The Requickening Project would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts - Aboriginal International Collaborative Exchange program, the Institute of International Education New York, NY (USA), Smith College, Northampton, MA (USA) and the Ontario Arts Council and its Access and Development Program. We would also like to thank the YAKAMA Nation (Washington State) and the George Gordon First Nation (Saskatchewan).
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Contemporary ART
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The Requickening Project comes out of an effort to enhance international partnerships that have developed around issues of commercial exploitation, lack of legitimacy and enforced invisibility of contemporary Indigenous arts of Native North America. Against tremendous economic and organizational handicaps, a body of artists, intellectuals and curators has organized over the past decade to ensure that the wisdom and beauty of Indigenous communities is recognized in the global platform of the Venice Biennale. This movement has eschewed institutional sponsorship and control, preferring instead to make long-term meaningful connections with committed partners in Italy, Canada and the States. Their ability to continue these important conversations relies not only upon their dedication and desire, but also the support of an extended community of allies.
The Requickening Project is made up of five individuals who come from various backgrounds in the arts specific to Aboriginal art and its production. Shelley Niro, artist, filmmaker and exhibiting artist of the 2003 Biennale, Lori Blondeau, performance artist and director of Tribe Inc., Ryan Rice, artist, independent curator and co-founder of Nation To Nation and the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective will join Nancy Marie Mithlo, curator, academic and co-founder of the Indigenous Arts Action Alliance and Italian anthropologist Elisabetta Frasca with assistance from Mario di Martino in Venice, together have formed an active organization
Hi Just to say how impressed I was with the biennale exhibit and it is uncanny to see how close we are in the way we think. I always put across the indigenous point of view as I have lived it and cannot do otherwise anymore. It is strange to see how the dominant culture be it Dutch, English or American just does not get it and keeps that colonial mindset. It is hard to live in especially because they think I think like them and I don't.
It is VERY important what you do, people need to hear what Native people have to say and it is so true!! It is essential to break through this mindset and the Requickening is doing exactly that, it is wonderful it gets out to society over here.
I would love more dialogue on this subject, it makes me feel connected and less alone in this world over here.
