Geronimo Inutiq: Performance and Roundtable discussions

Round Table Discussion – I Am Calling Home
By Geronimo Inutiq
Feb 16 @2 pm – NAISA North Media Arts Centre, South River
Feb 16 @8 pm – Digital Creator Lab, North Bay (access from rear entrance of Capitol Centre)
Cost: FREE

Contribute your voice to an ongoing conversation about Home in the north. NAISA guest artist Geronimo Inutiq leads the conversation during two round table discussions that are taking place on Feb 16 at NAISA in South River at 2 pm and at the Digital Creator Lab in North Bay at 8 pm. Inutiq asks for you to consider how the experience of home is shaped by the natural environment in the north. How do these notions of home transform in more populated regions of Canada located further south? The discussions will be primarily in English, but participants are welcome to share their stories and perspectives in French or Inuktitut as well.

Discussions will be recorded and re-mixed in Geronimo Inutiq’s radio art performance at the NAISA North Media Arts Centre on Feb 18 at 7 PM EST which will be remotely broadcast on Shabogesic Beach on Lake Nipissing at the Ice Follies site or to your personal device as online audio on NAISA Radio.

Inutiq’s appearance is part of NAISA’s Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art and is supported in part by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Thank you to Digital Creator Lab and Ice Follies Festival in North Bay for their support of the North Bay events in this project.

Uvattini Uqaalajunga – J’ Appel chez nous – I Am Calling Home
By Geronimo Inutiq

February 18, 2023, 7:00 pm

Performance at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River. Audio stream at NAISA Radio and broadcast outdoors at Ice Follies site at Shabogesic Beach, North Bay.

General $12, in-person tickets here. Free for broadcast.

Geronimo Inutiq will be in residence for the Deep Wireless Festival to create a new commissioned radio art performance based on his ongoing project “Uvattini Uqaalajunga – J’ Appel chez nous – I Am Calling Home.” The performance can be experienced live in three different ways. As an in-person performance at NAISA in South River, as a digital audio broadcast on NAISA Radio, and as a sited audio broadcast at Ice Follies.

The project was initiated by Geronimo Inutiq during a residency with the SAW Nordic Lab in 2020 and has evolved into an installation for the Canadian Centre for Architecture and also into a virtual broadcaster that transmits a community show in three languages – English, French, and Inuktitut. All of these have weaved together experiences of living in the north from multiple cultural perspectives.

The content of his performance at Deep Wireless will remix voices recorded at round table discussions on Feb 16 at 2 pm at NAISA in South River and 8 pm at the Digital Creator Lab in North Bay. The round table discussions will explore how notions of home are shaped by natural environments and how these are different across different regions and cultures in the Canadian North.

Inutiq’s appearance is part of NAISA’s Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art and is supported in part by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Thank you to Digital Creator Lab and Ice Follies Festival in North Bay for their support of the North Bay events in this project. Photo by Robert Geoffrion.