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Episode 20 - Response: Soft Action, featuring Caleb Ellison-Dysart and Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison in conversation with Jules Arita Koostachin The Polygon Podcast
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In this episode: a conversation between Response artists Caleb Ellison-Dysart and Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison with filmmaker Jules Arita Koostachin that was inspired by the artists’ participation in Response: Soft Action.
Find out more about this episode here: https://thepolygon.ca/news/the-polygon-podcast-episode-20-featuring-featuring-caleb-ellison-dysart-and-jacqueline-morrisseau-addison-in-conversation-with-jules-arita-koostachin/
Caleb Ellison-Dysart (Nîhithaw Cree) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work seeks to depict the interconnection of all things. His family comes from O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation and Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory, and he is currently attending Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison(Saulteaux, Treaty 7) is an emerging installation artist, facilitator, curator, and art historian whose work prioritises Indigenous sovereignty and explores how processes of decolonisation operate across arts institutions. She holds a BFA in Art History from Concordia University.
Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin, owner of VisJuelles Productions Inc., is Cree and a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation, located in what is now called northern Ontario. Jules completed her PhD with the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia—her research focus was on Indigenous documentary. She carries extensive experience working in Indigenous communities in varying capacities. Jules is also known as a media artist who works to honour cultural protocols and build relationships within communities through her arts practice. Her artistic endeavours are informed by her experience living with her Cree grandparents, as well as her mother, a residential school warrior.
In this episode: a conversation between Response artists Caleb Ellison-Dysart and Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison with filmmaker Jules Arita Koostachin that was inspired by the artists’ participation in Response: Soft Action.
Find out more about this episode here: https://thepolygon.ca/news/the-polygon-podcast-episode-20-featuring-featuring-caleb-ellison-dysart-and-jacqueline-morrisseau-addison-in-conversation-with-jules-arita-koostachin/
Caleb Ellison-Dysart (Nîhithaw Cree) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work seeks to depict the interconnection of all things. His family comes from O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation and Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory, and he is currently attending Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison(Saulteaux, Treaty 7) is an emerging installation artist, facilitator, curator, and art historian whose work prioritises Indigenous sovereignty and explores how processes of decolonisation operate across arts institutions. She holds a BFA in Art History from Concordia University.
Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin, owner of VisJuelles Productions Inc., is Cree and a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation, located in what is now called northern Ontario. Jules completed her PhD with the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia—her research focus was on Indigenous documentary. She carries extensive experience working in Indigenous communities in varying capacities. Jules is also known as a media artist who works to honour cultural protocols and build relationships within communities through her arts practice. Her artistic endeavours are informed by her experience living with her Cree grandparents, as well as her mother, a residential school warrior.
54 min