Janey’s Arcadia Polyvocal Action at Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, November 19, 2014 - Excerpt
Janey’s Arcadia Performance/ Action at Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Group polyvocal performance/action at the controversial Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, November 19, 2014. Voices: Ko’ona Cochrane, reading the names of missing and murdered Indigenous women from Manitoba, Canada, as listed in the poem “What Women Say of the Canadian Northwest” from Janey’s Arcadia; Colin Smith and Rachel Zolf, reading other voices from “What Women Say of the Canadian Northwest”; Katherena Vermette, reading a poem by Chrystos, “White Girl Don’t” (from the book Not Vanishing, Press Gang, 1988), which she has adapted in parts to apply to Winnipeg; and Heather Milne, reading the poem “Vocabulary to Come” from Janey’s Arcadia. Documentation footage by Erika MacPherson; sound by Leah Decter.