https://remirror.harbourcollective.ca/

The mirror is what remains after data memory is lost. The process of remirroring establishes new connections to official and unofficial copies of memories: pure data, photographs, stories handed down, the associations that smells can sometimes awaken.

“This [piece] is kind of telling my story mixed with my grandma’s. It’s looking at the Anishinaabe culture – to learn it, dissect it, and decode it through the lens of a screen of a computer.” Quinn Hopkins

With the Re/Mirror Experiments, Harbour Collective sought proposals from media artists working in digital art, moving image or audio forms to experiment with the notion of remirroring in form or content, or both. Experimentations took all forms, including technical experiments or experimentations with storytelling approaches.

The collective met and reviewed submissions from across Turtle Island and selected three artists, Bawaadan Collective, Quinn Hopkins and Christine Kirouac. The works were completed and submitted for the screening, along with recorded artist talks with the Bawaadan Collective, Christine Kirouac and Quinn Hopkins.

Our non-hierarchical Collective reflects the traditional “flat” structures of our communities’ past. It is our goal to constantly adjust our organizational structures and modes of storytelling to create inclusive, mindful spaces, and better represent Indigenous peoples in the mainstream. – Bawaadan Collective

“We didn’t give them a name. That’s what they were called.” – Line from Second Hand – Christine Kirouac

Harbour Collective would like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, Creating, Knowing and Sharing.