In this workshop with artist Taloi Havini explore the materiality of commemorating, honouring, reframing, and restoring, and how these materials communicate family histories and narratives.
Havini’s practice uses personal, communal, and political expressions of material culture to maintain and honour Indigenous ways of being and knowing. Drawing on Yhonnie Scarce’s use of archival family material and sentimental objects in her installations, this workshop invites you to create your own installation artwork as a kind of personal offering.
Participants are asked to bring personal or sentimental objects, photographs, and ephemera and to use in constructing their own installations. You may explore intergenerational or cross-generational histories and narratives, or your own experience, in this practice of honouring and commemorating. You might choose to honour relatives that have passed; those that are still living; or perhaps to those that are not yet born—you decide.
