Sustaining Apertures: A Black and Indigenous Design Collective Panel Conversation

A conversation between Black Indigenous Design Collective (BIDC) collaborators Lys Divine Ndemeye, Sierra Tasi Baker and Krystal Paraboo, moderated by Sara Stevens.

Together BIDC discuss place-based installation and design in contemporary art, architecture, and community planning as it relates to the Lys Divine Ndemeye and Colin Berg Mbugua exhibition ‘Sustaining Apertures’ on view at Or Gallery from March 7 – July 6, 2024. The conversation engages in the exhibition’s principles of social and environmental justice with a focus on botanical resistance, listening to plants, new visions for public art, and what decolonization means to the collaborators themselves.

This is an exert of the conversation recorded Saturday, June 15, 2024, at the Urbanarium Studio on Granville Island, co-sponsored by Or Gallery and Urbanarium.

Organized by: Urbanarium, Or Gallery

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