Moving the Landscape to Find Ground:Greg Staats Artist Talk

Post Image is pleased to welcome Hodinöhsö:ni artist Greg Staats for an artist talk on October 18th at 6PM: in-person at Concordia University (EV 11.705, EV Building, 1515 St. Catherine W., Montreal) or online via Zoom

Moving the Landscape to Find Ground, a cycle of artist talks and artist residencies which will take place from September 2022 until May 2023 .This series is built from a shared ambition to break open lens-based practices via the interrogation of the colonial prism through which photography exists. We are inviting conversation among all communities impacted by the colonial gaze.  The speakers invited to Moving the Landscape to Find Ground will also provide studio visits to Concordia University graduate students

If you wish to have a studio visit with one of our speakers, please sign up here.

Greg Staats is Skarù:re [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, articulated in visual forms that hold body and place including: oral transmission, text works, embodied wampum, photographic, sculpture, installation and video. Staats’ practice conceptualizes Land as monument embodied within a continuum of relational placemaking with his on-reserve lived experience, trauma, and the explorations of ceremonial orality. Staats’ lens based language documents cycles of return towards a complete Onkwehón:we neha [our original ways] positionality, reciprocity and worldview.

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Our programming is in collaboration with the Indigenous Futures Research  Centre, the Feminist Media Studio and the Black Perspectives Office. This project is generously funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Milieux Institute for Arts and Culture and Concordia University’s OVPRGS (Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies).