October 14 – October 28 2025
Sound Studies Gallery, 3-47 Arts Building
10:00 – 5:00 Monday – Friday
The Three Strands project is intended to be three parts to echo a three strand braid. Braids hold cultural significance as symbols of strength, wisdom, and honouring ancestors. Through this project I explore the strength in survival of Indigenous women through the lens of Indigenous feminist theory. Storytelling is a vital element of nehiyaw culture and oral history and video/ performance art is a method of telling contemporary stories to reinforce the reality that Indigenous people still exist, and that we are more than the stereotype that many settler people see us as. I use video and sound as a vehicle for the revitalization and reclamation of ancestral languages and for stories to be told from a larger perspective. The Three Strands uses the stories and poetry of Indigenous women from various walks of life and were derived from collaborative interviews and discussions. Some of the interviews are translated into nehiyawewin (Cree y-Dialect) while the other stories are told simultaneously in the English language. Alongside these spoken stories and feelings are the sound of tin and aluminum cones, such as would be used on women’s jingle dress regalia, or the sounds of the Earth.
Natesa Medlicott-Kappo is an emerging Nehiyaw artist and Indigenous rights activist from Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 8 Territory Alberta. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and is currently the artist in residence at Arts Habitat Edmonton.
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