We’re highlighting this week, this wonderful Art in the Spotlight talk that recently made it’s way to the AGO’s Youtube channel (for those of you that can’t watch Zoom talks in real time, they all eventually make their way here!) We really enjoyed this conversation between three powerhouse women! Watch, here.

Join artist Sandra Brewster and scholar, writer, and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for a conversation with the AGO’s Wanda Nanibush about Black and Indigenous place-making through their collaborative audio-visual project, Viscosity.

Viscosity was filmed at Leslie Spit in Toronto – a human made piece of land that juts into Chi’Nibish (Lake Ontario) and has now become naturalized. It is also a setting in Simpson’s novel Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies. Viscosity appears in poem form in Noopiming. Viscosity is one of the tracks on Simpson’s latest release Theory of Ice, which was released on March 12, from You’ve Changed Records.