EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
AbTeC (Jason Lewis and Skawennati Tricia Fragnito)
Otsi:! Rise of the Kanien’kehá:ka Legends
TimeTraveller™
Héloïse Audy
IN-SIGHT Narratives of Women Hunters
Khadija Baker
My little Voice can’t Lie

[in-tur-pri-tey-shunz] is an interdisciplinary exhibition that explores the intersections between contemporary art and oral history. As artists develop aesthetic innovations in storytelling, how are they influencing social memory through their narrative interpretations? What are the salient considerations and challenging questions around shared authorship and collaborative ethics that are raised by these works?
The exhibition includes engaging installations, related public events and an on-line space for shared commentary – all of which are proposed opportunities for reflection and discussion. The participating artists were encouraged to consider this exhibition as a period of conceptual incubation and interactive research, whereby public reaction may contribute insight for the evolution of the works.
Thematic overtones that may be traced between the works are coincidental; all works were independently conceived of and developed.
Curator, Pohanna Pyne Feinberg
* Special thanks to Amber Berson

EXHIBITION WEBSITE:
For more information on the exhibition and oral history.
www.interpretashunz.wordpress.com



EVENTS:
WEDNESDAY APRIL 6
Vernissage and Screening
» Screening of TimeTraveller™
17:00 – 18:00
York Corridor Amphitheatre EV-1.615
Across from the FOFA gallery
» Public reception
18:00 – 20:00
FOFA Gallery atrium
EV Building, Concordia University

THURSDAY APRIL 7
Round Table Discussion
“Oral History and the Arts”
18h00-19h30
In celebration of the first 5 years of The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
Guests: Edward Little (Department of Theatre); jake moore (FOFA gallery);Khadija Baker (artist); Jason Lewis and Skawennati Tricia Fragnito (AbTeC Co-Directors); and Héloïse Audy (artist).

APRIL 14th
Performance by Khadija Baker
“My little Voice can’t Lie”
12:00 – 14:00
Webster Library Foyer
LB BUILDING 1450 De Maisonneuve West

June 23

Outdoor Screening

"TimeTraveller™ Episodes 01-04" by Skawennati

8:30pm-10:30pm

Sculpture Garden on Ste Catherine Street

FOFA Gallery 1515 Ste-Catherine Street West, EV 1-715

ARTWORKS & BIOGRAPHIES (links here):
AbTeC Co-Directors (Skawennati Tricia Fragnito and Jason Edward Lewis)
Héloïse Audy
Khadija Baker

THANK YOU TO THE EXHIBITION SPONSORS



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JUNE 23 8:30pm-10:30pm
Outdoor Screening:

TimeTraveller™: Face-Off (production still), 2010

TimeTraveller™ Episodes 01-04
Skawennati (with the support of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace)
Outdoor screening, St. Catherine Street Sculpture Garden Courtyard

This screening is an extension of the exhibition [in-tur-pri-tey-shunz]
Pohanna Pyne Feinberg, curator with special thanks to Amber Berson
http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/2011/04 abtec.htm
http://www.interpretashunz.wordpress.com
www.TimeTravellerTM.com
www.AbTeC.org

Outdoor Screening:

Thursday, June 23, 8:30pm
Reception to follow

Where:
St. Catherine Street Sculpture Garden Courtyard

FOFA Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University

1515 Ste. Catherine Street W., EV 1.715

Montreal, Quebec (Metro Guy-Concordia)

Free admission. Everyone welcome.



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TimeTraveller™ is a machinima series and website which together tell the story of Hunter, an angry young Mohawk man living in the 22nd century. Despite the fact that he possesses an impressive range of traditional skills, Hunter is unable to find his way in an overcrowded, hyperconsumerist, technologized world. He embarks on a vision quest that takes him back in time to historical conflicts that have involved First Nations. Along the way, he meets Karahkwenhawi, a young Mohawk woman from our present, whose unique perspective on Aboriginal issues deeply affects him. Together, they criss-cross Turtle Island, discovering the complexity of history, and of truth itself.

The Story So Far…

Episode 01
Fort Calgary 1875

The year is 2121. Brilliant billboards, seamless and seemingly endless, light up the flyway. A young man, sporting a black jetsuit and a dreadhawk, zooms through the air, propelled by a fusion-powered jet pack.

The first episode introduces us to Hunter in his environment. Tired of his life as a hired gun, Hunter wants to do something different. He realizes that he can use his edutainment system –his TimeTraveller™-- to find guidance to his own path. Thus begins his journey.

It also introduces us to TimeTraveller™ the device that has revolutionized the History industry. Hunter punches in some keywords and finds himself in Fort Calgary, 1875, at a showing of a panorama –a precursor to the modern movie. The panorama is being used to tell the story of the Minnesota Massacre, an important event in First Nations history. Being from the future, Hunter’s sense of marketing and spin is highly developed, but he marvels at the efficacy of this unsophisticated agit-prop. He decides to go to the actual event to learn the truth.

Episode 02
Minnesota 1862

With the push of a few buttons Hunter finds himself walking single file on a forest path along with four Dakota Sioux. Like them, he is dressed in elkskin leggings and a cotton shirt, carrying a rifle. They come to a break in the trees. A farmhouse stands about 500 metres away. That’s where the massacring begins.

Hunter travels to the event that is said to have begun the Dakota Sioux Uprising of 1862. Using TimeTraveller™’s Intelligent Agent mode, he becomes part of a Dakota hunting party. For the first time in his life, he feels part of a team. He is transforming.

Episode 03
Kanesatake 1990

Curious about his own heritage, Hunter uses the TimeTraveller™ search functions and finds out about the Mohawk Crisis of 1990. Behind the barricades at the Treatment Centre he learns about the Warrior Society, the Two-row wampum and other teachings. Among the people staying there is a 6-year-old girl named Karahkwenhawi. Hunter protects her during the evacuation of the TC.

This episode commemorates the 20th anniversary of this terribly significant event in First Nations and Canadian history. In it, Hunter learns important aspects of Mohawk culture, and his connection to it, while also understanding the connections between Native people from across Turtle Island.

Episode 04
Winnipeg 2112

Karahkwenhawi, now 26 years old, is doing research at Francis Xavier Mission, Kahnawake, when she sees an apparition. Wondering if she is seeing the ghost of Kateri Tekakwitha, she realizes that it is not the Blessed Lily of the Mohawks, but a man! As she realizes it is the one who protected her during the Crisis, he flickers out of existence --but his glasses drop to the floor. She picks them up and sees that they are not of this world (or at least, this time).

Karahkwenhawi dons the TimeTraveller glasses, intending to find Hunter in the future, but can’t quite figure out how to use them. She ends up traveling to 2112, to a pow wow in Winnipeg, unlike any she’s ever seen.

About the Artist:

Skawennati is an artist who has been working in New Media since 1996, beginning with the pioneering on-line exhibition and chat space, CyberPowWow. Her artwork addresses history, the future, and change and has been widely exhibited. She is the recipient of imagineNative’s 2010 Best New Media Award and a 2011 Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art. Skawennati currently co-directs, with Jason E. Lewis, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace.

AbTeC | Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
AbTeC is a network of academics, artists and technologists whose goal is to define and share conceptual and practical tools that will allow us to create new, Aboriginally-determined territories within the web-pages, online games, and virtual environments that we call cyberspace. www.AbTeC.org

AbTeC is generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Concordia University, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture and produced by Obx Labs.