Ange Loft
Ange Loft | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kanien'kehá:ka Kahnawà:ke, Canada |
| Known for | Performance art, visual art |
| Awards | Living Lands Fellowship, Canadian Centre for Architecture Indigenous Artist Award, Toronto Arts Foundation |
| Website | www |
Ange Loft is a Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) Canadian interdisciplinary performing artist who is from Kanien'kehá:ka Kahnawà:ke, Canada.[1] She lives in Tsi Tkarón:to (Toronto), Canada.[2]
Career
[edit]Loft's arts-based research projects, collaborations and theatrical co-creations with other artists use voice, instrumentation and wearable sculpture to explore Haudenosaunee history and produce community-engaged spectacles.[3]
Her work has been presented internationally with Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, a no-wave music and performance collective that acts as an "interpreter of Indigenous-lead theatrical narrative, experimental composition and performance."[4] Her installation and video work with the Jumblies Theater incorporated objects and materials, including kettles, hats, rum and flannel cloth that the British gave to the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation people in the Toronto Purchase to buy their ancestral lands.[5]
Loft has exhibited her work in the Toronto Biennial of Art at Arsenal Contemporary Art[6] and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, among other venues.[7][8]
The Canadian Centre for Architecture invited Loft as the inaugural Research Fellow for Indigenous researchers, to develop work on land restitution in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, resulting in an installation, Visibly Iroquoian, dealing with Indigenous presence, relationality and place-making.[9][10]
She has worked as an advisor the to Toronto Biennial to develop the Toronto Indigeous Context Brief, a document on land acknowledgment that carefully considers place-and-space, land, geographic boundaries and historical land-use in Toronto.[11][5]
Loft teaches at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto. In 2018, she worked with the City of Toronto to establish the Indigenous Arts and Culture Partnership Fund.[12] She also directs the Talking Treaties Initiative of the Jumblies Theatre, where she is also the associate artistic director.[13]
Awards and honors
[edit]In 2021–2022, Loft received a biennial fellowship from Living Lands in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Architecture.[14][15] In 2023 she received the Toronto Arts Foundation's Indigenous Artist Award.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nuit Blanche exhibition brings us back to the 60s". The Eastern Door (Kahnewake newspaper). 3 March 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ Deer, Ka'nhehsí:io (7 May 2021). "Meet the Kanien'kehá:ka artists behind the Talking Treaties Tio'tia:ke Collective". CBC News. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Ange Loft named Recipient of $20,000 Toronto Arts Foundation Indigenous Artist Award". Toronto Arts Foundation. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Ange Loft". Ange Loft's website. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ a b Durón, Maximilíano (23 March 2022). "Can Land and Water Be Archives? A Pandemic-Era Toronto Biennial Mines the Histories Beneath Our Feet". ARTnews. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Toronto Biennial of Art". Mutual Art. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Ange Loft: A foreign source of extraordinary power". Mutal Art. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Ange Loft: A foreign source of extraordinary power". Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "The CCA presents a new installation by performance artist Ange Loft". Canadian Architect. 30 March 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Visibly Iroquoian". Canadian Centre for Architecture. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ Hopkins, Candice; Shamoon, Ilana; Nixon, Lindsay; Loft, Ange (22 August 2019). "A New Kind of Land Acknowledgement". Canadian Art. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Ange Loft". Centre for Indigenous Theatre. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Ange Loft". Independent Curators International. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ Rao, Anjulie (17 October 2022). "At CCA, a Land-Acknowledgment Working Group Bolsters Ties with Indigenous Communities". Architect Magazine. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Living Lands". Canadian Centre for Architecture. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
External links
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- Artists from Quebec
- Canadian Mohawk women artists
- Canadian performance artists
- 21st-century Canadian women artists
- 21st-century Canadian women educators
- First Nations performance artists
- Living people
- Mohawks of Kahnawá:ke people
- People from Montérégie
- 21st-century First Nations people
- 21st-century Canadian educators