STTLMNT IS NOT HERE asserts an Indigenous artist strategy utilizing occupation (digital and physical) to disseminate post-colonial artworks and create our own living archive. 

STTLMNT IS NOT HERE features artwork, action and engagement by Raven Chacon with Candice Hopkins, Dayna Danger, Tania Willard, and Cannupa Hanska Luger, and will exhibit at Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON, Canada October 8, 2021 – November 13, 2021

STTLMNT IS NOT HERE is produced in collaboration with STTLMNT, Trinity Square Video and imagineNATIVE; with curatorial support by STTLMNT Producer Ginger Dunnill and concept artist Cannupa Hanska Luger.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, installation artist, and educator from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, whose internationally renowned work ranges from chamber music to experimental noise and large-scale installations.

Candice Hopkins is a curator, writer, and researcher interested in history, art, and Indigeneity, and their intersections. Originally from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation.

Through monumental installations and social collaboration, Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara/Lakota) interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about twenty-first century Indigeneity, producing large-scale projects globally.

Tania Willard, Secwépemc Nation and settler heritage, is an artist and curator. Their work is invested in intersectional ecological concerns and land-based art practices centred in Indigenous territory, community, and knowledge.

Dayna Danger is a Tio’tia:ke, Two-Spirit, Métis, and Saulteaux/Anishinaabe visual artist, activist, and drummer. They are a visual artist who claims space with their human-scale work to challenge perceptions of power, representation, and sexuality.