DANIELLE HYDE
ABOUT DANIELLE:
Danielle is a multi-disciplinary Indigenous artist with a disability in Tkaronto. Their artwork spans many mediums and materiality including new media, murals, painting, and installations mixed with performance.
Anchoring their practice and process is an approach that centers generosity and ethical relationality in every creative action. All Art is a collaboration, a cocreation. blending styles and materiality. Danielle honours Art's fundamental generosity expressed in partnership with the Land, our first art teacher. Acknowledging this co-authorship offers invitations to reconnect as we are 4-dimensional beings; through hearts, minds, bodies, and spirit all operating in chorus with the seen and unseen.
As the Art is alive and aware when it is being observed it opens windows of understanding to speak with the viewer. In such conversations grounded by ethical relationality we can engage Art in dialogues that re-member those things that keep us whole. With Art, we build that ethical relationality and reciprocal ways of collaborating with the world. Grounded in fundamental generosity we create the critical good places from which Art and community can hold space together. As care is communal, these dialogues on how we do these stories justice in elevating voices and convening knowledges are critical to robust decolonial ecologies of community and accessibility.
DANIELLE’S PROJECT:
In the spirit of collaborating with technology, beyond-human relatives and human beings the project I am developing is all about living within Indigenous futurism. To occupy space where we have unseated colonial narratives from the assumed center and dominance over every conversation and ways of relating. A space where dehumanizing wellness, disembodying our self from our needs and broken relations with all our relatives has become alien.
The project is to create an Indigenous Cyberpunk Medicine Garden. An immersive cyberpunk organic space upheld by teachings and protocol. Centering the experience on Indigenous futurisms and elevating Indigenous voices through storytelling, this is a space to gather. To live and breathe in the air of what it would mean to win. To explore what that means, how do we walk the good road together and experience just value systems beyond exploitation of Land. To embody two-eyed seeing when creating a sustainable future for the next seven generations. To celebrate in the ways that while systems change can be hard, it is also beautifully irresistible.
This project will bring together live teachings from Elders explored in tandem with projection mapping and audience participation in space activated by mixed reality technology. I hope to adapt both projection mapping and interactive augmented reality into the space. Anchoring the physical space with 3-dimensional surfaces shaped like enlarged plant-like sculptures, forming a Neechie (sharing) circle around a virtual fire for teachings to take place. To deepen the interactive experience, through AR audiences will follow animal footprints to collect Asema across four points. Learning about the four medicines audiences find their way to that center fire and hearing teachings of our Jiibay Ziibi and star systems.
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