<h3>Goethe Pop Up Seattle and Northwest Film Forum present a program of film and video work by Krista Belle Stewart, a Berlin-based artist and member of the Syilx Nation, in conjunction with Stewart’s exhibition <a href="https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/gps/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&amp;event_id=22516644" target="_blank">Truth to Material</a>&nbsp;currently on display at Goethe Pop Up. Co-presented with Henry Art Gallery.</h3> This program is best viewed in conversation with Krista Belle Stewart's visual art.&nbsp;Your ticket also&nbsp;entitles you to a special tour&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/gps/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&amp;event_id=22516644" target="_blank">Krista Belle Stewart:&nbsp;Truth to Material</a>,&nbsp;directly before the screening, with curator Martin Schwartz. To join, please arrive at Goethe&nbsp;Pop Up Seattle&nbsp;at 6 p.m. on February 9. The Pop Up is located one block away from NWFF, at 1424 11th Ave, Suite 101, in Chophouse Row. Please bring proof of vaccination and ID. If you prefer to see the program at NWFF, please register to attend <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5352818" target="_blank">IN-PERSON</a>.

Screening (2015. HD video, stereo, colour, 38’57”) In Seraphine, Seraphine, Krista Belle Stewart interrogates and expands the public record of the artist’s mother, Seraphine Stewart, British Columbia’s first Indigenous public health nurse. Next to and juxtaposed with a generally sympathetic but fictionalized 1967 CBC docu-drama on Seraphine Stewart, the film shows filmed testimony Seraphine Stewart gave in 2013 to a Vancouver Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing. The CBC film gives a version of the elder Stewart’s story in a scripted voiceover, while in her testimony, she narrates aspects of her own experience, from her childhood partly spent in residential schooling on, unmediated by outsiders. Bringing these ways of telling into contact and conflict, in this film work, Krista Belle Stewart underlines issues of agency and authenticity in representations of her family, and challenges audiences to recognize and counteract colonial structures in archival and media practices. Additional Resources:International Studio &amp; Curatorial Program:&nbsp;<a href="https://iscp-nyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Concrete-Truth_Art-and-the-Documentary_Exhibition-Catalog.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CONCRETE TRUTH: ART AND THE DOCUMENTARY</a>Haus der Kulturen der Welt: <a href="https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_133688.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bodies of Fact: The Archive from Witness to Voice</a>

Seraphine, Seraphine

In Seraphine, Seraphine, Krista Belle Stewart interrogates and expands the public record of the artist’s mother, Seraphine Stewart, British Columbia’s first Indigenous public health nurse.

Presentation (2018. HD video, stereo, colour, 23’) **&nbsp;Please note that this presentation of Potato Gardens Band takes place in conversation with Krista Belle Stewart’s artistic work, including the iteration of Truth to Material currently installed at Goethe Pop Up Seattle. ** “Krista Belle Stewart’s ongoing project Potato Gardens Band has evoked critical questions regarding the nature of cultural ownership, archives, and truth itself. Each of the three iterations in this series, have incorporated the singing voice of Stewart’s great-grandmother, which was in 1918 recorded on wax cylinders by the anthropologist James Alexander Teit.&nbsp;Along with this ancestral voice, came jaw harp and tin whistle music, performed by the elder woman’s group, the ‘Potato Gardens Band.’ Over consecutive iterations, Stewart and her collaborators have widened the scope of the complex ancestral dialogue enabled by those recordings. The piece has thus become a fluctuating incantation, of intersecting personal, familial, and cultural memories. “The final iteration of Potato Gardens Band, video from which is shown in this presentation, took place in 2018 between Stewart’s Spaxomin land and Vancouver’s 221A gallery. Asked to stage a performance, Stewart transmitted a live feed, from her phone, of a speaker system playing her great-grandmother’s recording, on her ancestral land. This performance expressed kinship between individual and ancestral pasts. But crucially, it also constituted a gesture of refusal, directed at the expectation that one’s history and trauma be reified into a cultural commodity, within the neo-colonial industry. The piece’s power lies in this equivocal negation.” (From the artist’s website) Additional Resources:ArtPapers: <a href="https://www.artpapers.org/inaudibility-krista-belle-stewarts-sonic-repatriation-of-knowledge/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Inaudibility: Krista Belle Stewart’s Sonic Repatriation of Knowledge</a>Hessel Museum of Art: <a href="https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/526-this-is-the-no-thing-that-we-are" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this is the no thing that we are</a>

Potato Gardens Band (Spaxomin version)

The final iteration of Potato Gardens Band, video from which is shown in this presentation, took place in 2018 between Stewart’s Spaxomin land and Vancouver’s 221A gallery. Asked to stage a performance, Stewart transmitted a live feed, from her phone, of a speaker system playing her great-grandmother’s recording, on her ancestral land.

This program includes a special Q&amp;A with the artist, recorded in conjunction with the screening of her films at Northwest Film Forum and the presentation of her exhibition “Truth to Material” at Goethe Pop Up Seattle.

Q&A: Krista Belle Stewart

A special Q&A with the artist, recorded in conjunction with the screening of her films at Northwest Film Forum and the presentation of her exhibition “Truth to Material” at Goethe Pop Up Seattle.

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