Commemoration & Renaming on the Road to Reconciliation
Commemoration & Renaming on the Road to Reconciliation: A Talk by Métis Artist & Educator, David Garneau. This talk was hosted by Reconciliation Saskatoon in June 2023. Thanks to the City of Saskatoon for their assistance with poster design and communications. We are grateful to the Broadway Theatre for providing the space and recording the talk!
Culture C(l)ash: Can Indigenous Artists Make a Living Without Selling Out?
Description: In traditional Indigenous cultures, beautiful handmade things express the identity of a community, a clan, a ceremonial and artistic lineage. The objects were made by community members for their community, and occasionally for gifting and trade with others. With colonization came cash. Indigenous artists began making art as a commodity. In this panel discussion, artists who work in different media will share how their practices are shaped by personal cultural experiences, and the place of their identities and histories in contemporary art making. They will consider questions such as: Is Indigenous contemporary art primarily for non-Indigenous people? Should we be exchanging our culture for money? How do Indigenous artists make a living without harming their culture?
Who Speaks, For Whom, and How? / Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò & David Garneau
In this conversation, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and David Garneau discuss the problem of publicly speaking for others and speaking on given topics, particularly when it comes to publishing criticism of a given work of art or cultural text. Grounding the conversation in their respective practices —Táíwò as a musician, writer, and philosopher, and Garneau as an artist, critic, and curator—the two think through the relationships between art criticism, philosophy, and positioning. Drawing from frameworks such as standpoint epistemology and Black, Indigenous, and decolonial thinking, they consider such questions as: who speaks, for whom, on what, and how? Who can or should write about art by Black or Indigenous artists? Does consent play a role in criticism—in the sense of a writer or critic needing consent, or permission, to write about a given work—and why or why not? What forms might writers take up when speaking for or about others with whom they may or may not have a relation? The two brainstorm strategies for critics when it comes to approaching a given work and looking at, reflecting on, and producing responses to artworks via writing, oral critique, and other practices.
Art Collaborations as Creative Care
This is the second presentation of the joint Indigenous Ukrainian Relationship Building Initiative between the Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre at MacEwan University and the Kule Folklore Centre at the University of Alberta. The presenters, David Garneau and Sandra Semchuk, discussed art collaborations as creative care; Chelsea Vowel facilitated the discussion.
Future Imaginary Symposium Kelowna – David Garneau
Presentation at the 2nd Annual Symposium on the Future Imaginary, Kelowna, B.C., 5 August 2016.
Winging It With David Garneau
Marc and Charles chat with David Garneau about his his work and creative process.
David Garneau Queen’s FDASC 16th Annual Symposium on Indigenous Research
David Garneau Presentation and Q&A at the Queen’s Four Directions Aboriginal Student Centre 16th Annual Symposium on Indigenous Research: Critical Indigenous Reflections on Sir John A. Macdonald
DAS 2018 Critical Writing Ensembles: Sovereign Words – David Garneau
‘Indigenous’ is not just a term that attempts to corral thousands of local identities but one that announces a new way of being Native. Indigenous is a collective identity in formation that includes, but goes beyond, traditional identities. While it is the form through which local communities are mostly known, championed, and advanced, it can also be co-opted and distorted by dominant, non-Native cultures and discourses. How do Indigenous writers, thinkers, artists, curators, activists and other cultural workers negotiate the complex identity called Indigenous? In this presentation, David Garneau offered suggestions that have arisen from his own experience and recent projects.
Smoke Signals 2018: David Garneau Keynote Presentation
“Shame, Shame, Shameless – Not to Confuse Politeness with Disagreement” (2013)
Arts Writing Workshop with David Garneau: What and Why Do You Want To Write About Art?
On Week 12 (July 14, 2022) of our Arts Writing Mentorship 2022 program, we invited David Garneau to discuss: What and why do you want to write about art? Facilitated by Henry Heng Lu and Rachelle Tjahyana, tune into the talk + group discussion and sharing, followed by a Q&A at the end.
Shushkitew Collective Saskatoon Gathering 2022: David Garneau – Artist Talk
Over 40 Métis artists, curators, cultural workers, and Knowledge Keepers gathered over the final weekend in September at the Remai Modern for our second gathering. Together, everyone celebrated Métis art at the opening of Storied Objects, discussed the needs of the Métis art community, envisioned future supports, and more.
David Garneau speaks at the College of Law
‘Joseph Boyden may not be an Indian, but he is Indigenous: On the Indigenization of the University and Canada’, with guest speaker David Garneau. Recorded on March 9, 2018.
David Garneau | Member Presentations || Présentations des members
David Garneau (Métis) is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. He is a painter, curator, and critical art writer who engages creative expressions of Indigenous contemporary ways of being. Garneau has given keynotes in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and throughout Canada. His paintings are in numerous public and private collections. He was awarded the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts: Outstanding Achievement.
David Garneau | Imaginary Spaces of Conciliation and Reconciliation: Art, Curating and Healing
David Garneau’s painting, drawing, curating, and critical writing often engages issues of nature, history, masculinity, and contemporary Indigenous identity. Garneau is interested in how the non-Indigenous narratives of closure present in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has led to constraints on the types of stories that are welcome in this official site of healing. In this talk, Garneau discusses art making as a site of healing for those left out of these constrained narratives of closure presented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
MA16 David Garneau – From Colonial Trophy Case to Non-Colonial Keeping House
Presented at Museums Australasia Conference Facing the Future: Local, Global and Pacific Possibilities 15-19 May 2016, Auckland, New Zealand.
Increasingly, we Indigenous people are taking control of our cultural belongings, keeping them in sovereign display territories, remembering and expanding our understanding of what and how these things mean. Even so, not everything will be returned to us, and some things may be better off where they are – if not how they are.
Hoop Dancers
In this larger work, the dreamlike footage shows a group of four dancers in full regalia playing a casual game of basketball between performances at the Standing Buffalo School northeast of Regina.
Hoop Dancers
Indigenous Contemporary Arts
David Garneau (Métis) is a Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. He is a painter, curator, and critical art writer who engages creative expressions of Indigenous contemporary ways of being. Garneau has given keynotes in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and throughout Canada. His paintings are in numerous public and private collections. He was awarded the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts: Outstanding Achievement.
Portrait of David Garneau, GGArts 2023 winner
David Garneau is a 2023 winner of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
The Canada Council for the Arts is a federal, arm’s-length Crown corporation created by an Act of Parliament in 1957 (Canada Council for the Arts Act) “to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts.”
Kapishkum Métis Gathering Panel Discussion
Kapishkum, meaning “to transcend” in Michif, brings together a cohort of Métis artists to engage in creative production and advance their personal practices alongside peers and faculty mentors. This program aims to celebrate and bolster Métis-specific art, creative forms, and unique ways of being, knowing, and doing in a collaborative and critical environment.
Speakers include Jason Baerg, an Indigenous activist, curator, educator, and interdisciplinary artist; Daphne Boyer, whose work combines natural materials and high resolution digital tools to create art that celebrates her Indigenous heritage; Liz Barron, a founding member of the Harbour Collective, which supports Indigenous filmmakers and visual artists; and David Garneau, a painter, curator, and critical art writer who engages with contemporary Indigenous ways of being.