Opening Reception for Joi T. Arcand: ayâtaskisow and The Memory of Trees
FadaDance Troupe, The Weight of Our Feet, film still, featured in the exhibition Memory of Trees. Photo: Shawn Fulton.
About
Join us for an opening celebration for Joi T. Arcand: ayâtaskisow and The Memory of Trees. The evening will include a performance by artist Jaime Black-Morsette titled Inheritance.
- 7:30 PM | Exhibition formalities in the Salon
- 8 PM | Artist performance in The Memory of Trees
- Reception and exhibition viewing to follow
ABOUT THE GATHERING GREAT PLAINS SERIES
This exhibition is part of the Gathering Great Plains series—a partnership and program by MacKenzie Art Gallery and Remai Modern that features exhibitions, thoughtful panel discussions, and opportunities for community engagement. Centred on themes of movement, borders, and migration, the series positions the Great Plains as a gathering force—a witness and participant shaped by the stories it holds. Guided by the impetus to bring to light narratives that have long been overlooked, the series centres the voices of marginalized and racialized communities and offers space for reflection, dialogue, and the possibility of renewed relationships with each other and the land.
Jaime Black-Morsette
Jaime Black-Morsette is a Red River Métis artist, writer and activist, currently living and working on their home territory near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
Black-Morsette’s interdisciplinary art practice includes installation art, photography, immersive film and performance art practices. Their work explores themes of memory, identity, place and resistance in relation to Indigenous/settler histories. Their work situates the body and the land as collaborative co-creators for the development of visual narrative and embodied storytelling.
Founder of The REDress project in 2009, Black-Morsette has been using their art practice as a way to gather community and create action and change around the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls across Turtle Island for over fifteen years. Her most recent publication, entitled REDress: Art, Action and the Power of Presence, is an anthology that brings together the voices of Indigenous women whose work is grounded in making change and bringing justice to those affected by MMIWG2S.