Together Apart, Queer Indigeneities: Afuwa, Lacie Burning, Demian DinéYazhi’, Edzi’u, Whess Harman, KERUB, Lindsay Nixon, Anne Riley, fabian romero, Kali Spitzer, Chandra Melting Tallow (aka Mourning Coup), Storme Webber, With War (incl. La Tisha Rico), Cease Wyss
grunt gallery, Vancouver
April 19–21, 2019
When I first walked in, Kali Spitzer’s installation (2019) mirrored what I read to be the intention behind the weekend symposium: visibility, voice and individual representation by Indigenous women, gender-variant and sexually diverse kin. For every photograph of an Indigenous person on the wall was a paired headset playing voice recordings of them. The recordings varied from speeches, to singing, to conversations with the their kids. As I moved through the space witness ing each person, I had this aching feeling of familiarity. It felt like Kali captured not just an image, but an experience, a memory of
