AbTeC Gallery is thrilled to host two exhibitions in conjunction with the Symposium of the Future Imaginary, which will open with an interactive event including curatorial tours, statements by some of the artists, chatting, dancing and even light snacks (to be consumed by your avatar).
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. 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? Exhibiting artists include Kablusiak, Margaret Nazon, Riel Stevenson Burke, Robyn McLeod, Siku Allooloo, Casey Koyczan, and Cody Fennel.
Right next door to AbTeC Gallery, we have built 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.
AbTeC Gallery is an Indigenously determined virtual exhibition space for contemporary art, located on AbTeC Island in Second Life.
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!
Welcome & Technical Assistance by AbTeC
Skawennati (Co-Director, AbTeC)
Nancy Townsend (Producer, AbTeC)
Gallery Tour by curators:
Melaw Nakehk’o (Artist)
Davis Heslep (Western Arctic Moving Pictures)
AbTeC Gallery is thrilled to host two exhibitions in conjunction with the Symposium of the Future Imaginary, which will open with an interactive event including curatorial tours, statements by some of the artists, chatting, dancing and even light snacks (to be consumed by your avatar).
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. 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? Exhibiting artists include Kablusiak, Margaret Nazon, Riel Stevenson Burke, Robyn McLeod, Siku Allooloo, Casey Koyczan, and Cody Fennel.
Right next door to AbTeC Gallery, we have built 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.
AbTeC Gallery is an Indigenously determined virtual exhibition space for contemporary art, located on AbTeC Island in Second Life.
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!
Welcome & Technical Assistance by AbTeC
Skawennati (Co-Director, AbTeC)
Nancy Townsend (Producer, AbTeC)
Gallery Tour by curators:
Melaw Nakehk’o (Artist)
Davis Heslep (Western Arctic Moving Pictures)