Graduate Thesis Exhibition: Ecosystems of Inheritance
Lindsey Bond: Ecosystems of Inheritance
MFA Intermedia
University of Alberta
November 8 - December 3, 2021
FAB Gallery
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/shows/gallery-listings/2021-22/lindsey-bond-ecosystems-of-inheritance.html
About the Exhibit
EEcosystems of Inheritance engages in slow fiber conversations to remember and re-story inherited women’s agrarian stories around the Battle River from Bond’s family archive. Unconventional quilts, photo-sculptures and video emerge from conversations with inherited harms present in women’s farm stories, more-than-human beings and nêhiyaw (cree) knowledges in Treaty 6 Territory.
Over eight seasons, Bond traveled with her family between their home in amiskwacîwâskahikan and the nôtinito-sîpiy or Battle River. The artist and her son witnessed and created artwork alongside the riverbank through rotational authorship. Their intergenerational memory work thinks through responsibility to the family memories and the land, pointing beyond their family narratives toward an entangled web of relationships beside the river.
The exhibit reflects on how archival memory, land-based and embodied memory explore the incomplete and unequal relationships between settler memory and traditional Indigenous and land-based knowledges. What stories are held together and what frays? The roots, folds, and stitches are where Bond’s responsibility as woman (she/her) and mother emerge to sew a more conscious family legacy.
Special thank you / nanâskomon to: Tanya Harnett and Marilene Oliver, Theo Bond-Price, Roger Garcia, nôhkom Jo-Ann Saddleback, Dale Saddleback, Dr. Dwayne Donald, Daniela Barrales and Roxanne Tootoosis, Aunty Lauri, Aunty Betty, Aunty Frances, Aunty Carol, Aunty Linda, Garry Bond, Gayle Bond & Alex Thompson.
Closing Reception
November 25, 2021, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
FAB Gallery
Ecosystems of Inheritance programming during exhibition
Artist Performance/ Participatory making session
1. Enfolding a heavy oil field: a conversational quilt.
In person and online making session
Friday November 12, 19, 26 from 12pm-4
You are invited to stitch text to re-story family conversations about sustainability, carbon tax, and impact oil fracking across Treaty 6 Territory. The heavy oil field around Lloydminster, Saskatchewan was originally omitted from Lindsey’s family archive. In this participatory making session, she invites participants to intervene and stitch back into the archive through hand stitching, embroidery, cross-stitch and beading.
Connected Artwork:“Why can’t we swim in the river Mom?” Quilt, 2021
2. Ecosystems of Inheritance: Collaborative Quilt
Online making session
Sundays: November 7, 14 and 21 from 3-5pm
JOIN ZOOM MEETING
In three online sessions, self-identified artists, parents including 2SLGBTQQIA community members, are invited to discuss and make quilt pieces through slow and diverse ecological material processes. Children and fur babies are welcome in the virtual making spaces as we create a collaborative quilt to reveal, unravel and re-story inherited settler colonial harms and rebuild relationships sewing a more conscious legacy forward.
Each session will begin with introductions and participants are welcome to begin or continue to make unconventional or formal quilt pieces. In the first session we will discuss the form of the quilt and decide on the size and shape of the pieces (or, if we should put a constraint on form at all?). Quilt pieces may include, but are not limited to: hand stitching, weaving, quilting, natural dying, silkscreen, bundle dying, beadwork, needlework, hide tanning, crocheting, or knitting etc…
The sessions will not be recorded, but alternative forms of documentation will be discussed by the group. If approved by the group, any video or audio will be displayed in the exhibition at the University of Alberta FAB Gallery between November 8-December 3, 2021.