Review

Alaina Perez is an artist, writer, researcher, and MFA student in the Individualized Program at Concordia University. She is a member
of the Tahltan Nation and was raised in Vancouver, BC, on unceded Sḵwxwú7mesh, Sto:lo, and s ̱ əlilwətaɬ and xwməθkwəy̓əm territory.

In _C Magazine_’s 40th year of publication, the writing and visual projects in this issue form an almanac in themselves, out of the impulse to make meaning out of the present state of contemporary art and liberatory organizing. As contributors find grounding in celestial time, ancestors, the stakes of censorship, the choreography of movement building, AI incantations, and more, we express almanacs as projects of persistence between past, present, and future—and even of spell-casting.

In C Magazine’s 40th year of publication, the writing and visual projects in this issue form an almanac in themselves, out of the impulse to make meaning out of the present state of contemporary art and liberatory organizing. As contributors find grounding in celestial time, ancestors, the stakes of censorship, the choreography of movement building, AI incantations, and more, we express almanacs as projects of persistence between past, present, and future—and even of spell-casting.

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“Creation Stories” featured artwork by Eruoma Awashish, Kaylyn Baker, Haley Bassett, Jordan Bennett, Alison Bremner, Christian Chapman, Craig Commanda, Renée Condo, seth cardinal dodginghorse, Tarralik Duffy, Marcy Friesen, tīná gúyáńí, Jay Havens, Cora Kavyaktok, Uumati Kisoun-Inuarak, Corey Larocque, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Maria-Margaretta, Calvin Morberg, Meagan Musseau, Lisa Myers, Melaw Nakehk’o, Luke Parnell, Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, Shane Perley-Dutcher, Melissa Peter-Paul, Jobena Petonoquot, Sandra Racine, Natasha Sacobie, Heather Shillinglaw, Jason Sikoak, Michelle Sound, and Alan Syliboy, and ran from 4 May to 22 June 2024 at Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone/Contemporary Native Art Biennial, Art Mûr, Montreal.

“Creation Stories” at the 7th Contemporary Native Art Biennial

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