Artist Talk by Wanda Nanibush

Making Intimacy Sovereign and Sovereignty Intimate
An Artist Talk by Wanda Nanibush
December 3, 2020 at 6:00 pm CT
Event recording

Gallery 1C03 is pleased to invite you to an artist talk by the prolific writer and curator Wanda Nanibush on Thursday, December 3 at 6pm CT. Her talk entitled, Making Intimacy Sovereign and Sovereignty Intimate, takes a personal journey through the nexus of Sovereign/Intimacy, delving into her art practice and filmmaking. Nanibush will begin the evening with a screening of her short video Arrivals and Departures.

This event is presented as part of Sovereign Intimacies in partnership with Gallery 1C03, with support from Video Pool Media Arts Centre.

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation. Currently Nanibush is the inaugural curator of Indigenous art and co-head of the Indigenous + Canadian Art department at Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Her current AGO exhibition, Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental is touring internationally as well as two independent projects Nanabozho’s sisters (Dalhousie) and Sovereign Acts (JMB). Nanibush has a Masters of Visual Studies from University of Toronto where she has taught graduate courses. On top of many catalogue essays Nanibush has published widely on Indigenous art, politics, history and feminism and sexuality.


Sovereign Intimacies is a group exhibition co-curated by Nasrin Himada and Jennifer Smith, in partnership with Gallery 1C03, with support from Video Pool Media Arts Centre. The exhibition takes place at Plug In ICA from September 26 – December 20, 2020, with extensive programming that consists of online talks, workshops, screenings, and poetry readings. Sovereign Intimacies explores themes of cultural and community exchange between Indigenous artists and artists from the diaspora, more specifically artists who are First Nations, Inuit and Métis collaborating with artists living in what is currently called Canada who came to this land and are not part of the settler/colonial history of the country. The group show consists of pairings of artists, as well as individuals, whose work is based on process and relationship building, and for those whose work is invested in active conceptualization around topics of friendship and intimacy, who are working to build collective vision of a sovereign future. Due to current health restrictions, the exhibition at Plug In ICA is presently closed. We will announce when it is has re-opened.

Acknowledgments:
Gallery 1C03, Plug In ICA and Video Pool Media Arts Centre are on Treaty 1 Territory. We are located on the territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. 

Gallery 1C03 acknowledges financial assistance for Sovereign Intimacies from The University of Winnipeg and the Manitoba Arts Council.

For more information, contact:

Jennifer Gibson, Director/Curator, Gallery 1C03