Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts

How can a score be a call and tool for decolonization?

Curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts features newly commissioned scores, performances, videos, sculptures and sound by Indigenous and other artists who respond to this question. Unfolding in a sequence of five parts, the scores take the form of beadwork, videos, objects, graphic notation, historical belongings, and written instructions. During the exhibition these scores are activated at specific moments by musicians, dancers, performers and members of the public, gradually filling the gallery and surrounding public spaces with sound and action.

Full Soundings Performance Schedule:

• Tuesday, November 5: Raven Chacon’s American Ledger
• Thursday, November 7: Tania Willard’s Surrounded/Surrounding
• Thursday, December 5: Peter Morin’s NDN Love Songs

Exhibition Related Events:

• Opening Reception
• Visiting Scholar Talk: Dylan Robinson “Against Hungry Listening”
• First Nations Film Series: RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
• Family Day
• First Nations Film Series: Four Sheets to the Wind (2007)
• Children’s Storytime with My Heart Fills With Happiness
• First Nations Film Series: Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things (2016)
• Children’s Storytime with Jingle Dancer
• First Nations Film Series: Smoke Signals (1998)
• Brown Bag Chat at the Public Library

Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts is a traveling exhibition curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, and organized by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Canada and Independent Curators International (ICI). The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with the generous support from ICI’s International Forum and the ICI Board of Trustees. Additional support has been provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter Program, the Isabel and Alfred Bader Fund of Bader Philanthropies, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Kingston Arts Fund through the Kingston Arts Council, and the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund at Queen’s University.

The Gund Gallery exhibitions and programs are made possible, in part, by the Gund Gallery Board of Directors and the Ohio Arts Council.

Image: Ogimaa Mikana, Never Stuck, 2018. Vinyl transfer, artist booklet. Installed at the Agnes Etherington Arts Centre at Queens University in Toronto. Collection of the artists. Image courtesy of ICI. Photo: Paul Litherland.