmen Ibarra, Cecilia Saurí, Magalí Muñiz, Carola Figueredo, Teté Vega, Luis Juárez, Julieta Gonzalez, Sonia Beatriz Torrese, Carolina Nastri, Guade Bongiovanni, Marina Cisneros, Katiana Villagra, Paola Guerrero.
CURATOR
soJin Chun is a Toronto-based curator/educator/artist that explores the alternative dialogues that emerge in-between cultures and disciplines. With a focus on connecting with youth, community members, and artists, her work unpacks identities and narratives that exist outside of dominant representations. soJin's diverse art practice has been informed by her personal experience living in the Korean diaspora in Bolivia and Canada. She aims to create spaces to present contemporary art that is socially engaged and relevant to everyday communities. Collaboration is an essential part of her process as she has worked extensively with under-represented communities in Canada and South America. Through International artist residencies, soJin has developed a collaborative art practice working with local communities to resist stereotypes, gentrification and displacement. Chun has participated in international film festivals such as the Oberhausen International Film Festival (2020). She has exhibited Internationally in DIY art spaces, galleries and museums. soJin’s video works are represented by GIV (Montreal), CFMDC (Toronto) and Vtape (Toronto). Chun has a B.A. in Applied Arts from Ryerson University and a Masters in Communications and Culture from Ryerson/York Universities.
PARTNERS
Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Archives of Resistance: NORTHERN MIGRATION is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Image: Brimming (2022), Jennifer Dysart
For questions or accessibility requests, please contact Lodoe Laura, lodoe@cfmdc.org.