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Njootli’s lecture focusses on residue, performance, sound and the land. This includes her involvement with ReMatriate Collective, her work as a Cultural Tattoo Practitioner, and as a performance artist.
Jeneen Frei Njootli is a Vuntut Gwitchin artist and co-creator of the ReMatriate collective. She sits on the board of directors for Vancouver’s grunt gallery and is part of Our Voices Collective in Whitehorse, Yukon. In 2012, she graduated from Emily Carr University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and went on to a Visual Art Studio Work Study position at The Banff Centre, followed by two thematic residencies there. She is working towards completing her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of British Columbia as an uninvited guest on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, Sto:lo and Tsleil-Waututh territories. In 2016, she was nominated by Candice Hopkins and named one of the recipients of a William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Canadian Artists.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca