DAY 2 - Sat Dec 4
4:30pm
Theatre of the World
Event Type:
On-site
Alan Michelson (Mohawk, USA) in conversation with Wanda Nanibush
Alan Michelson’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) is a video installation on view at the AGO. It is titled after the first modern European world atlas, with videos culled from dozens of maps, illustrations, paintings, photographs, videos, and audio material. Theatrum transmutes five hundred years of colonial history, into a charged meditation created from a contemporary indigenous perspective.
About the Artists
Alan Michelson
Alan Michelson is an internationally recognized New York-based artist, curator, writer, lecturer and Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River. For over thirty years, he has been a leading practitioner of a socially engaged, critically aware, site-specific art grounded in local context and informed by the retrieval of repressed histories. Recent exhibitions include... Read more
Wanda Nanibush
Wanda nanibush is an Anishinabe-kwe curator, writer and image warrior. Currently she is the inaugural curator of Indigenous art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her current major exhibition Robert Houle Red is Beautful (AGO) is set to your. She has curated many exhibitions including Rebecca Belmore Facing the Monumental (2018) JS McLean Centre for Indigenous... Read more