bīskabiyang
In Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison's poetic bīskabiyang the artist reflects on the nurturing of many homes – our bodies, our spirits, our families and communities, our plant, animal and earthly kin, as well as our first home, Mother Earth.
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TRANSCRIPT
For me, soft action is bīskabiyang. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson describes this as a collective process of ‘returning to ourselves’. For nimaamaa and I, we are learning that this journey of finding and (re)connecting to a multiplicity of beings and places comes with many responsibilities. It is a process of nurturing many homes – our bodies, our spirits, our families and communities, our plant, animal and earthly kin, as well as our first home, Mother Earth.
Generously supported by Canada Gives—Taylor Taliesin Foundation
Volume 2: Presence
Collection
This second issue of Parallelogram addresses the theme of “presence”: how we situate ourselves online and offline, and how these spheres overlap to shape our experiences of the world. If Parallelogram is imagined as a virtual space that departs from The Polygon Gallery’s physical platform, itself situated on colonised and unceded territories, how do we situate Parallelogram on the internet? What does it mean to parallel a place sited on ancestral lands, using a medium that can potentially be accessed anywhere?
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