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To mark the closing of Alluvium, organized by Corson Androski and Allis Conley with support from Sarah Rowe, Zoe Todd will deliver a virtual lecture on Thursday, February 25th at 6pm. The exhibition examines the complexities of place and is directly informed by teaching exercises Zoe Todd developed for her Indigenous Ecological Ways of Knowing course at Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario).
During her lecture, Dr. Todd will dive deeper into her research as a Fish Philosopher and explore the human / more-than-human interdependencies that orient our relationship to Land away from constructs of imperialism, colonialism, and resource extraction towards an ethos of reciprocity and care.
Register through Eventbrite for a link to join the lecture on Zoom. And don’t forget to visit the Alluvium on view now at Amplify's Generator Space.
Free and open to all. Virtual programming is presented with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
About Zoe Todd:
Zoe Todd (Métis/otipemisiw) is from Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), Alberta, Canada. She writes about fish, art, Métis legal traditions, the Anthropocene, extinction, and decolonization in urban and prairie contexts. She also studies human-animal relations, colonialism and environmental change in north/western Canada.
Her research is on fish, colonialism and legal-governance relations between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian State. In the past, she has researched human-fish relations in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, and has also conducted work on Arctic Food Security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Her current work focuses on the relationships between people and fish in the context of colonialism, environmental change and resource extraction in Treaty Six Territory (Edmonton, amiskwaciwâskahikan), Alberta and the Lake Winnipeg watershed more broadly. Her work employs a critical Indigenous feminist lens to examine the shared relationships between people and their environments and legal orders in Canada, with a view to understanding how to bring fish and the more-than-human into conversations about Indigenous self-determination, peoplehood, and governance in Canada today.
She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.
About Alluvium:
Alluvium, organized by Corson Androski and Allis Conley with support from Sarah Rowe, and inspired by a teaching exercise designed by Zoe Todd for her Indigenous Ecological Ways of Knowing course at Carleton University (Ottawa, ON), is an immersive relational mapping exercise designed to "sensitize participants to the waterscapes [we're] situated in," and "expand awareness of indigenous territories beyond the abstract to more concrete/tangible factors." (Zoe Todd).
About Generator Grants:
Amplify’s Generator Grants program lends space and support (financial and otherwise) to Omaha-area artists throughout the process of organizing, marketing, and mounting a curated exhibition outside the context of larger institutional systems.