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Primarily narrative and characterized by cohabitation of multiple genres and motifs, Pierre Dorion’s painted works revolve around questions asked of painterly practice by the photographic image…

Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn’s art encompasses a wide array of processes based on her research, informed by feminist theory, which she applies to investigations of issues of historicity, community, utopian policies and multiculturalism…

Since 2006, Claire Savoie has been creating, among others, the ongoing work _Aujourd’hui (dates‑vidéos)_, which consists of producing daily videos according to a specific protocol…

Skawennati makes art that addresses history, the future, and change from an Indigenous perspective. Born in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, she holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, where she is based. She is Co-Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC).

Anne-Marie (AM) Trépanier is an artist-researcher and editor. Through their practice, they explore the specificities of different media, technologies and actions to (re)mediate the narratives that traverse a given situation.

A founding member and artistic director of Qaggiavuut until 2021, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is also a curator, sculptural artist, actress, stage director, and poet.

Tania Willard, Secwepemc Nation, works within the shifting ideas of contemporary and traditional as it relates to cultural arts and production.

Sorel Cohen lives and works in Montreal. A graduate from McGill and Concordia universities, she has been a major figure on the Canadian photography scene for over twenty years…

Costa Rica–born Juan Ortiz-Apuy has lived and worked in Montreal since 2003. Working in his favoured techniques of collage and assemblage, he makes art driven by thinking around consumer goods.

Diane Landry lives and works in Quebec City. She produces installation and performance works influenced by readymade and her preoccupation with recycling.

Working as a duo with Richard Ibghy since 2002, Marilou Lemmens creates installations, videos, sculptures, photographs and artists’ books.

Art critic, curator, communication theorist and translator, of German origin, Bernard Schütze has lived and worked in Montreal since 1985.

Erik Bordeleau is a philosopher, curator, fugitive planner and cultural theorist. He works as a researcher at NOVA University in Lisbon and is also affiliated researcher at the Art, Business and Culture Center of Stockholm School of Economics.

François Lemieux makes books and exhibitions. His practice aims to prompt collective thinking about the notions of power, value, and the relationship to the norm.

Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill (b. 1979) is a Métis artist and writer. Hill’s sculptural practice explores the history of found materials to enquire into concepts of land, property, and economy.

My name is arkadi lavoie lachapelle. I was born the same year as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Polytechnique massacre in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal.

Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, writer and filmmaker. Her research examines the historical advance of speculative activity and its derivative politics in art, urban life, and finance and economics.

Anne-Marie Proulx creates poetic worlds drawing on our conversations with the land and our relationship with language. She works with images, mainly photographic, to question the physical and metaphorical spaces that we occupy and which conversely also inhabit us.

Sanaz Sohrabi (b.1988, Tehran) is a research-based artist, filmmaker, and essayist living between Montreal and Chicago.

Mathieu Cardin (born Matthew Carden in Agloe, U.S.A.) displayed outstanding skills in combat sports, gymnastics and theatre from an early age. These youthful pursuits left him with…

Alexandra Lemay is an art director, fabricator, and stop-motion animation filmmaker who immerses herself in all things pop culture. 

Angela Grauerholz was born in Hamburg, Germany, and has lived in Montreal since 1976. She has been teaching at UQAM’s École de design since 1988. She is a co-founder of Artexte, a contemporary art information…

Joi T. Arcand is an artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation whose practice includes installation, photography and design.

David Tomas was a Canadian artist and anthropologist

Matt Donovan and Hallie Siegel are a Toronto-based arts collaborative who explore the hopes and anxieties brought about by major technological disruptions.

Kelly Mark is a conceptual artist based in Toronto. She explores a variety of mediums, such as drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, sound, performance, and public interventions.

Judith Poirier is a designer and professor at the École de Design, UQAM. Her work primarily focuses on experimental typography in the fields of publishing and animation.

karen elaine spencer is an artist and curator committed to performance, action art, paintings, drawings, prints, texts and spoken word.

Alexandre Larose is an artist of the moving image. His interest lies in the representation of space and the figure, and the way in which the cinematographic medium sets them in motion.

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Skawennati, _Becoming the Peacemaker (Kahentéhshon)_, machinimagraph from _The Peacemaker Returns_, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

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Skawennati, _The Peacemaker Returns_, still, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

Skawennati, The Peacemaker Returns, still, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

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Skawennati, _Tadodaho_, machinimagraph from _The Peacemaker Returns_, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

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Skawennati, _Kahentéhshon at the White House_, machinimagraph from _The Peacemaker Returns_, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

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_The Peacemaker Returns_, is a futuristic saga set in 3025 yet firmly rooted in the ancestral Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederation story and featuring historical figures such as Tekanawí:ta, Jacques Cartier, and a president addicted to Twitter! This new machinima–an animation-style movie produced on the virtual reality platform Second Life–is the core of the children’s exhibition, designed specifically for kids aged 5 to 11 by Skawennati. Audiences of all ages are invited to (re)discover some traditions in the artist’s « museum of the future, » an original installation.
 
 
## Specification sheet

Space required: minimum space required : 80 m² (860 ft²) 
Availability: starting September 2018 
Languages: English and French

#Components - exhibition
— _The Peacemaker Returns_, 2017, Machinima, sound, 18 min 38 s 
— _Wampums_, 2017, Leather, sinew, beads 
— Backlit plinths for wampums 
— LED light aluminum structure (height: 2,75 m) x (width: 2,9 m) 
x (length: 4,9 m) 
— Cushions 

#Components - education 
— Family booklet 
— Game cylinders for interactive workshop 
— Pre- and post-visit document for teachers 
— Scenario for the visit and the workshop 
— Video tutorials for the training of educators

[**See the exhibition at VOX** ](https://centre-vox.vercel.app/en/exhibitions/skawennati-teiakwanahstahsontehrha-we-extend-the-rafters)   
Photo: Michel Brunelle, 2021. 

**This exhibition was produced in 2017 by VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine in partnership with [Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC)](http://www.abtec.org/) and [Obx Labs](http://www.obxlabs.net/), with financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Quebec Ministry of Culture and Communications and the City of Montreal under the Agreement on the Cultural Development of Montreal, as well as the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th.**

Touring document Skawennati. We Extend the Rafters

Skawennati_Touring_Doc.pdf

We Extend the Rafters exhibition visit family booklet.

Skawennati_FAMILY BOOKLET_INFO_ENG.pdf

Teacher's preparatory document for the exhibition Skawennati. We Extend the Rafters

Skawennati_Prep_doc.pdf

Teacher's extension activity for the exhibition Skawennati. We Extend the Rafters

Skawennati_ActPro_ENG.pdf

Sollicitation document for school groups visits of Skawennati. We Extend the Rafters

Skawennati_Sollicitation_ENG.pdf

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**Tour schedule** 
**This exhibition is not available for touring anymore.**

September 28, 2023 to January 7, 2024* 
Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, Québec 
 
February 11 to May 7, 2023* 
Chimczuk Museum, Windsor, Ontario 
 
May 8 to July 25, 2021* 
Evergreen Gallery, Coquitlam, British Columbia 
 
December 17, 2020 to February 26, 2021* 
ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon 
 
September 21 to November 1, 2020* 
The Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario 
 
September 6 to December 6, 2019* 
Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario 
 
March 16 to May 5, 2019* 
Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia 
 
August 4, 2018 to January 21, 2019 
Seneca Iroquois National Museum, Salamanca, United States 
 
April 18 to May 19, 2018 
Axenéo7, Gatineau, Québec 
 
***This presentation benefits from the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. **

_Le retour du Pacificateur_, est une saga futuriste campée en 3025 qui puise ses racines jusqu’au récit fondateur de la Confédération Haudenosaunee (iroquoise), mettant en vedette des figures historiques telles que Tekanawí:ta, Jacques Cartier et un président accro à Twitter ! 

Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | Nous tendons les perches en tournée 

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_The Peacemaker Returns_, is a futuristic saga set in 3025 yet firmly rooted in the ancestral Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederation story and featuring historical figures such as Tekanawí:ta, Jacques Cartier, and a president addicted to Twitter! 

Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | We Extend the Rafters

Touring   
Skawennati  
Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’   
We Extend the Rafters

View of the exhibition _Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | We Extend the Rafters_, VOX, from October 28, 2017 to January 27, 2018.

View of the exhibition _Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | We Extend the Rafters_, VOX, 2018.

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Workshop in the exhibition _Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | We Extend the Rafters_, VOX, from October 28, 2017 to January 27, 2018.

Mediation activity in the exhibition _Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha', We Extend the Rafters_, VOX, 2017. Photo: Michel Bunelle. 

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Guided tour of the exhibition _Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | We Extend the Rafters_, VOX, from October 28, 2017 to January 27, 2018\. Credit: Michel Brunelle.

Guided tour of the exhibition _Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | We Extend the Rafters_, VOX, from October 28, 2017 to January 27, 2018.

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Guided tour during the exhibition _Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | We Extend the Rafters_, VOX, from October 28, 2017 to January 27, 2018.

Guided tour during the exhibition _Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | We Extend the Rafters_, VOX, 2017.

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View of the exhibition _Skawennati. Teiakwanahstahsontéhrha’ | We Extend the Rafters_, VOX, from October 28, 2017 to January 27, 2018

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