4th Annual Symposium on the Future Imaginary Exhibitions

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Indigenous Futures: Rooted & Ascending

Join us inworld at AbTeC Gallery! For detailed instructions on how to get to there, please visit:
AbTeC.land or click here to view the beginner’s guide to Second Life.
You can also experience the vernissage via a video livestream. Go to the Facebook event page to watch!

If you are in Yellowknife, you can buy your tickets to this event here.

Indigenous Futures: Rooted and Ascending, curated by Melaw Nakehk’o, founding member of Dene Nahjo, is a mixed-reality exhibition, taking place simultaneously at Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, NWT, (the first show of contemporary Indigenous art in the NWT!) and at AbTeC Gallery online. Exhibiting artists include Kablusiak, Margaret Nazon, Riel Stevenson Burke, Robyn McLeod, Siku Allooloo, Casey Koyczan, and Cody Fennel.

The virtual exhibition includes transmediated versions of the works in the physical gallery and offers a parallel avenue of access to the pieces. The artists in Rooted and Ascending engage with Indigenous Futurism, a social and cultural movement that celebrates the power of imagination, technology, and self-determination. They cast visions that describe, often through the lens of science fiction and cosmology, their own utopian ideals. Each artist, whether using technology or traditional techniques, explores what is possible. If colonial oppression did not exist, what would the future look like?

Trails and Overflow

For detailed instructions on how to get to AbTeC Island, please visit:
AbTeC.land or click here to view the beginner’s guide to Second Life.

Visit a virtual version of Roaring Rapids Hall, a roundhouse community centre in Fort Smith, NWT, to house the exhibition Trails and Overflow, curated by Davis Heslep, Programming Director at Western Arctic Moving Pictures (WAMP). A transmediated board game, photos, and a video comprise the works gathered in this show, reflecting ongoing work done at WAMP to bring digital media skills to local youth. Come take a ride on a skidoo!

An Evening of Indigenous-Futurist and Afro-Futurist Sci-Fi

The NWT Film Commission and BACupNorth will be sponsoring a free screening called “An Evening of Indigenous-futurist and Afro Futurist Sci-Fi” This screening event will be a collection of short films created through the lens of futurism.

Click here to watch.

The 4th Annual Symposium on the Future Imaginary is brought to you by the Initiative for Indigenous Futures.