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Surviving You, Always

Morgan Quaintance

Bittersweet

Sohrab Hura

I ran from it and was still in it

Darol Olu Kae

"listening for the unsaid"

This program will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Bojana Stancic.

* title from “Venus in Two Acts” by Saidiya Hartman (2008).

* This program is only available to view in Canada

Curated by
Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Morgan Quaintance, Sohrab Hura, Darol Olu Kae, Rina B. Tsou
Date / Time
May 22, 2021
6:00PM – 7:55PM EDT

(ARTISTS)

Morgan Quaintance , Sohrab Hura, Darol Olu Kae
Presented With:

Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.