Initialement co-présenté par CAPACOA et Edinburgh Festival Fringe sous l’égide de Spotlight Canada, le programme UNcommon Wealth était une initiative culturelle menée par le Haut Commissariat du Canada au Royaume-Uni, le Conseil des arts du Canada et Patrimoine canadien au début de juillet 2022.
Présentation curatoriale de “The UNcommon Wealth”
D Bolduc
La régénération de la voix autochtone prend racine et chair dans l’acte de création. Toute création est un acte politique axé sur le savoir intergénérationnel et ancré dans un lieu, des gens, une terre, des valeurs, des expériences et des visions du monde. Nos lignées sont des ruisseaux qui relient nos histoires et nos façons d’être. Elles alimentent des rivières, des fleuves, des lacs et des océans. Tout en réfléchissant sur la puissance et la portée de ces liens, nous reconnaissons que nos systèmes de connaissances sont au cœur de la vision du monde et des pratiques autochtones. Ces eaux, nous les naviguons en résistant par des relations de nation à nation à l’extraction coloniale qui n’a jamais cessé et à notre
marchandisation sur mesure. Nous évoquons la déconstruction du « projet colonial » et imaginons ce qui aurait pu être. Nous assumons le pouvoir de la richesse commune de nos dons naturels et inhérents et nous nous fondons sur des relations significatives, la responsabilité et la redevabilité tout en centrant l’indigénéité sur l’autodétermination.
Ce programme à trois volets réunit des penseurs respectés, des plumes en feu, des brasseurs de cabanes et des créateurs du Canada, d’Australie et d’Aotearoa. Il commence par un appel (une provocation) suivi d’une réponse sous forme de deux conversations. Chaque partie est mise en mouvement par des créations parlées. La provocation et les conversations ont pour point de départ l’énoncé thématique ci-dessus. Les conversations se déroulent sans hôte ni sujet spécifique. Il faut y voir plutôt une rencontre amicale où s’échangent idées, questions et expériences qui englobent le point de vue du commissariat, de la provocation et des créations parlées. Le public est invité à considérer cet événement comme une expérience programmée répartie sur plusieurs jours.
The UNcommon Wealth organisée par Denise Bolduc et ses co-créateurs internationaux Jacob Boehme (Australie) et Dolina Wehipeihana (Aotearoa).
Équipe
Vous recherchez les biographies des artistes et des animateur.trices participant.es ? Retrouvez-les sur les pages individuelles de Partie 1, Partie 2 et de Partie 3.
Denise Bolduc – Curatorial Lead, Canada
Denise Bolduc is an established creator, creative director and producer who programs to transform perspectives and activate change. Her career of three decades represents countless contributions and connections with numerous celebrated artists, creative thinkers and leading cultural institutions nationally and internationally. She has led several large-scale events such as Biizindin!, Built on Genocide, Illuminating works, and Tributiaries (Luminato 2017-2021), Transforming Landscapes and Intersections of Cultures (CAPACOA), Beyond 150 Years: An Acknowledgement of Indigenous Film (REEL Canada), Maadaadizi/Summer Journeys (PanAM Games) and the inaugural, Planet IndigenUS festival. Denise is the writer/director of the commissioned film, Zaagidiwin which opened the 2021 Luminato festival, and a co-editor/contributor of Indigenous Toronto: Stories That Carry This Place (Coach House, 2021).
She is a member of numerous boards, councils and committees, a host and moderator, an advisor, a faculty member with the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, a Producing Faculty member with This Gen Fellowship (Why Not Theatre), and a mentor to many. Denise is the recipient of the 2020 Margo Bindhart and Rita Davies Award (Toronto Arts Foundation), the Indigenous Arts Award (Ontario Arts Council), Australia’s SOLID Festival’s Arts Leadership Award, Toronto’s Indigenous Business Leadership Award, and is an ISPA Fellow. She most recently accepted the appointment as the inaugural Director, Indigenous Arts at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre.
Denise is Anishinaabe and French, born and raised in the Lake Superior-Robinson Huron Treaty Territory, and is a member of the Batchewana First Nation with familial ties in Garden River First Nation.
Dolina Wehipeihana – Co Curator, Aotearoa|New Zealand
Dolina (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Raukawa) is a producer, arts manager, choreographer, and performer. Dolina is currently General Manager of Kia Mau Festival, Kaiārahi Māori at PANNZ (Performing Arts Network New Zealand), and Chair of Atamira Dance Collective Charitable Trust. She is also a co-director and producer for Betsy & Mana Productions, and an advocate for contemporary Indigenous theatre and dance.
Betsy & Mana Productions has produced for artists White Face Crew, co-produced the national tour of Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen’s The Mooncake and the Kumara and Kirk Torrance’s Flintlock Musket. She has toured New Zealand work to Australia, Hawaii, New Caledonia, and Edinburgh.
Previously the Head of Programming for Auckland Arts Festival, Dolina currently sits on Te Rōpu Mana Toi – the advisory group to the Advocacy team at Creative New Zealand. She is also a member of the Māori arts leadership collective The Grateful 8, the tri-nations curatorial advisory group, and oversees the Producing Programme delivered by Ngā Hua Toi.
Dolina was awarded the 2021 Te Waka Toi award Ngā Tohu Hautūtanga Auaha Toi | Making a Difference Award, which recognises leadership and outstanding contribution to the development of new directions in ngā toi Māori.
Jacob Boehme – Co Curator, Australia
Jacob Boehme is a critically acclaimed theatre maker and choreographer, from the Nharangga and Kaurna Nations, creating work for stage, screen, large-scale public events and festivals. Jacob is the newly appointed, inaugural Director First Nations Programs for Carriageworks, one of Australia’s largest experimental and multi-arts venues.
Alumnus of NASIDA College of Dance and the Victorian College of the Arts, (MA in Arts – Playwriting, MA in Arts – Puppetry) Jacob has led the artistic direction of Tanderrum (Melbourne Festival), Boon Wurrung Ngargee (Yalukit Willam Festival), Thuwathu (Cairns Indigenous Arts Fair), Geelong After Dark and was the founding Creative Director of Yirramboi Festival, recipient of the 2018 Green Room Award for Curatorial Contribution to Contemporary and Experimental Arts.
Jacob is the writer and performer of the critically acclaimed solo work Blood on the Dance Floor, recipient of the 2017 Green Room Award Best Independent Production.
Jacob is an Australia Council for the Arts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow and has been a member of International Advisory Committees for the Calouste Gulbenkian UK Inquiry into the Role of Arts Organisations, the Ministry of Culture Taiwan South East Asia Advisory Panel, the Global First Nations Advisory and Bibu Festival International First Nations Curatorial Committee.
Jacob is developing The Wild Dog Project: a multi-disciplinary exhibition and gathering, connecting dingo stories and songlines between South Australia, Northern Territory, Far North Queensland and South East Asia, as part of Tarnanthi Festival in 2022.