Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Acts and the Ka’tarohkwi Festival as Participatory Calls for Decolonization

Kelsey Jacobson describes her experience as a spectator at the Ka’tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts and the Soundings exhibition, both held at Queen’s University in March 2019. Reflecting on her own settler positionality, Jacobson considers how the performances and exhibitions employed defamiliar...

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Published in:Canadian Theatre Review
Main Author: Jacobson, Kelsey
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 2020
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.182.015
https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.182.015
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Summary:Kelsey Jacobson describes her experience as a spectator at the Ka’tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts and the Soundings exhibition, both held at Queen’s University in March 2019. Reflecting on her own settler positionality, Jacobson considers how the performances and exhibitions employed defamiliarization, immersion, and participation to challenge audience members to consider what decolonization means to them, in the specific context of the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and the Anishinaabe.