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Bihttoš

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers2014

Biennale of Sydney

Biennale of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

This intimate telling of a love story, a family story, and the joy and pain carried between people, begins with the story of Tailfeathers’ Blackfoot mother and Sámi father. Two political activists, each struggling for the rights of their communities, meeting in Australia at a World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) in 1981 and going on to build a life together in Sápmi, and later the United States and Canada.

Their story spans global Indigenous struggles, everyday family life, the collective weight carried through intergenerational trauma, and pathways of healing. Her father is a survivor of the Sámi Boarding School System in Norway, a story he is only able to tell later in life. Told through archival family photographs, re-enactments, mixed-media animation and narration, Bihttoš is a meditation on collective and personal memories – shared, lived and inherited.

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  • Title: Bihttoš
  • Creator: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
  • Date Created: 2014
  • Location Created: Campbelltown Arts Centre
  • Provenance: Presented at the 22nd Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Canada Council for the Arts and the Consulate General of Canada in Sydney. Courtesy the artist.
  • Rights: Biennale of Sydney
  • Edition: 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020): NIRIN
Biennale of Sydney

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