Art[4]Change: Indigenous Women Speak

Art[4]Change: Indigenous Women Speak is a collaborative animated video by artists, Monique Aura Bedard (Onyota’a:ka, Oneida Nation of the Thames), Tia Cavanagh, (Anishinaabekwe, Mukwa Dodem, Sagamok Nation) and Alex Jacobs-Blum (Lower Cayuga Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River). By combining their practices, they seek to engage in a collective healing journey through truth-telling, reclamation and art intervention. A garment fashioned after a communion dress Tia Cavanagh’s Nokimos wore is re-interpreted through different visual aesthetics, reclaiming the past by making connections to the residential school legacy. Water is used from an Indigenous perspective of medicine to illustrate a caring for their histories, stories, memories, ancestors, families, futurities, land and themselves.

The video was projected onto a parking garage located at 32 York Blvd in downtown Hamilton during Supercrawl on the evenings of Friday September 13th, Saturday the 14th, and Sunday the 15th of 2019.