Performance happening at Maine Audubon
20 Gilsland Farm Audubon Center in Falmouth, Maine, 04105
Free; registration encouraged
The PMA is excited to welcome Mi’kmaw artist Meagan Musseau for a special performance in conjunction with her sculptures that are on view in the North Atlantic Triennial. In her sculptural works, she explores a history of interterritorial relationships between Mi’kmaq and Beothuk nations on Ktaqmkuk territory as a way to enact Indigenous survivance.
Becomes Body of Water is a land-based performance originally created in the region of Elmastukwek, at the base of the Blomidon Mountains, NL. Musseau patiently braids long strands of grey fabric and neon green tulle. The strands are tied to rocks and buried in the ground. She activates the strands within the landscape—braiding the past and present while moving towards a future. This is an embodied practice. Interweaving movement and endurance within the environment to generate an ephemeral expression. Imagining the deeper relationship that our presence on the land has with the cosmos.
The new iteration of Becomes Body of Water is taking place within the Wabanaki homelands of Maine.
Meagan Musseau (Mi’kmaq, born 1990), becomes body of water interwoven with territories beyond the sky, 2019. Film stills. © Meagan Musseau. Image courtesy of the artist.
Meagan Musseau Meagan Musseau (b. 1990) is L’nu (Mi’kmaw) from Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk territory (Bay of Islands, western Newfoundland). She nourishes an interdisciplinary arts practice by working with customary art forms and new media, such as basketry, beadwork, land based performance, video, and installation. In 2014, she graduated with a BFA from Grenfell Campus Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Corner Brook, Canada.
