Knowledge Transference III (when the one to author the cut is gone, a small hole in the shape of a portal forms)
Jeneen Frei Njootli’s installations and live sound performances are sonic landscapes; frequencies and living energies that carry knowledge, information and stories related to the land, history, and culture of her Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, located in northern Yukon. For La Ferme du Buisson Art Centre, Frei Njootli presented a large photographic vinyl banner created by pressing beadwork their grandmother made into their skin. In a live sound performance midway through the exhibition, they transformed a hide scraper into a sonic tool to scrape the image away from the wall, leaving behind only its sonic residue. This work honours the art of Gwich’in women, especially the women of their family, and at the same time, protects it—and them—from consumption by a capitalist and patriarchal system that has long enacted itself in the form of violence upon the bodies of Indigenous women.
The Blackwood
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
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(905) 828-3789
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The Blackwood is situated on the Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Seneca, and Huron-Wendat.