Artist Talk: Archer Pechawis | Thursday 29 April

Join us via Zoom for an Artist Talk with Archer Pechawis. A widely celebrated new media artist, filmmaker, writer, curator and educator, Pechawis will discuss his diverse practice and his participation in Deanna Bowen’s Black Drones in the Hive.

This virtual event will be hosted on Zoom. Please register in advance at the following link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tp2QLvPoSNekG3EuhPFD1Q

Archer Pechawis was born in Alert Bay, BC. He has been a practicing artist since 1984 with particular interest in the intersection of Plains Cree culture and digital technology, merging "traditional" objects such as hand drums with digital video and audio sampling. His work has been exhibited across Canada, internationally in Paris and Moscow, and featured in publications such as Fuse Magazine and Canadian Theatre Review. Archer has been the recipient of many Canada Council, BC Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council awards, and won the Best New Media Award at the 2007 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and Best Experimental Short at imagineNATIVE in 2009.

Archer has worked extensively with Native youth since the start of his art practice, originally teaching juggling and theatre, and now digital media and performance. He is currently a member of the Indigenous Routes collective, teaching video game development to Native girls. 

Of Cree and European ancestry, he is a member of Mistawasis First Nation, Saskatchewan.

Artist Talks at KWAG are kindly supported by Momentum Development and Sorbara Law