2024_ Guest Lecture_Concepts Have Teeth
15.2.2024
Reconnect: Presentation of the Mootookakio'ssin and Concepts Have Teeth projects
For this guest lecture, WONA invited members of The Mootookakio'ssin (https://mootookakiossin.ca/) and Concepts Have Teeth (https://www.arts.ac.uk/.../current.../concepts-have-teeth) projects which aims to reconnect Blackfoot items in UK museums with Blackfoot people and assist in processes of knowledge renewal and transmission. The microsite is a part of the Blackfoot Digital Library (https://www.blackfootdigitallibrary.com/.../collection/bdl), an online resource for all those now living in kitawahsinnoon. Here they have created a space that harnesses new technologies for creating and interacting with 3D and RTI images of Blackfoot items. The name, Mootookakio’ssin, was given to the project by Dr. Leroy Little Bear. In English it means distant awareness.
Its members are a large interdisciplinary team of Indigenous and non-indigenous artists and researchers led by Elders from across the Blackfoot Confederacy. Mootookakio'ssin supports artists in addressing the legacies of colonialism, the relationship between physical and digital artworks, and how identity is entangled with these practices.