tīná gúyáńí (Deer Road) and Annie Wong in Conversation
In this conversation, seth cardinal dodginghorse and Glenna Cardinal discuss with Annie Wong their hybrid (between virtual and presential) exhibition k'ō-dī īyínáts'īdìsh (new agency). Moving from the conception of the works to the various changes that had to be made because of the current pandemic, the artist collective tīná gúyáńí (Deer Road) shares with us what built the exhibition k'ō-dī īyínáts'īdìsh (new agency).
The works in k’ō-dī īyínáts’īdìsh (new agency) are a political response to the environmental and psychological effects of the South West Calgary Ring Road, through the reclamation and continuation of traditional Tsuut’ina/Niitsitapi methods of storytelling.
tīná gúyáńí (Deer Road) - Are a two-person artist collective comprised of Tsuut’ina mother and son, Glenna Cardinal and seth cardinal dodginghorse. In 2014 they were forcibly removed from their homes and ancestral land for the construction of the South West Calgary Ring Road, a highway. Their work utilizes their family’s history and experiences of displacement to challenge the South West Calgary Ring Road’s ongoing colonial damages.
Annie Wong is a writer and multidisciplinary artist working in performance and installation. Conceptually diverse, her practice explores the intersections between the political and poetic in everyday life, intergenerational feminist anger, the melancholy of ancestral amnesia, and hauntologies of diasporic displacement. Wong has presented across North America including at the Toronto Biennale of Art, Studio XX, SBC Gallery (Montreal, QC), and Third Space Gallery (Saint John, NB). She has been awarded residencies with the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Power Plant (Toronto, ON), The Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax, NS), Banff Centre for Creativity and Art (Banff, AL), and the Varley Art Gallery. Her recent literary works in poetry, art writing, and non-fiction can be found in Koffler.Digital, The Shanghai Literary Review, C Magazine, Canadian Art, and MICE Magazine.