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A Conversation with Spider Woman (Or to Catch a Spider in Its Own Web)
A Conversation with Spider Woman (Or to Catch a Spider in Its Own Web) draws from the Cree legend of Spider Woman, in which she is surreptitiously watched as she weaves her web and her knowledge is propagated against her will. Intertwining a telling of this legend and fragments of an imagined conversation between her and myself, this piece combines video and beadwork to explore the strength in the idea and practice of refusal and its potential for Indigenous cultural self-preservation. Considering my position as an artist and my responsibilities to the Cree oral tradition, A Conversation with Spider Woman exists at a point of tension between revealing, obfuscating, and hiding in order to reflect on how Indigenous knowledge is viewed, shared, and appropriated.