Awakening Memory

Awakening Memory was designed through a collaborative process about remembering the role of art within Indigenous communities. It made use of a creative method for Indigenous people to engage with objects that ‘belong’ to them. In response to this process, each artist created new artworks, which were part of the exhibition.

Awakening Memory focused on both customary and contemporary stories to explore the history, agency and value of an art object from Indigenous perspectives. The exhibition also considered the dynamic relationships between historical Indigenous cultural objects and contemporary Indigenous art practices.

Through the process of remembering, reclaiming and reactivating knowledge, memory-stories were awakened about how we–all of us here–inhabit this land.

Awakening Memory was presented at Open Space in Victoria BC from March 24 to April 29, 2017.
Please see review in Canadian Art on June 20, 2017: https://canadianart.ca/reviews/awakening-memory/