Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series with Cease Wyss: 'Decolonial Love'

Date: Wed, Mar 19 @ 7:00 PM

Location Max Bell Auditorium

Optional Smudge at 6:45 PM

Free. Register in advance.
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Age Restrictions

Ages 14 and Over

Dr T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss

Join us for an insightful conversation with Dr. T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss as part of the Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series. In this session titled Decolonial Love, Wyss will explore how love is a guiding force in their 30+ years of interdisciplinary practice. Through a deep connection to land-based knowledge, digital media, and storytelling, Wyss weaves love into their work—whether through the gifts of the land, the act of sharing stories, or the ways creative practice can encourage love to grow in everyday life.

Facilitated by Janine Windolph, Director of Indigenous Arts at Banff Centre, the session includes a presentation by Wyss followed by a discussion and a Q&A. This conversation will be recorded and shared following the event, but the Q&A portion will remain unrecorded. Sessions may share experiences and ask difficult questions.

About the Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series

The Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series is a bi-monthly conversation session inviting leading Indigenous Art creators to discuss their practices and processes. The series engages an Indigenous lens across various art forms, including Literary Arts, Film and Media Arts, Digital Media, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts such as Theatre, Dance, and Music. These sessions offer a space to explore and deepen your understanding of how Indigenous artists use their disciplines as tools to decolonize artistic processes and creation.

Visit the Decolonizing the Narrative Conversation Series page to access recordings of previous talks and learn more about upcoming sessions.

Biography

Dr T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh/Sto:Lo/Hawaiian/Swiss

Dr T'uy't'tanat- Cease Wyss is an interdisciplinary artist who works with digital media, writing, performance and land based remediations as her multidisciplinary arts practice. She is a community engaged and public artist, Indigi-Futurisms developer/artist, land based artist and ethnobotanist/permaculture designer.

She is currently expanding on her research with wild mushrooms as not only a means for remediation of soil areas damaged by industry, colonialism, and other toxic waste, but as means of healing our bodies, minds, spirits and to go further and expand in to bringing their healing sounds out through biosonification through modular synthesizers. Wyss is working on bridging the languages of plants and mushroom as well as other forms of fungi, with indigenous languages and creating conversations between them all.

Her works range over 30+ years and have always focused on sustainability, permaculture techniques, Coast Salish Cultural elements and have included themes of ethnobotany, indigenous language revival, Salish weaving and digital media technology.

In 2022 Cease was awarded an honorary PhD from ECUAD and was also awarded the MST [Musqueam/Skwxwu7mesh/Tseil watuth: aka Skwxwú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəyə̓ m, and səlí̓lwətaʔɬ Lands WatersSkwxwú7mesh Uxi̱mixw̱ '] AiR fieldhouse in Stanley Park for the next 3 years. She will be infusing all elements of her diverse practice into this time spent reconnecting to her ancestors whose spirits remain a part of this forest and shoreline.