Ange Loft

2024 Program Artist

Ange Loft (Kanien’kehá:ka, from Kahnawà:ke, QC, Canada; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) is an interdisciplinary performing artist. Her collaborations use arts based research, voice, wearable sculpture, theatrical co-creation and Haudenosaunee history to facilitate workshops and community-engaged spectacle. She was the director of the Talking Treaties initiative and co-author of A Treaty Guide for Torontonians (2022). Ange was the inaugural Indigenous Research Fellow at the Centre for Canadian Architecture (2023), Indigenous Artist in Residence at Centaur Theatre (22-25) and Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor at University College (2023/24). Ange received the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Indigenous Artist Award in 2023.

Program

Preview: Exhibition Activation with Elina Waage Mikalsen

Elina Waage Mikalsen will activate elements of her installation I Lay My Ear Against the Weave’s Ear including the rátnomuorat (loom), dorte (a spinning wheel) and vikšamuorra (a hand-held tool to skein the yarn after it has been spun). Note: This program is accessible to professional preview visitors only. The artist will be activating her […]

Program

Exhibition Activation with Elina Waage Mikalsen

Elina Waage Mikalsen will activate elements of her installation I Lay My Ear Against the Weave’s Ear including the rátnomuorat (loom), dorte (a spinning wheel) and vikšamuorra (a hand-held tool to skein the yarn after it has been spun). Note: While there is a capacity limit for this program, tickets are not required. Please arrive […]

Program

Carrying Patterns: Sound and Gesture

Ange Loft and Olivia Shortt invite participants to take part in an interdisciplinary workshop that investigates patterns found in pottery shards, unearthed from archaeological sites across the city. Participants will be guided in developing an understanding of these patterns through a clay sculpting activity and a movement exercise, extending the patterns across mediums to recall […]

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