In-Conversation: Terrance Houle and Migueltzinta Solís
August 24
2-3 PM | Auditorium
Please join us for an informal conversation with Terrance Houle and Migueltzinta Solís, exploring some of the intersecting themes across both artists’ practices. During this performative talk, Solís will be reading Houle’s tarot cards, marking the very first time that Houle’s cards are read.
Free with registration.
This conversation is programmed in conjunction with The Wagon Burner and Other Stories, on view at Contemporary Calgary until September 8, 2024.
Terrance Houle
(he/him)
Terrance Houle (b. 1975) is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary artist and member of the Kainai Nation, with ancestry from the Sandy Bay Reservation, Manitoba. His late mother, Maxine WeaselFat, was a member of the Kainai Nation; and his father, Donald Vernon Houle, is from the Sandy Bay Reservation, Manitoba. Both were third-generation residential school survivors, with the latter currently residing in the Blood Reservation in Southern Alberta. Houle’s work ranges from the subversive, the humorous, and the absurd to the solemn and the poetic. His practice often relates to the physical body, addressing questions around history, colonization, Indigeneity, and representation in popular culture, as well as memory, home, and reserve communities. He recently co-directed a short animation film, Otanimm/Onnimm, with his daughter Neko. The film has been widely screened at festivals in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, New Zealand, Vancouver, and Oxford, among others.
Migueltzinta Solís
(he/him)
Migueltzinta Solís is a trans Chicanx interdisciplinary artist, writer, educator, and Tarot practitioner. A creator of immersive site-specific experiences, his creative practice blends performance, video, installation, painting, and textile. Migueltzinta writes across multiple genres and forms, working towards a counter-institutional poetics of knowledge mobilization. Theme parks, amateur porn, Indigenous futurities, colonial imaginaries, queer materialities, and (un)belonging have been recurring themes. Migueltzinta holds an MFA in Art and a PhD in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought from the University of Lethbridge/Iniskim in Treaty 7, traditional Blackfoot territory.
