2021-08-19-AG-VER-66 (1)
In August 2021, AbTeC Gallery hosted a double vernissage extravaganza as a part of IIF’s annual Symposium of the Future Imaginary. Curated by Melaw Nakehk’o, founding member of Dene Nahjo, Indigenous Futures: Rooted and Ascending is a mixed-reality exhibition taking place simultaneously at Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, NWT, and at AbTeC Gallery online. The virtual exhibition included transmediated versions of the works in the physical gallery and offers a parallel avenue of access to the pieces. The Indigenous 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? Exhibiting artists include Kablusiak, Margaret Nazon, Riel Stevenson Burke, Robyn McLeod, Siku Allooloo, Casey Koyczan, Cody Fennel.
For the exhibition Trails and Overflow we erected a virtual recreation of Roaring Rapids Hall, a roundhouse community centre in Fort Smith, NWT, next to AbTeC Gallery. Featuring art and materials from a transmediated, community-created board game, curator Davis Heslep of Western Arctic Moving Pictures brings together an exhibition reflecting WAMP’s ongoing work in promoting digital media skills among local youth.
AbTeC Gallery is an Indigenously determined virtual exhibition space for contemporary art, located on AbTeC Island in Second Life.
2021-08-19-AG-VER-66 (1)
In August 2021, AbTeC Gallery hosted a double vernissage extravaganza as a part of IIF’s annual Symposium of the Future Imaginary. Curated by Melaw Nakehk’o, founding member of Dene Nahjo, Indigenous Futures: Rooted and Ascending is a mixed-reality exhibition taking place simultaneously at Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, NWT, and at AbTeC Gallery online. The virtual exhibition included transmediated versions of the works in the physical gallery and offers a parallel avenue of access to the pieces. The Indigenous 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? Exhibiting artists include Kablusiak, Margaret Nazon, Riel Stevenson Burke, Robyn McLeod, Siku Allooloo, Casey Koyczan, Cody Fennel.
For the exhibition Trails and Overflow we erected a virtual recreation of Roaring Rapids Hall, a roundhouse community centre in Fort Smith, NWT, next to AbTeC Gallery. Featuring art and materials from a transmediated, community-created board game, curator Davis Heslep of Western Arctic Moving Pictures brings together an exhibition reflecting WAMP’s ongoing work in promoting digital media skills among local youth.
AbTeC Gallery is an Indigenously determined virtual exhibition space for contemporary art, located on AbTeC Island in Second Life.