Artist Talk: asinnajaq

The Indigenous Futures Research Centre (IFRC) is excited to once again collaborate with the Just Feminist Technology and Scholarship Lab and cohost this virtual artist talk featuring asinnajaq.

asinnajaq is from Inukjuak, Nunavik and lives in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). Her work includes photography, filmmaking, writing and curating. She co-created Tillitarniit a three day festival celebrating Inuit art and artists. asinnajaq wrote and directed Three Thousand (2017) a short sci-fi documentary.

They co-curated Isuma’s show in the ‘Canadian’ pavilion at the 58th Venice. In 2020 asinnajaq was long listed for the Sobey Art Award. She co-curated the inaugural exhibition INUA at the Qaumajuq. asinnajaq programmed the Flaherty NYC 2022 fall program Let’s all be lichen. In their work, asinnajaq is interested in sharing tools for navigating life’s journey.

This event is part of the fifth season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series Disrupting Disruptions, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.