Body Language: Decolonial Love

Body Language: Decolonial Love

Curated by Charlotte Hoelke

Kirsten Lindquist (Métis)
RJ Jones (Saulteaux/Cree)
Dionne Paul (Nuxalk/Sechelt)
Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde (Mohawk)
Dayna Danger (Métis/Saulteaux/Polish)
Pati Solomona Tyrell (Samoan)

August 12 - September 9, 2017
Vernissage: August 12, 6-8pm

For more info see activities the list below, or visit http://www.asinabkafestival.org/Schedule.html

The artists represented in Body Language embody powerful, diverse acts of decolonial love in their works, in that they explore and express: forms of intimacy; loving relations with body, self, land, and kin; sexuality; gender; and the erotic. Further, individually and placed together, these works create spaces for decolonial loving languages and dialogue. I hope you will visit, and join the conversation. ♥

Activities list:

- Artists in Attendance at the Vernissage

- Poetry readings at the Vernissage by Nathan Adler - kegedonce.com and Obsidian Eagle - obsidianeagle.com

- Burlesque Performance at the Vernissage by Virago Nation - https://www.viragonation.ca/ and

Burlesque workshops by Virago Nation:

Dangerous Curves: Healing Your Relationship with Your Body
When: Saturday August 12 , 12-1pm
Location: Ottawa Dance Directive (2 Daly Ave.)
Registration details at: http://www.asinabkafestival.org/Burlesque.html

Not Your Auntie's Craft Class: Making Nipple Tassels!
Sunday August 13, 12-1pm, followed by a Matinee film program
Location: Gallery 101 (51 B Young St.)
Registration details at: http://www.asinabkafestival.org/Burlesque.html

- Inkdigenous Tattoo's onsite at the Vernissage - www.cbc.ca

- Free Event / Snacks / Cash Bar / Music

Asin Fest - http://www.asinabkafestival.org/Music.html

Gallery 101 is proud of our partnership with the Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival. G101 presents an exhibition component of the ASINABKA festival annually and disseminates many more embodied, relational, collaborative, performative and object based art practices that offer resistance to mainstream cultural events.

Gallery 101 gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council (an agency of the government of Ontario), and the Canada Council for the Arts. Gallery 101 thanks the Asinabka: Film & Media Arts Festival, our members, volunteers, partners, and all our relations.