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agency is the latest collaboration by parent-child duo tīná gúyáńí, comprised of Glenna Cardinal and seth cardinal dodginghorse. It chronicles the loss of their ancestral home in tsuut’ina nation due to a land transfer agreement for the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. Their forced removal serves as the backdrop for an exploration of land, displacement, and reclamation through healing.
With film, music and visual arts, the pair critique colonial institutions that continue to destroy matrilineal homes, dividing families and communities. Through a heartfelt tribute to their land/home, and kinship, this exhibition envisions a new kind of agency: one that is self-determined, non-colonial, and non-patriarchal.
Opening : March 6th, 2025 at 5pm
Free entrance — Tuesday to Saturday from 12pm to 6pm.
→ Guided tour in ASL and LSQ + English
March 22nd 2025 — 2pm to 4pm
Free — Registration required
Cultural mediators Dominique Ireland and Caroline Hould offer a tandem tour of the exhibition agency. Offered entirely in ASL and LSQ, the tour focuses on the journey of mother-child artist duo Glenna Cardinal and seth cardinal dodginghorse, and then on each of the works presented in the exhibition. A self-determined, non-colonial, non-patriarchal and non-audiocentric tour.
ABOUT+
tīná gúyáńí (deer road) is an artist collective from guts’ists’i (Calgary) consisting of parent/child duo Glenna Cardinal (Tsuut’ina/Saddle Lake Cree) and seth cardinal dodginghorse (Tsuut’ina/Amskapi Piikani/Saddle Lake Cree). In 2014, they were forcibly removed from their homes and ancestral land on the Tsuut’ina Nation, for construction of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. Their multidisciplinary practice honors their connection to land and explores the effects of environmental /psychological damage. tīná gúyáńí’s work is deeply based in culture, language, oral history, family photographs, and museum/archival research. Their art is an act of cultural preservation and a protest against ongoing settler colonialism.
Credits+
Artists: Glenna Cardinal + seth cardinal dodginghorse