Nocturne: Art at Night 2023
October 12-15, 2023
Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS
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Jamesie Fournier (Nunavummiut / Yellowknife )
Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich (Koyukon Denaa and Iñupiaq / Anchorage)
Coco Lynge (Kalaaleq Greenlandic / Denmark)
Malayah Maloney (Nunavummiut / Vancouver)
Taqralik Partridge (Nunavimmiut / Ottawa)
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Heather Igloliorte (Nunatsiavummiut / Victoria)
Alysa Procida (Settler / Toronto)
Carla Taunton (Settler / Halifax)
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices and Taqsiqtuut Research-Creation Lab was proud to support four installations at this year's Nocturne Festival in Kjipuktuk/Halifax! Nocturne is an annual contemporary art festival in Kjipuktuk/Halifax organized by the Nocturne: Art at Night Society. The installation titled qiaqsutuq was on view during the all night event, October 14th.
Contributing artists included: Coco Apunnguaq Lynge (Kalaaleq Greenlandic/ Denmark), Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich (Koyukon Denaa and Iñupiaq / Anchorage), Jamesie Fournier (Nunavummiut / Yellowknife), Jordan Hill (T'Sou-ke Nation), Malayah Maloney (Nunavummiut/ Vancouver), Melissa Peter Paul (Epekwitk/PEI), Amy Malbeuf (Métis, Rich Lake, Alberta), Jordan Bennett (Mi’kmaw, Ktaqmkuk), Carrie Allison (nêhiýaw/cree, Métis, and mixed European descent), and Taqralik Partridge, (Nunavimmiut / Ottawa) who all came together to form the installations during a week-long research incubator hosted by CERC and NSCAD's CiMADE Lab in July 2023.
Alongside the installations, CERC supported a panel discussion with artists, Amy Malbeuf, Jordan Hill, Carrie Allison, Melissa Peter Paul, and Jordan Bennett: Activating Art in Mi'kma'ki on Thursday, October 12th from 6-8 pm.
Produced by the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Decolonial and Transformational Indigenous Art Practices and Taqsiqtuut Research-Creation Lab in collaboration with the Inuit Art Foundation, this artwork is the result of an artist incubator that took place in the summer of 2023 at NSCAD Univerisity’s CIMADE Lab in Kjipuktuk/ Halifax, and premiered at Nocturne Night Festival in October 2023.
Technical and coordination assistance provided by: Aghalingiak, Matthew Brulotte, Kylie Fineday, Annik Gaudet, Yi Fan Liu, Chris Mockford, Danielle Aimée Miles, Nathan Ryan, Hollis Roberts, Natalie Rollins, Carly Greene, Dominic Thibault, Satya Underhill, Nils Ailo Utsi
qiaqsutuq
In Inuktutit, qiaqsutuq is the sound of the whistling wind and the sound of crying. In this collaborative multimedia installation created by five artists from across Inuit Nunaat (from their Inuit homelands in Alaska, Canada and Greenland) qiaqsutuq is critically imagined as a lament for nuna, tariuq, and sila, a chorus of its Arctic inhabitants from the land, sea and sky. As glaciers melt, permafrost melts, floods abound and smoke billows north from forest fires, weather becomes unpredictable, and thus dangerous, in the Arctic. Featuring the distinct perspectives on the impacts of climate change by Iguttaq (Bee Woman), Tuktu (Caribou), Nanuq (Polar Bear), Tulugak (Raven) and Natchik (Seal), these harbingers warn of the fast approaching consequences of our collective inaction on the precious life throughout Inuit Nunaat.
