Season One: Contours of Identity
When we started working on this project, one of the characteristics we kept emphasizing was that of placeโbe it the city, region, or biome that we are from. In many of our conversations, โPrairiesโ became the wordโthe catchallโfor the complexity of the place we were trying to encapsulate. As the project progressed, we started to wonder what exactly we meant when we said “making art in the Prairies,” or, “in the West.” With that question in mind, we decided to focus our first season on the Contours of Identityโin this case Prairie identity, and all the other ways of describing the land west of Ontario and east of the Rocky Mountains. Over the next few months we will have conversations, produce writing, and think about how we begin to answer this question.
FUTURE PRAIRIE
Future Prairie (Remediation Plot) is a collaborative artwork led by Apiโsoomaahka, Alana Bartol, Kara Matthews, and Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed at the Coutts Centre for Western Canadian Heritage. Rather than restoring land for human use, Future Prairie supports the recovery of prairie ecosystems, creating a habitat for native species… Read More…
