In the context of the exhibition Alanis Obomsawin: The Children Have to Hear Another Story, the MAC has invited three contributors to give a personal interpretation of Alanis Obomsawin’s exhibition and work.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 5:30 p.m.
Mylène Guay, cultural advisor at the Conseil des arts de Montréal
Duration: 45 min
In French
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 5:30 p.m.
— will include a visit to the mural Wàbigon
Caroline Monnet, multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and designer
Duration: 45 min
In French
Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at 5:30 p.m.
Katsitsanoron Dumoulin-Bush, curator, artist, writer and art mediator
Duration: 45 min
In English
Mylène Guay, based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang, is a cultural worker in Indigenous arts, curator, and author. Formerly the interim co-director of the Indigenous Curatorial Collective, she and the artist and curator France Trépanier co-wrote an essay for the book D’horizons et d’estuaires: entre mémoires et créations autochtones, published in 2020. For the Festival imagineNATIVE, she and the artist and curator Léuli Eshrāghi organized the first program of Indigenous films made by francophone artists of Turtle Island and the Great Ocean, Écrans autochtones: temporalité et mouvement. Since 2018, she has devoted herself to the promotion and flourishing of Indigenous arts within the Conseil des arts de Montréal by creating special funding programs and formulating an equity policy to support Indigenous art communities.
Caroline Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais. She studied sociology and communications at the University of Ottawa and the University of Granada (Spain). Her work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial in New York, the Toronto Biennial of Art, the KØS Museum (Denmark), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and the National Gallery of Canada. Solo exhibitions include the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Arsenal Contemporary (New York), the Centre d’art international de Vassivière (France), and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Her work is included in numerous collections in North America and in the permanent UNESCO collection in Paris. In 2020, Monnet received the Prix Pierre-Ayot and was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award; she is also the recipient of the Merata Mita Fellowship of the Sundance Institute, and the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards; she was recently named a Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec. Monnet is based in Montréal and is represented by Blouin Division gallery.
Katsitsanoron (Kat) Dumoulin-Bush is Onkwehonwe/French Canadian from Oshahrhè:’on (Châteauguay), Québec. They received their BA in linguistics from Concordia University in 2017 and continue to work as an educator in Indigenous communities across Québec teaching mathematics, science, music, special education, and kindergarten in Tasiujaq, Eastmain, and Kahnawà:ke. They have also worked in event planning and in radio as a DJ and music journalist. Katsitsanoron likes to think of themselves as a “non-disciplinary” artist, combining every medium at their disposal and using learning itself as a medium to make freeform works that pose and respond to questions about sexual, racial, and interpersonal identity. Passionate about arts and arts management, they have frequently collaborated with daphne art centre, Maison de la culture Rosemont-la-Petite-Patrie, and now with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC.)
