T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss
T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss is a Skwxwú7mesh, Stó:lō, Kanaka Maoli, Irish-Métis and Swiss multi-media artist, and ethnobotanist[1]. She has been working with new media, performance and interdisciplinary arts[2] for more than 30 years[3]. Wyss also works with ancient techniques such as weaving, using indigenous plants for dyes, and focusing on a textiles art practice in wool cedar[4]. Wyss is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast, is a beekeeper and community-engaged gardener in East Vancouver[5].
Career
Wyss recently co-authored Journey to Kaho'olawe[6], covering more than two centuries of the Kanaka family's migration to the Pacific Northwest coast. She was also a recipient of the City of Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for film and new media in 2010[7]. Wyss is also a participant of the Vancouver Biennale 2016[8].
Selected Works and Exhibitions
Transits and Returns, Vancouver Art Gallery (2019-20)
Shḵwen̓ Wéw̓ shḵem Nexw7iy̓ay̓ulh (To Explore, To Travel by Canoe) (2018) is a sculptural work that consists of a ceremonial cape, photographs and materials such as Lau hala, coconut hull fibre, seagrass, red cedar bark, wool, abalone shell, mother of pearl buttons that are used by makers from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Hawaiian territories[9].
A Constellation of Remediation (2017-19)
A Constellation of Remediation is a collaborative two-year long public art project that is on vacant and untended lots of the unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Wyss and Anne Riley plants indigenous remediation gardens on specific sites based on decolonization work near locations through the Native Education College (NEC), Urban Native Youth Association (UNYA), and the Wild Salmon Caravan Residency and Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty. The process involved communication with developers, City and Parks staff, and the public which all built a connection to shift consciousness and awareness about bioremediation, land-stewardship, and reconciliation[10].
Other works
- Spill: Response (2019)
- IM4 Indigenous VR Speaker Series (2019)
- Vancouver Queer Arts Festival (2017)
- Vancouver Biennale (2016)
- ReMatriation and other ruminations, thirstDays, VIVO (2016)
- The Gifting Taiontenonhwera:ton (to give thanks) Ceremonial Activism 101: thirstDays, VIVO (2016)
- Spark: Fireside Artists Talk Grunt Gallery & Native Education College (2016)
- The Picto Prophecy Project Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (2012)
- Soul Gardens with W2 Community Media Arts (2011)
- Talking Poles (2009) for the Surrey public art collection
References
- ↑ Johns, Jessica. "Indigenous World-Building at the Vancouver Art Gallery". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ↑ "Cease Wyss". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ↑ Rajme, Oscar Domingo. "T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ↑ "Cease Wyss". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ↑ "Cease Wyss". Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ↑ Winkler, Hans, 1955-. Journey to Kaho'olawe. T'uy't'tanat - Cease Wyss,, Barman, Jean,, Alteen, Glen,, Watson, Bruce McIntyre,. Vancouver, BC. ISBN 978-1-988708-02-7. OCLC 1013542832.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Library News | Vancouver Public Library". www.vpl.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ↑ Us, Contact; Media; Sponsors; Policy, Privacy. "Cease Wyss - Vancouver Biennale". Retrieved 2020-03-09.
{{cite web}}:|last4=has generic name (help) - ↑ Johns, Jessica. "Indigenous World-Building at the Vancouver Art Gallery". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
- ↑ Vancouver, City of. "A Constellation of Remediation". vancouver.ca. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
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