Press Release: Spring/Summer Exhibitions 2019 - Among All These Tundras & CHANNEL 51: IGLOOLIK
Esker Foundation is proud to present two exhibitions that feature artists and filmmakers from the polar north.
Among All These Tundras
Artists: asinnajaq, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Carola Grahn, Marja Helander, Kablusiak, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Barry Pottle, Inuuteq Storch, Couzyn van Heuvelen, and Allison Akootchook Warden. Curated by: Heather Igloliorte, Amy Prouty, and Charissa von Harringa Produced and circulated by: the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery / Concordia University Among All These Tundras, a title taken from the poem ‘My Home is in My Heart’ by famed Sámi writer Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, features contemporary art by Indigenous artists from around the circumpolar world. Together, their works politically and poetically express current Arctic concerns towards land, language, sovereignty, and resurgence. (high res images below) Opening reception: Friday 31 May, 6-10pm, all welcome Performance beginning at 7:30pm: siku/siku by Allison Akootchook Warden 1 June - 30 August, 2019CHANNEL 51: IGLOOLIK - Celebrating 30 Years of Inuit Video Art
Curated by: asinnajaq A project of Isuma in partnership with Vtape, Toronto. CHANNEL 51: IGLOOLIK, a project of Isuma in partnership with Vtape, Toronto, is the first large-scale tour of Igloolik Inuit video art from the Isuma and Arnait Women’s Video Collective. It celebrates a young cinematic tradition that has its own distinct voice and worldview, its own language, culture and traditions, history and stories, philosophy of education and knowledge sharing, relationship to land, conception of gender and social structures, relationship to space and time, and vision for the future. (high res images below) Opening reception: Friday 31 May, 6-10pm, all welcome 1 June - 30 August, 2019PDFs
Web Resolution Images
Image: Marja Helander, 'Dolastallat (To have a campfire),' 2016. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Asinnajaq, 'Rock Piece (Ahuriri edition),' 2018. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Detail. Inuuteq Storch, 'Untitled,' 2010-2015, from de series 'At Home We Belong.' Digital inkjet prints on archival paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Inuuteq Storch, Untitled, 2010-2015, from de series At Home We Belong. Digital inkjet print on archival paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Williamson Bathory Laakkuluk, Timiga Nunalu Sikulu (My Body, the Land and the ice), 2016. Video by Jamie Griffiths, music by Chris Coleman, featuring vocals by Celina Kalluk. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Williamson Bathory Laakkuluk, Timiga Nunalu Sikulu (My Body, the Land and the ice), 2016. Video by Jamie Griffiths, music by Chris Coleman, featuring vocals by Celina Kalluk. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Joar Nango, 'Hand-knitted wool sweaters in ten different shades of colour,' 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Kablusiak
Cigarettes and Lighter, 2017, from the series Uyarak/Stone. Soapstone and Tung oil. Courtesy of the artist and the Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. Photo: Brittany Lucas
Carola Grahn
'Look Who’s Talking,' 2016
Video. Installation View. Courtesy of the artist
Kelliher-Combs Sonya
'Secret Portraits,' 2018. Ink, pencil, beeswax on paper. Courtesy of the artist
Couzyn van Heuvelen
'Qamutiik,' 2014. Industrial found wooden pallets. Courtesy of the artist
Taqralik Partridge,
'Tusarsauvungaa,' 2018
Series of NINE elements
Cotton, polyester, wool, silk, glass beads, metal beads, Canadian sealskin, reindeer leather, thermal emergency blanket, Pixee lures, plastic tarp, Canadian coins, tamarack tree cones, dental floss, artificial sinew, goose feather and river grass.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
Installation view of the exhibition 'Among All These Tundras.' Photo by: John Dean.
