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  • PUBLISHED on October 30, 2020

Plainsong by Raven Chacon November and December  Curated by Tarin Dehod  Performance Saturday, November 7, 10am with Doreen Girard on flute, Erica McFadden vocals, Darren Miller on accordion, Lyin Mya on saxophone, respectfulchild on omnichord, Cassandra Stinn on flute Livestream production by The Get Up SK Plainsong is a large format outdoor score displayed on […]

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  • PUBLISHED on July 06, 2020

Janet Wang Ports of Entry AKA/PAVED Billboard space Co-presented by AKA, Hamilton Artists Inc., and PAVED Arts July through August 2020 Based on research of Chinese-Canadian settler histories, and visual storytelling, Wang has created a panoramic digital work, Ports of Entry. This panorama is comprised of numerous smaller vignettes, tied together with references to the […]

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  • PUBLISHED on June 08, 2020

Maggie Groat flowers also gardens, gardens also seeds  Billboard June 2020 curated by Tarin Dehod The frame of this moment is part of who we are, and part of who we have always been even if we have ignored it in the past. It is once again exposing to the privileged the worst of ourselves, […]

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  • PUBLISHED on January 08, 2020

Erdem Taşdelen, Demagogues: 3, 2019.   Billboard Project by Erdem Taşdelen January 15 to March 21, 2020 Demagogues is a provocation to question the authenticity of what is visible in the public realm. Each iteration of the work, whether a billboard or a framed print, is a photograph of the very site it’s displayed in and […]

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  • PUBLISHED on September 03, 2019

Sarah Houle, Warpaint, 2006. Billboard project by Sarah Houle September 9 to October 26, 2019 Houle’s photographic series, The Girls follows her nieces as they grow. She captures the everyday, elevating the importance of family through the documentation of love, intimacy and family. The mundanity of the images demystifies contemporary Indigeneity, debunking stereotypes and rebuking the […]

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  • PUBLISHED on June 26, 2019

Billboard Project by Catherine Blackburn Hamilton Artists Inc. Co-presented by AKA, Hamilton Artists Inc., and PAVED Arts June 3, 2019 – May 24, 2020 Catherine Blackburn’s photographic installation on The Inc.’s exterior Cannon Project Wall, Narhî Wasagabiich, celebrates traditional Indigenous garment-making and adorning, practices that express women’s care for their families and communities. Reinventing beadwork techniques she […]

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  • PUBLISHED on June 18, 2019

Billboard project by Meghan Price AKA/PAVED Billboard space Co-presented by AKA, Hamilton Artists Inc., and PAVED Arts July through August 2019 Price’s New Balance series features pattern and waste plastics in an aggregate of image, material and structure to link human and geologic time, consumer culture and ecology. Composed of deconstructed, used athletic shoes, these […]

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  • PUBLISHED on September 07, 2018

Image courtesy of Tchiniania Productions. Billboard project by Marvin Luvualu António  September through October, 2018 My mother was a powerful woman. She was both revered and loathed. In May 2008, she was found dead in her Luanda home, an apple resting in her hand. Her name was Julienne Luvualu. The kind of name that rolled up […]

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  • PUBLISHED on June 06, 2018

Media Arts Matriarchs Billboard organized by Niki Little, Becca Taylor and #callresponse Co-presented by AKA, PAVED Arts and Wanuskewin June 13 to July 31, 2018   Media Art Matriarchs is a collective naming and feminist citation of Indigenous women-identified artists and trailblazers within film, video, audio, and new media. This billboard is a gesture of respect […]

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  • PUBLISHED on January 11, 2018

She is Spitting a Mouthful of Stars (nikâwi’s song) Billboard project with Gregory Scofield January/ February 2018 She is Spitting a Mouthful of Stars was written by award-winning Métis poet Gregory Scofield, whose aunt was murdered in 1998. The poem will be featured on AKA’s billboard space as the final project in a series of the […]

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