DAY 2 - Sat Dec 4
5:30pm
In Constant Return
Event Type:
On-site
Greg Staats and Rick Hill in conversation
Staats dives deeper into the meanings within his exhibition, In Constant Return, at the AGO, with Rick Hill Sr. Two new photo installations with Staats’ media work, Dark String is a meditation on land belonging, trauma, and renewal through his constant returns home to uphold what he calls his “reciprocal responsibility to knowledge.” Hill is a citizen of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee at Grand River. He is the former Assistant Director for Public Programs, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution and Senior Project Coordinator of the Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre at Six Nations Polytechnic.
About the Artists
Greg Staats
Greg Staats is Skarù:reˀ[Tuscarora] / Kanien’kehá:ka [Mohawk], Hodinöhsö:ni’. b. 1963, Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. A Toronto-based artist whose Hodinöhsö:ni restorative aesthetic employs mnemonics of condolence and performative burdens articulated in visual forms that hold body and place including oral transmission, text works, embodied wampum, photographic, sculpture, installation and video. Staats' practice conceptualizes... Read more
Rick Hill Sr.
Rick Hill Sr. is a citizen of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee at Grand River. He holds a Master’s Degree in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the former Assistant Director for Public Programs, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; Museum Director,... Read more