Join Gerald McMaster and Postcommodity at Time Holds All The Answers Opening Celebration

September 16th, 2021 at 7PM (CST)

On September 16 at 7:00PM (CST), please join Gerald McMaster and Postcommodity collective comprised of Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. at Remai Modern for the celebration of the new exhibition – Time Holds All the Answers. The artists and exhibition curator, Gerald McMaster, will be in attendance. 

Remai Modern doors open at 7:00 PM and the program begins at 7:15 PM in the Riverview Room on Level 2. Admission is by donation. The evening will include a welcome from Elder Linda Young, featured dancers Teresa, Qwylynne, Qwliya, Qwaylin and Bluejay Linklater, and live performances by Michel Boutin and Postcommodity. 

Followed by a reception with DJ and cash bar on Level 3. 

Opening events will continue on Saturday, September 18, with an artists’ talk – Postcommodity in Conversation with Gerald McMaster – and visit to Wanuskewin Heritage Park.

Time Holds All the Answers | Exhibition at a Glance

Curated by Dr. Gerald McMaster and hosted by Remai Modern in Saskatoon, Time Holds All the Answers is Postcommodity’s most significant museum exhibition to date. In addition to two of Remai Modern’s largest gallery spaces, works will be featured throughout the building. With a selection of new pieces created for the occasion, the exhibition includes architecturally-scaled sculpture and immersive multimedia installations that incorporate sound and text. The exhibition touches on subjects including resource extraction and land use, toxicity and containment, intersections of the global market with human elders, translation across Indigenous and colonial languages, and the mythologies of modern art and architecture.

Postcommodity create works of art that personify a shared Indigenous lens and voice, examining aspects of 21st-century life to inspire a uniquely Indigenous futurism. Using provocation as a tool, they spark constructive conversations that challenge the social, political and economic processes that destabilize communities and geographies.

Artists and Curatorial Team

Cristóbal Martínez is a Mestizo artist, scholar and Chair of the Art and Technology Program at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2003 he co-founded the artist-hacker performance ensemble Radio Healer, and in 2009 he began working as a member of Postcommodity. In 2018 he co-created, with post-Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo, the experimental electronic music duet Red Culebra. Martínez has dedicated his life and career to interdisciplinary collaboration in contemporary art.

Kade L. Twist is a member of the Cherokee Nation and grew up in Bakersfield, California, home to one of the largest Cherokee communities in the U.S. Twist is a co-founding member of Postcommodity, and a professor in Art + Social Practice at Otis College of Art, Los Angeles. In addition to his art practice, Twist works as a public affairs consultant specializing in American Indian health care, technology and community development.

Gerald McMaster is a leading voice nationally and internationally, with over 30 years of experience in contemporary art, critical theory, museology and Indigenous aesthetics. He is Plains Cree from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation and a member of the Siksika Nation. He served as the Canadian Commissioner for the 1995 Venice Biennale, Artistic Director of the 2012 Biennale of Sydney; and Curator for the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture. McMaster has served as Adjunct Curator for Remai Modern since 2018. He is a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair and Director of Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge at OCAD University in Toronto.

Time Holds All the Answers is supported at Wapatah by: 

Gerald McMaster

Michael Rattray 

Natalja Chestopalova

Panya Clark Espinal

Alessia Pignotti

Brittany Pitseolak Bergin

Mariah Meawasige

Time Holds All the Answers is coordinated at Remai Modern by: 

Rose Bouthillier, Curator (Exhibitions) at Remai Modern

Donald Roach, Exhibitions Manager at Remai Modern

Emily Dunseith, Registrar (Exhibitions) at Remai Modern

Troy Mamer, Programs Assistant (Curatorial) at Remai Modern

Jason Hosaluk, Preparator at Remai Modern

Chad Redl, Preparator at Remai Modern

Darren McQuay, Preparator at Remai Modern

Cameron McKay, Preparator at Remai Modern

Paul Atkins, Preparator at Remai Modern

Ian Rawlison, Preparator at Remai Modern

Image Caption: Postcommodity, Let Us Pray For the Water Between Us, 2020, 2,200-gallon polyethylene hazmat chemical storage container, brushless linear motor, leather mallet, wood, steel, aircraft cable, algorithmic composition. Originally commissioned by Minneapolis Institute of Art. Installation view, Time Holds All the Answers, Remai Modern, 2021. Photo: Carey Shaw.