Indigenous Practice
Tanya Lukin Linklater, We wear one another, 2019, performance documentation, courtesy of the artist and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.
How can we enact radical futures that bring out the fullness of our homes and roots while asking challenging, crucial questions about how those homes came to be? In Indigenous Practices, ICI seeks to act as a sounding board for ideas of Indigeneity and futurity across a truly global context. The driving force of this Initiative is Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, which takes the score as form and force toward decolonization. Like ICI itself, Soundings is constantly changing in concert with the communities in our orbit, moving through an ever-expanding set of artworks and experiences that are informed by the places where the exhibition travels. Indigenous Practice is also in perpetual conversation with thought leaders globally. Through our inaugural Indigenous Curatorial Research Fellowship, scholar Jordan Wilson advanced his ongoing research on Indigenous language reclamation and piloted Towards Accountability, an interdisciplinary series of talks among cultural workers about art, institutions, and the responsibilities of curatorial practitioners on Indigenous territories.
