Emerging Indigenous curators supported through Indigenous Curatorial Collective and Debaser partnership
Anishinaabe-Algonquin land - May 6th, 2024
Announced in early March, Debaser and the Indigenous Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones (ICCA) have partnered to create opportunities for two emerging Indigenous curators to present programming as part of Pique, a multidisciplinary festival series produced by Debaser that takes place seasonally in Ottawa.
Following a national call for submissions, Harley Wegner (Red River Métis) and Eva Grant (Interior Salish) have been selected to curate exhibitions for the Pique summer and fall editions on June 8 and September 28, 2024, respectively. The curators will also present a critical discourse related their curatorial projects, which will be published by the ICCA later this year.
Harley Wegner (they/them) is a Métis Two-Spirt theatre artist and producer based on unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabe territory creating art that embraces Wahkohtowin while exploring queer and trans eroticism, leftist politics, camp, intimacy, and all things strange. Eva Grant (they/them/she/her) is a Francophone, Indigenous-Eurasian artist and programmer based on Vancouver Island. A graduate of Stanford University and a Sundance Lab Fellow, Eva is interested in land-based, time-bending works. Varied in their artistic practices and interests, the projects by Wegner and Grant will both explore Indigenous cultural resilience and decolonized desire through immersive site-responsive interventions. Wegner’s project will use performance, audio/visual media and textile to explore the erotic, Western colonial religion and Indigenous spirituality. Grant’s audio-immersive installation will rework space and time to explore reciprocal relationships with more-than-human kin.
More details will be announced by Debaser approaching the date of each exhibition. Visit thisispique.com or subscribe to Debaser’s newsletter to stay informed on project updates. For more information and resources on the ICCA, please visit icca.art
Press Contacts
Debaser:
Rachel Weldon
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ICCA:
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