The Department of Elementary Education encourages everyone to check out a student-lead, arts-based research-creation project featuring fellow colleague and professor Trudy Cardinal.
Included in the exhibition repurposed: an exploration of digital art and activism, Cardinal shared personal anecdotes and her expertise in Indigenous ways of knowing and being in relation with the land in the project Unsettling Colonial Mapping: Sonic-Spatial Representations of amiskwaciwâskahikan. The project is a sonic exploration and representation of the North campus of the University of Alberta, with special attention to hear the stories of the land and its people by reimagining mapping as a potentially decolonial praxis where boundaries aren't lines on a map at a specific place in time drawn by the powers that be. The project's creators are Kendra Cowley and Kateryna Barnes, both graduate students in the Digital Humanities program in the Faculty of Arts.
repurposed is a part of the Department of Women and Gender Studies' Feminist Research Speaker Series and runs until the middle of April. Visit the femlab gallery in 1-02 Assiniboia Hall to see the entire exhibition, or read the blog to see and hear Trudy's contributions.
The project will also be on display at the University of British Columbia for the HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) 2019 conference.
Photo one: Trudy Cardinal is a proud kokum to her granddaughter Kinley Taya, shown here in a photo from 2013. Photo courtesy Trudy Cardinal.
Photo two: Illustration of the kisiskāciwani-sīpiy (North Saskatchewan River) within amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton). Illustration by K.Barnes.