Virtual Fireside with Lyndon J. Linklater and Gerald McMaster at Remai Modern

September 14th, 2021 at 7:00PM (CST)

On September 14 at 7:00PM (CST), please join Remai Modern’s Lyndon J. Linklater for an online virtual episode of Fireside with Gerald McMaster. Please register for this event by clicking here. Fireside is an event series for community gathering and discussion, hosted by Lyndon J. Linklater and free to attend. 

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.

Lyndon J. Linklater is a traditional Knowledge Keeper and storyteller. He is a citizen of the Thunderchild First Nation (Plains Cree) in Treaty 6 and has roots in Couchiching First Nation (Fort Francis, Ontario) in Treaty 3. He is a powerful storyteller that utilizes First Nation teachings that involve knowledge of ceremonies and mixes humor to deliver a poignant message. At the Remai Modern museum he works as the Indigenous Relations Advisor providing advice to their board and staff and delivering cultural programming. Since he was appointed for the Office of the Treaty Commissioner as a Speakers’ Bureau member in 2000, he has spoken to well over 50,000 people, delivering awareness and enlightenment on Treaty and First Nation worldview.

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 deploy a creative methodology of hacking, intentionally breaking predetermined products or structures in order to modify their original use and inspire alternative outcomes. In practice, hacking undoes, reimagines and resets. How can this be accomplished? Using art as a wedge, Postcommodity inject Indigenous Knowledge Systems into the museum space to expand common points of reference. In their work, the artists transform the museum into a site where their concept of re-imagined ceremony takes shape. While ceremony is generally associated with a religious or spiritual gathering that celebrates a particular event, Postcommodity’s approach creates an immersive narrative environment throughout the museum, welcoming visitors into a realm of symbolic exchange that enacts respect, responsibility and reciprocity.

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.

Photo credit: Remai Modern. Adrien Williams 2017