digital/experimental media

wenbik series (2020-2023)
Digital film vignettes and Multimedia installation

wenbik is a series of experimental vignettes created as language-of-the-land vignettes intended for installation work. In 2023, the MoCA Busan commissioned a large-scale 3-channel multimedia installation to be created from film series of research-creation documentation for my PhD project titled “ni waamjigaadeg debwewin.” The work is currently on exhibition as part of “Singing Mother Earth” (Sept 23, 2023 – Feb 18, 2024), curated by Hanna Park.

Filmed on Nipissing First Nation (April 2020 – June 2020).

See wenbik blog for cloud portal exhibition.

Missing Home series (2023)
Altered digital photography

these aren’t the sunsets I’m used to II (2023)

these aren’t the sunsets I’m used to (2023)

noondam na? (do you hear?) (2019)
audio & sculptural installation
iPod, hand-drum frame, fabric and embroidery thread

Across the world, Indigenous Nations fight for their land, their waters, their sovereignty.  Noondam na invites you to listen to the layered voices of five Nations gathered in protest…and song. From New Zealand to Standing Rock, Brazil to Hawaii – though separated by oceans and thousands of miles, their hearts drum in unison with each other, and with the land. They fight for their rights, the rights of the land, and, in doing so, our collective futures in these uncertain times of climate crisis. #LANDBACK

noodam na? (do you hear?) – detail

Created for waabandiwag, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON in 2019. Curated by Natalie King. Grateful thanks to Natalie for having faith in my ability to get this done on time and for the beauty of their words in contextualizing what I could not within an artist statement. Please read the exhibition essay here: “waabandiwag”, exhibition essay by curator Natalie King, Xpace Cultural Centre (2019).

See also: BLOG POST in parallel – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery 

Experimental video created for OCAD University’s Global Experience Project – Isaac Julien (2017)
IAMD MFA Program (intended for 4-channel installation)
Recorded on the shores of Nbisiing – Nipissing First Nation
Performed by Kaiden Fontaine

Drumming to Nbisiing (2017) [2:55 min]