Camille Georgeson-Usher
Camille Georgeson-Usher is a Skwxwú7mesh / Hulquminum / Sahtu Dene/Scottish scholar, artist and writer from Galiano Island, British Columbia, which is of the Punelaxutth (Penelakut) Nation. Usher completed her MA in Art History at Concordia University. Her thesis, more than just flesh: the arts as resistance and sexual empowerment, focused on how the arts may be used as a tool to engage Indigenous youth in discussions of health and sexuality, drawing predominantly on the work of Qaggiavuut!, an Arctic performing arts group, for her case study. She is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at Queens University and has been awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral for her research-creation work around urban Indigenous experiences within Indigenous arts collectives and other groups activating public spaces through gestures both little and big. She has been awarded the 2018 Canadian Art Writing Prize and has been lucky to develop her installation-based artistic practice through acts of love and care in collaboration with filmmaker Asinnajaq.
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Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts
How can a score be a call and tool for decolonization? Curated by Candice Hopkins (Tlingit) and Dylan Robinson (Stó:l?), Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts features newly commissioned scores and sounds for decolonization by Indigenous artists who attempt to answer this question.
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