Nuit Podcasts - Belonging to Place
Travel across urban, polar and pacific landscapes with Dr. Julie Nagam to reveal the space between us as a potential site for sharing knowledges. Her conversations with artists, elders, arts leaders and scholars from around the globe will uncover the stories and connections between cultures, communities, and the environment, to transform the future of public art.
A series of ten 30-minute curated podcasts with interviews and discussions revolving around a geographic thematic. Artistic Director Dr. Julie Nagam dialogues with artists, cultural producers and specialists to unearth different artistic practices and their relation to the rich history of rivers, oceans, mountains, and forests as content and metaphor.
Podcasts available October 3:
Episode 1 - A home for our migrations will ground you within the sense of place that has transformed over time to which is rooted in Indigenous stories of place. With over 3 million people living in the City of Toronto with little knowledge of Indigenous contributions to its living history. This first podcast episode will explore concepts of home and history with artists Jeff Thomas, Duke Redbird, Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Michael Belmore.
Episode 2 - Unsettling place will unpack ideas of colonialism and slavery as the grounding foundation of the creation of cities with critical thinkers Dr. Ngarino Ellis, Dr. Jolene Rickard, Odario Williams, Dr. Natasha Henry, and Haivia Mighty. Public art can memorialize narratives and each city has its own histories of development and ways of knowing these contentious histories of space and place.
Episode 3 - Memory and belonging will explore the waves of people connecting to new homes and the creative interventions that allow for people to communicate their own sense of place. Telling their stories through their own perspectives and lived experiences. With artists Caroline Monnet, Yung Yemi (Adeyemi Adegbesan), Director X, Amrita Hepi, Jessie Reyez and Rah.
Episode 4 (available November 3) - Transmissions will open up lines of communication and movements through tensions that appear when the status quo is overturned, and how such ruptures can be a catalyst for difficult dialogues and changing our community with the creation of culture-based knowledge for generations to come. Collaboration and allyship will be explored with arts leaders and artists Karoline Trollvik, Ashley McKenzie-Barnes, July Talk, Ravi Jain and Noor Bhangu.
Episode 5 (available December 3) - Mark Making will map out street art, tagging, and architectural interventions that push against the structures that dominate our daily interactions with the cityscape. Artists through their practices transform public space and in doing so confront the tensions between the built environment, humans, and gentrification. This episode will feature discussions with artists Philip Cote, eL Seed, Dr. Eduardo Aquino, Kaaterina Kerekere, Dr. Serena Keshavjee.
Episode 6 (available January 3, 2021) - Across ice floes and oceans will connect us to water as a route to new places and relationships that are built within collaborative creative exchanges. The environment of experiencing the ebbs of flow of the ocean reminds us of the importance of communication and connection. Participating artists include Rachael Rakena, Michael Bridgeman, Jerry Evans, Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi, and Maureen Gruben.
Episode 7 (available February 3, 2021) - Growth and transformation will delve into the rapid pace of change and growing infrastructure within urban spaces. The crisis of the built physical environment and the challenge of planning for a city that continues to grow and shift. This increase in people poses new opportunities for connection, and the creation of new narratives that are transforming cityscapes. Artists Tanya Tagaq, Esmond Lee, Joi Arcand, and Amanda Parris.
Episode 8 (available March 3, 2021) - Exchanges for collaborations will uncover the importance of decentering individualism and working towards collective actions that can create radical change in our institutions and structures through collaborations. Reflecting on new models of working we explore shared dialogues with curators and artists Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, Kablusiak, Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Asinnajaq, Randell Adjei and Michelle De Lyon.
Episode 9 (available April 3, 2021) - Remixes and vibrations will look at the transformation of media with sound, visual and screen-based formats. As our world rapidly shifts towards new and digital media, the screen is continuously within our reach. Conversations with Alan Greyeyes, Jarrett Martineau, Mark Stoddard, Jason Lewis, Dr. Johnson Witehira, and Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua investigate new movements in music, photography, VR, AR, and AI.
Episode 10 (available May 3, 2021) - Moving through water will map out major water and trade routes that define the geographic boundaries of the Nuit Blanche 2021 exhibitions instead of the grid system that generally defines them. Beginning in the East and moving West: the Rouge River, Don Valley, Yonge Street, Garrison Creek, Humber River, Mimico Creek, and Lake Ontario, the focus is not on water but the way people navigate through space, exploring ideas of displacement and disruption through the social, cultural, and architectural evolution of the city. With special guests.