Aug 20 – 27, 2021
Produced with the generous support of Powell Street Festival, Odd Meridian hosted multidisciplinary artist River Blondin Burt in a residence that explores their work, Love Letters For Divided Nations. River’s residence culminated in live performances of auto-ethnography that were installations about ancestral visitations, indigenous identity, and inter-generational healing – expressed through poetry, song, movement and audio/visual landscapes.
River (Cassandra) Blondin Burt is a two-spirited Dene artist whose multidisciplinary work is grounded in an exploration of art as medicine. They believe that the radical act of co-creating with other-than-human relations is an act of socio-political rebellion, and a pathway for transformative collective healing in the Anthropocene era. They were raised in Vancouver, on the traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, are a proud member of the Yellowknives Dene Nation, and currently live in their ancestral homelands of Denendeh.
