EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2022
MAWA First Friday Lecture Ecosystems of Inheritance by Lindsey Bond
Ecosystems of Inheritance
Lindsey Bond
Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art: First Friday Lecture
January 7, 2022 at noon
Lecture Video Link
Quilts can be a flexible membrane and extension the body through which inherited women’s farm stories and harmful settler colonial narratives are revealed, unraveled and re-storied. In this talk, Bond will share her graduate “research as creation” projects exploring unsettling her family archive to sew a more conscious family legacy. She will bring together makers, farmers and parents, (inclusive of 2SLGBTQQIA community members), whose slow ecological fiber practices further land back, responsible stewardship and sustainable agriculture initiatives.
Lindsey Bond (she/her) is an intermedia artist-mother and graduate researcher born in amiskwacîwâskahikan, (Beaver Hills House) or Edmonton, where the North Saskatchewan River flows on Treaty Six Territory. Using slow fiber and intermedia processes she intervenes in her white-settler family archive to think through her responsibility as woman and mother to remember and sew a relationship with the land.
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.
Lindsey Bond Studio News
Artist Talk + Workshop @ NorVA Flin Flon MB
ARTIST TALK
Sites of Strength and Resilience
Sunday, May 14. 1-2pm
Lindsey will begin discussing sites of strength and resilience in the context of motherhood and nationhood, touching on her long term investigations into memory, land and identity.
Supported by her last two bodies of work Negotiating Spaces and Bridge Meditations, Lindsey will touch on her experience at the MAC Deep Bay Residency in Riding Mountain National Park during the fall of 2016 where she worked on her evolving series Negotiating Spaces; Ghost Lines. This project investigates the shifting ground between the sacred and forgotten; the effects of defunct rail-lines in Manitoba. Composed of medium-format photography, audio and text, this project strives to create an alternate archive of stories and images that are not in the history books, rather those that live in the memory of the people, communities and land effected by the railway. From there, she will discuss her lastest series Bridge Meditations. This photographic and video work recently created during Wood Land School, Summer Institute at Plug In ICA, follows the movement of woman and birds across the Louise, Arlington and Slaw Rebchuck bridges in Winnipeg. Bridge Meditations, initially inspired by Daphne Odjig's Thunderbird Woman, looks to investigate the bridge and the bird as they relate to transformation, strength and meditation. Using walking as a methodology, this new body of work raises questions about our experience of bird and bridge and the movement towards reconciliation.
WORKSHOP
How to Photograph your artwork
Sunday, May 14 2:30-4:30pm
In this two-hour workshop, participants will learn how to professionally photo-document artwork. We will begin the workshop by covering the fundamentals of photo-documentation including: the correct positioning of artwork, choosing cameras and appropriate lenses, reviewing light conditions, white balance, as well as focus and composition. During the workshop we will explore the pros and cons of natural lighting and studio strobe lighting, sinc cord vs. wireless remote sinc and paper or material backdrop. We will also touch on necessary tips and tricks such as how to water-level your tripod and camera, as well as some in-a-pinch DIY photo-documenting equipment and skills!
Participants are encouraged to bring their own camera, memory card and tripod, as well as two or three-dimensional artwork to photo-document.