Event
Krista Belle Stewart: Artist Films [In-Person]
Wed Feb 09: 7.30pm PDT
Sliding-scale, pay-what-you-can, $0-$25 at $5 increments!
This program is best viewed in conversation with Krista Belle Stewart's visual art. Your ticket also entitles you to a special tour of Krista Belle Stewart: Truth to Material, directly before the screening, with curator Martin Schwartz. To join, please arrive at Goethe Pop Up Seattle at 6 p.m. on February 9. The Pop Up is located one block away from NWFF, at 1424 11th Ave, Suite 101, in Chophouse Row. Please bring proof of vaccination and ID.
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Visiting Artist
** This program will include a specially recorded Q&A with the artist. **
About
Goethe Pop Up Seattle and Northwest Film Forum present a program of film and video work by Krista Belle Stewart, a Berlin-based artist and member of the Syilx Nation, in conjunction with Stewarts exhibition Truth to Material currently on display at Goethe Pop Up.
Co-presented with Henry Art Gallery.
Seraphine, Seraphine
Screening
(2015. HD video, stereo, colour, 3857)
In Seraphine, Seraphine, Krista Belle Stewart interrogates and expands the public record of the artists mother, Seraphine Stewart, British Columbias first Indigenous public health nurse. Next to and juxtaposed with a generally sympathetic but fictionalized 1967 CBC docu-drama on Seraphine Stewart, the film shows filmed testimony Seraphine Stewart gave in 2013 to a Vancouver Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing. The CBC film gives a version of the elder Stewarts story in a scripted voiceover, while in her testimony, she narrates aspects of her own experience, from her childhood partly spent in residential schooling on, unmediated by outsiders. Bringing these ways of telling into contact and conflict, in this film work, Krista Belle Stewart underlines issues of agency and authenticity in representations of her family, and challenges audiences to recognize and counteract colonial structures in archival and media practices.
Potato Gardens Band (Spaxomin version)
Presentation
(2018. HD video, stereo, colour, 23)
** Please note that this presentation of Potato Gardens Band takes place in conversation with Krista Belle Stewarts artistic work, including the iteration of Truth to Material currently installed at Goethe Pop Up Seattle. **
Krista Belle Stewarts ongoing project Potato Gardens Band has evoked critical questions regarding the nature of cultural ownership, archives, and truth itself. Each of the three iterations in this series, have incorporated the singing voice of Stewarts great-grandmother, which was in 1918 recorded on wax cylinders by the anthropologist James Alexander Teit. Along with this ancestral voice, came jaw harp and tin whistle music, performed by the elder womans group, the Potato Gardens Band. Over consecutive iterations, Stewart and her collaborators have widened the scope of the complex ancestral dialogue enabled by those recordings. The piece has thus become a fluctuating incantation, of intersecting personal, familial, and cultural memories.
The final iteration of Potato Gardens Band, video from which is shown in this presentation, took place in 2018 between Stewarts Spaxomin land and Vancouvers 221A gallery. Asked to stage a performance, Stewart transmitted a live feed, from her phone, of a speaker system playing her great-grandmothers recording, on her ancestral land. This performance expressed kinship between individual and ancestral pasts. But crucially, it also constituted a gesture of refusal, directed at the expectation that ones history and trauma be reified into a cultural commodity, within the neo-colonial industry. The pieces power lies in this equivocal negation. (From the artists website)
About the artist:
Krista Belle Stewart is a Berlin-based artist and member of the Syilx Nation. Stewart works with video, land, performance, photography, textiles, and sound, using personal and political narratives inherent in archival materials while questioning their articulation in institutional histories. Stewart holds an MFA from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, NY. She was recently an artist-in-residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien through the Sobey Art Award Residency Program. Stewart was the recipient of The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA for the Visual Arts Award (2019). She is currently a PhD in Practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Stewarts work has been exhibited as part of Kunstverein in Hamburg; 39th EVA International Ireland Biennial, Limerick; CTM Festival, Berlin; Hessel Museum, CCS Bard, Annandale-On-Hudson; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Nanaimo Art Gallery; Artspace, Peterborough; SFU Teck Gallery, Vancouver; Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; Musee dArt Contemporain, Montreal; Independent Studio and Curatorial Program, New York; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg; and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
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