Artist Opening Celebration: Art and Waste in Panniqtuuq, Nunavut

The Art and Waste in Panniqtuuq exhibition explores the ways Inuit Nunangat is a site where differing understandings, values, and beliefs collide, and dominant Western assumptions marginalize Inuit [and other Indigenous] ways of knowing and being. Inuit have identified waste as a serious environmental, social and health threat. This exhibition interrogates what is deemed 'wastes' in Panniqtuuq, by whom, and who is responsible for the myriad of waste-related issues. A group of Inuit artists have created a body of visual art that unearths personal and collective stories about their lived experience to provide a counter-story to commonly held notions about Inuit and waste.

As an artist, waste researcher, and settler Canadian, micky renders has reversed her scholarly gaze to create an art installation out of Arctic wastes about Arctic wastes. It depicts historical processes and deeply rooted colonialist assumptions she has internalized and benefits from (despite her wish to overcome them), linking these to waste and barriers to Inuit sovereignty and rights to a healthy and safe environment.

This exhibition runs weekdays from October 23 - November 3.

This event is free.

Fore more information, visit https://www.queensu.ca/theisabel/whats-on/art-and-waste-panniqtuuq-nunavut

Artist Opening Celebration: Oct 24

Opening remarks at 6:30 PM
Artist Talk: featuring Inuit Knowledge Holder Madeleine Qumauqtuq, Oct 25 at 5:00 PM
Indigenous Talking Circle - Environmental Racism Is Garbage: Oct 26 from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Artist Workshop with Oleepika Nashalik Talia Metuq: Oct 28 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM at AGNES