Sweet Labour Art Collective was instigated in 2010 by the late two-spirit multidisciplinary artist Billy Douthwright (Onkwehón:we) disability settler dance artist Ruth Douthwright, queer settler dance artist Kevin O’Connor (Gaelic/Sicilian). Members include Marshall Stonefish (Oneida, Chippewa filmmaker/ editor), two-spirit Multidisciplinary Artist/dancer/choreographer Montana Summers (Onkwehón:we), two-spirit Oneida language keeper Brooke Chris john, settler multidisciplinary artist Linda Jantz, settler costume/installation design and production Meredith Jones and numerous other guest artists and community members. We have instigated multiple community-engaged multi-arts projects. Our collective works within the friction and paradoxes of the colonial relations that brought us all together. We make performance work that intersects film, installation, site-based dance performance, audience participation, contemporary folk, Indigenous dance practices, and audience participatory scores.
Highlighted below are several works I participated in by facilitating ink making and tool making in community. A installation of fabric and community mark making with Walnut dyes and an installation and performance using the textiles created for the the community event Becoming Walnut and a film. The textiles were then reused for an installation for the community even Recomposing relations.
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