As part of their research residency (fall/winter 2023)
October 26, 2024 – 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
After completing their research and writing residency with an unpublished essay, script, and costume illustrations, writer and artist Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush makes a long-awaited return to the recording booth with cherished colleagues and collaborators to present the second installation in their ongoing series: The Schmurr Schmurr Power Hour.
This intimate event invites attendees in to a live recording experience of the Schmurr Schmurr Power Hour radio program where they will learn about the ups -and -downs of Indigeneity and Indigenous identity from show host IndianRubberMan (Robert Polson), special guest Chief Runningmouth (Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush), and the cast of characters who phone in to the program: Simon “Corbeau Rouge” Mikinak McGee (Sylvain Rivard) and Princess Smoke-A-Hontas (Skawennati). The recording session will be followed by a Q&A with Dumoulin-Bush as well as an exposition of supporting work and highlights chosen from Artexte’s collection that formed the basis of the project.
Come Schmurr schmurr with us on October 26th from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm!
Schedule of the event:
– 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm: live recording of the Schmurr Schmurr Power Hour
– 2:45 pm to 3:00 pm: break
– 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm: discussion with Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush
– 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm: snacks by Chef Swaneige and warm beverages
About the participants:
Katsitsanoron (Kat) Dumoulin-Bush is Onkwehonwe/French Canadian from Oshahrhè:’on (Chateauguay), Quebec. They received their BA in Linguistics from Concordia University in 2017, and continue to work as an educator in Indigenous communities across Quebec, teaching mathematics, science, music, special education, and kindergarten in Tasiujaq, Eastmain and Kahnawake. They have also worked in event planning and radio as a DJ and music journalist. Katsitsanoron likes to think of themselves as a “non-disciplinary” artist; combining every medium at their disposal, and using learning itself as a medium to make freeform works that pose and respond to questions about sexual, racial, and interpersonal identity. Passionate about arts and arts management, they have frequently collaborated with daphne arts centre, the maison de la culture Rosemont-la-Petite-Patrie, and more recently with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
Skawennati investigates history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman and as a cyberpunk avatar. Her artistic practice questions our relationships with technology and highlights Indigenous people in the future. Her machinimas and machinimagraphs (movies and still images made in virtual environments), textiles and sculpture have been presented internationally and collected by the National Gallery of Canada, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Thoma Foundation, among others. Recipient of a 2022 Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions Grant and an Honorary Doctorate from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, she is also a founding board member of daphne, Montréal’s first Indigenous artist-run centre. She co-founded and co-directs Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), a research-creation network based at Concordia University, where she received her BFA. Originally from Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, Skawennati resides in Montréal. She is represented by ELLEPHANT.
Robert Nicholas Polson is an Anishinaabe (Algonquin) emerging artist and resident of Long Point First Nation (Winneway) in the Abitibi-Temiskaming region of Quebec. His artistic practice, when he is not traveling or volunteering abroad, is inspired by the culture of his people, travels and the works of Indigenous artists such as Norval Morrisseau and Frank Polson. He has worked in and with Indigenous communities in both Winneway and Montreal. Before hitting double digits, he won a national art contest for fire prevention at the tender age of 9 in 1999. Between 2015 and 2017, Polson also frequently collaborated on and inspired episodes of Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush’s university radio show, The Machine Stops, which are now lost media. Polson travels between Montreal and Winneway frequently, and worked in Prague, Czech Republic, between 2015 and 2016. He specializes in the visual art of drawing in which he is self-taught.
Sylvain Rivard, aka Vainvard, is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal with a certificate in multidisciplinary studies and a microprogram in mass literature from UQAM. He has written and illustrated several children’s books and has published essays, ethnographic works and an illustrated poetry book. He has shown his work in visual arts, which often focuses on popular culture, mythology, and hybridized ethnographic art, in several cultural spaces, including the Grande Bibliothèque (BAnQ) (Montreal), the Petite Place des Arts (St-Mathieu-du-Parc), the Pointe-à-Callière Museum of History and Archaeology, the Maison autochtone (Mont-Saint-Hilaire), La Guilde (Montreal), the Huron-Wendat Museum (Wendake), the Maison des gouverneurs (Sorel), the Musée ilnu de Mashteuiatsh, the Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy (Quebec City), Tangente (Montreal) and the Maison de la culture Ahuntsic-Cartierville (Montreal). His performance art pieces, Robe de chasse and L’esprit du bingo, have also been presented in numerous venues across Quebec. His recent curatorial work includes three exhibitions produced by Les Productions Feux Sacrés: Dans l’œil du lièvre – Christine Sioui Wawanoloath, presented at the Maison autochtone (2022-2023); Les treizes Grands-mères lunes – Frank Polson, presented at the Marché Bonsecours (2021); and Essence et apparât presented at the Espace culturel Ashukan (2019). Currently, he is working as an illustrator and storyteller on a children’s podcast series titled Petites sagesses.