Critical Conversations 2021: Skawennati: Mohawks in Jetpacks
Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman and as a cyberpunk avatar
CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS 2021
Presented by the University of Saskatchewan Art Galleries and Collections
Mohawks in Jetpacks
Speaker: Skawennati
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021
Time: 1 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Online via Webex
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About this talk
Skawennati will present some of her art projects from this millenium, in which she imagines Indigenous people in the future.
Speaker's bio
Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her work has been widely presented in both group exhibitions and solo shows and is included in public and private collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. She was honoured to receive the 2019 Salt Spring National Art Prize Jurors’ Choice Award, a 2020 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and a Visiting Artist Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library. She’s represented by ELLEPHANT.
Born in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, Skawennati holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she resides. She is co-director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a research-creation network. Their projects include the Skins workshops on Aboriginal storytelling and digital media as well as the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF).