Skawennati
Subtitle: from SkyWorld to cyberspace
By: curated by Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D. ; Wahsontiio Cross, Helen Gregory, Maize Longboat, Matthew Ryan Smith
Contributors: McIntosh Art Gallery; University of Waterloo. Art Gallery
Publisher: McIntosh Gallery
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9780771431326
Subjects: Exhibitions; Computer art; New media art; Multimedia (Art); Women artists; Art and the Internet; Canadian Art; Mohawk art; Themes, motives; Expositions
Other titles: From SkyWorld to cyberspace
Description: "In Skawennati's experience, the setting of the creation story, Sky World, has always been depicted as Terran, pre-contact, Iroquoia, with people living in wooden longhouses, wearing clothing made from animal hides, and using clay pots. Skawennati wants to imagine Sky World as another planet, a sustainable, peaceful, and technically-advanced society. Curated by Matthew Ryan Smith, the exhibition From Sky World to Cyberspace gathers a number of Skawennati's works which, together, trace a line from our place of origin somewhere in the heavens to the virtual realm, one of the newest territories on Earth. This line sometimes curves, sometimes becomes invisible, but along it are Onkwehonwe--Indigenous people--alive and kicking. These works are also a result of Skawennati's continuous investigation of cultural construction, contemporary Indigenous self-representation in cyberspace, and of our growing relationships with the digital world."
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition Skawennati: From SkyWorld to Cyberspace, curated by Matthew Ryan Smith, and presented at McIntosh Gallery, Western University, from March 21 to April 27, 2019, and University of Waterloo Art Gallery, from September 12 to October 26, 2019.

Text chiefly in English; some text in French.