NEW EXPO : Nizhónígo Yííkado - We Walk in Beauty EXPO Pilar Brussel VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Vernissage 17 November 2022
Pilar, VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Curated by Bernaded DEXTERS
Nizhónígo Yííkado - We Walk in Beauty is a collaboration of Native American, American, and artists, performers, scientists, painters, sculptors, and researchers working in Belgium.The project considers our place on Earth in the context of the circular interconnectedness (of humans and non-humans). Photography, sensorial walking tracks, poetry, and talking events give an account of the plenitude of ways in which people engage with their environment in the present and the past, opening doors towards possible futures.
Between November 18 and December 17, 2022 a series of events and public moments in multiple locations in Brussels, Ghent, and Antwerp will take place in the framework of the project. FOLLOW the EXPO on facebook Nizhónígo Yííkado - We Walk in Beauty
link website for more info : https://www.nizhoni.be
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LIP DIP PAINTA ROADMOVIE BY Christine Clinckx
2022 film projection 2 screens
Music by Arthur Pas
Installed as double projection
The title of the film, Lip Dip Paint, refers to low-paid female factory workers in the early 1920s, painting the dials of watches with glowing paint containing radium and using their lips to adjust their brushes, which led to illnesses and several deaths.
For more information on Waterbury’s Radium Girls, see: https://connecticuthistory.org/waterburys-radium-girls/
For more information on water problematics and uranium mining on Navajo land, see: https://www.epa.gov/.../providing-safe-drinking-water...