To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this episode, Anna Shah Hoque rounds off Season 3 with a chat with the fabulous guest producers of Season 3: Aedan Corey, Keegan Prempeh, Kole Peplinskie, Summer Harmony-Twenish and Matt Miwa.  

They dive into how they have cultivated their art practices in Odawa, the push and pull relationship between sustaining a creative practice in a neoliberal capitalist economy, and how and each of their respective communities. 

Thank you so much for joining us this season! Thank you to all the participants! What has been your favourite conversation? We hope you have a great summer! 

Participants: 

Aedan Corey  

Aedan Corey is a Two Spirit writer, visual artist, emerging curator and Inuit tattooist from Iqaluktuuttiaq, Nunavut — a town of approximately 1,800 people. Author and illustrator of the chapbook “Inuujunga” (Coven Editions, 2021) and short story “Unikkaannguaq” (Nipiit Magazine, 2020), they began creating art at a young age. Aedan’s work is heavily inspired by their lived experiences as a queer, neurodivergent Inuk. Their goal is always to inspire and advocate for those within their communities through their artistic practices, letting others know that they are not alone. Aedan currently resides on the unceded Algonquin territory known as Ottawa. Check out Aedan’s work on Instagram @uviluq_by_design 

Matt Miwa  

Matt Miwa (he/him) hails from Aurora, Ontario. He moved to Ottawa in 2000 to attend theatre school. Matt maintains a theatre creation and performance art practice.  Prior to the pandemic, Matt toured his theatre piece “The Tashme Project: The Living Archives” across Canada (with co-creator Julie Tamiko Manning). This play traces the oral histories of twenty Japanese Canadian elders. Matt and Julie hope to perform this play for the rest of their lives.  Matt's dedication to this play is indicative of his broader love and appreciation for the Japanese Canadian community with whom he frequently works.  Most recently, Matt produced the event “Tomoni/Go Together” with CUAG.  Tomoni unites Japanese cultural practitioners with local non-Japanese artists in unique and surprising artistic collaborations.  @miwa.light.house   

Kole Peplinskie  

Kole Peplinskie (they/them) is an Anishinabe beader and artist currently living on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin territory, colonially known as Ottawa. They are a member of Kebaowek First Nation, but were raised in North Bay, ON until moving here over a decade ago.  Kole has been creating art in various capacities their whole life, but more professionally starting in 2018. They primarily create beadwork pieces through the brand Rustling Pine (@/rustlingpine on Insta), and have had their piece "Grassroots" shown at Carleton University Art Gallery in 2020 and another piece titled "Trancestors Embrace" at Take Home Gallery in Manitoba in 2021.   

Keegan Prempeh  

Keegan Prempeh is a Black, non-binary Sagittarius sun on a journey of self-discovery, radical transformation and healing. Xe practices xer art on Anishinaabe territory via music, dance and storytelling. Guided by womanism, collectivism and the pursuit of social justice, Keegan hopes to foster meaningful connections to build community.  IG @wefallforever 

Summer-Harmony Twenish  

Summer is an Algonquin person from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg who works from a queer and Indigenous feminist lens. With vibrant and playful colours, Summer's digital art and...

What is the importance of controlling, directing and creating spaces for the kinds of stories we want to hear, witness and learn from and about? In episode 10 of the TBC podcast, producer Anna Shah Hoque talks to Adrienne Row-Smith and Hingman Leung about filmmaking, photography and visual storytelling and production.  

Anna, Adrienne and Hingman think through developing visual archives directed by their respective lived experiences. They talk about racial bias in visual technologies and cultivating and practicing ethical artistic practices while working with people and creating spaces for stories that centre Black and racialized lives and communities. 

Credits: Season 3 graphic created by Hunter Dewache. Custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by fin-xuan, with post-production audio work by Nicole Bedford. This season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive is generously funded by a Digital Now grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.    

Participants: 

Adrienne Row-Smith 

Adrienne is a photographer and videographer working in both Ottawa and Toronto. Through the utilization of bold and dark imagery, Adrienne aims to bring marginalized voices to the forefront of media representation and inclusion via her media company Strast Media. Adrienne’s work has been featured in the magazines Splice Media Group & Monkey Goose Magazine and the exhibition To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive at Carleton University Art Gallery (2020). Find her @adriennersphoto and @strastmedia. 

Hingman Leung 

Hingman is an Ottawa-based filmmaker with a passion for telling stories that bridge different ways of seeing the world and specializing in telling stories through the lens of culture and food. Her first short documentary, on food waste in China (2015), received the Public Ethnography Award. Since then, she’s produced several documentaries and narrative films as director and editor, reaching audiences nationally through CBC and locally in film festivals such as Inside Out Toronto, Ottawa Canadian Film Festival and Digi60. She teaches beginner videography through the Digital Arts Resource Centre and currently volunteers on the Board of Digi60 Filmmakers’ Festival. 

Welcome to a new season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive! We kick off this season with a conversation between host Anna Shah Hoque and Jade Sullivan, host of the podcast My Intersectional Opinion (@myintersectionalopinion).

This first episode serves as a framework for Season 3. In the next eleven episodes we will talk about diasporic longing and ancestral inheritances. We will think together about how we make memories with each other for each other, and tune into stories that were set to the side.

We’ll also talk about the community building that is possible for Black, Brown and Indigenous communities, work that evades borders and barriers. This season is an opportunity, broadly speaking, to put our truths and the journeys to ourselves on air.

Credits:

Season 3 graphic created by Hunter Dewache. Custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by Fin-xuan. This season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive is generously funded by a Digital Now grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Bios:

Jade Sullivan (she/her) is a feminist geographer and intersectional activist currently learning, loving and living on unceded and unsurrendered Kanien'kéha Nation, also known as Montreal (Tiohtià:ke). Jade focuses her advocacy on creating safe and sustainable spaces for systemically marginalized people, using an anti-oppressive, decolonial, gender-transformative feminist lens. She is a storyteller on her podcast My Intersectional Opinion, a Director and Advocacy Lead at Feminitt Caribbean, and board member of Planned Parenthood Ottawa. On her time off she is usually painting, (trying to) baking gluten-free treats, reading or taking cute pictures of her cat, Princess.

You can find her on Instagram and Twitter at @ohmyjadie and find her podcast My Intersectional Opinion on Spotify, Youtube and Apple Podcast on Instagram at @myintersectionalopinion. To contact her, feel free to email her at jadebsullivan@gmail.com. 

Anna Shah Hoque (she/they) is a South Asian-Persian bi-queer femme curator, producer, visual storyteller, educator, and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Feminist & Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. Her dissertation examines the relationship between decoloniality, visual arts and archive-making among Indigenous and South Asian artists and curators in “Canada.” She is the producer and host of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive, a podcast series that shares stories, memories, and practices of Ottawa-based artists, community organizers, and activists. She co-curated To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive, presented at Carleton University Art Gallery, which highlighted stories of queer communities long excluded from local public history: Indigenous, Black, and racialized queer and trans peoples. They serve on the Board of Directors at G101 and as a member of Firegrove Studio, a visual storytelling arts collective. Anna holds a Master’s degree in Communication and a BA. Combined Honours in Communication Studies and Canadian Studies, Minor in Sexuality Studies from Carleton University. She has published in the Canadian Journal of Communication and the Capstone Seminar Series (Re)Negotiating Artifacts of Canadian Narratives of Identity. She has forthcoming publications in An Atlas of Global Media, an edited collection through Amherst College Press and in the journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas.

CUAG invites you to join host Anna Shah Hoque and guest producers Aedan Corey, Matt Miwa, Kole Peplinskie, Keegan Prempeh and Summer-Harmony Twenish for a new season of the groundbreaking podcast To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive.

The podcast engages Ottawa-based QTIBPOC artists, arts workers and activists whose networks, ideas and histories have built, and continue to build, this incredible community. Artists featured include Adrienne Row-Smith, Hingman Leung, Pree Rehal and Jennifer Brunet-Rentechem.

This season foregrounds conversations about Black, Indigenous, racialized, diasporic and queer archives of longing, memory and inheritance in arts-based practices. Hear from familiar voices, delve into hidden histories and discover your new favourite artist!

We're also thrilled to debut a beautiful new graphic for this season, created by Hunter Dewache, and custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by Fin-xuan.

New episodes drop in January 2023! Make sure you’re subscribed on your podcast platform of choice so you don’t miss the first episode.

This season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive is generously funded by a Digital Now grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Welcome to Episode 10 of “To Be Continued: A Stonecroft Symposium Podcast”! 

In this final episode, Jade Byard Peek and Fae Johnston share stores of queer and trans organizing in the city, along with challenges and hopes of solidarity work.

“To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive” is on view at Carleton University Art Gallery. Featuring: Barry Ace, Howard Adler, Aymara Alvarado Sanchez, Pansee Atta, Rosalie Favell, Ashley Grenstone, RJ Jones, Don Kwan, Ed Kwan AKA China Doll, Kole Peplinskie, Adrienne Row-Smith, Pride Is Political, Shanghai Restaurant. 

Produced by Fin Xuan Tran, Anna Shah Hoque and Cara Tierney, this episode was recorded in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. 

The graphic for this podcast features beaded pins by Ottawa-based artist and musician Larissa Desrosiers (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe). The pins were commissioned as gifts for the podcast participants. You can find more of her work at @bangishimonbeadwork. 

CUAG acknowledges with sincere gratitude the support of the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, which promotes education in the visual arts and fosters the public’s appreciation of the visual arts. 

Find more about the exhibition on CUAG's website: http://cuag.ca 

Welcome to Episode 9 of “To Be Continued: A Stonecroft Symposium Podcast”! 

In this episode, Anna Shah Hoque chats with co-collaborators, siblings and organizers Taib Boyce and Tyler Boyce about Black joy, community organizing and celebrating queer and trans Black communities.

“To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive” is on view at Carleton University Art Gallery. Featuring: Barry Ace, Howard Adler, Aymara Alvarado Sanchez, Pansee Atta, Rosalie Favell, Ashley Grenstone, RJ Jones, Don Kwan, Ed Kwan AKA China Doll, Kole Peplinskie, Adrienne Row-Smith, Pride Is Political, Shanghai Restaurant. 

Produced by Fin Xuan Tran, Anna Shah Hoque and Cara Tierney, this episode was recorded in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. 

The graphic for this podcast features beaded pins by Ottawa-based artist and musician Larissa Desrosiers (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe). The pins were commissioned as gifts for the podcast participants. You can find more of her work at @bangishimonbeadwork. 

CUAG acknowledges with sincere gratitude the support of the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, which promotes education in the visual arts and fosters the public’s appreciation of the visual arts. 

Find more about the exhibition on CUAG's website: http://cuag.ca 

Welcome to Episode 8 of “To Be Continued: A Stonecroft Symposium Podcast”! 

In this episode, Keegan Prempeh talks with Jade Bayard Peek, Lydia Collins and Pomaa Prempeh about Black disability justice, community care and access intimacy in the context of Covid.

“To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive” is on view at Carleton University Art Gallery. Featuring: Barry Ace, Howard Adler, Aymara Alvarado Sanchez, Pansee Atta, Rosalie Favell, Ashley Grenstone, RJ Jones, Don Kwan, Ed Kwan AKA China Doll, Kole Peplinskie, Adrienne Row-Smith, Pride Is Political, Shanghai Restaurant. 

Produced by Fin Xuan Tran, Anna Shah Hoque and Cara Tierney, this episode was recorded in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. 

The graphic for this podcast features beaded pins by Ottawa-based artist and musician Larissa Desrosiers (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe). The pins were commissioned as gifts for the podcast participants. You can find more of her work at @bangishimonbeadwork. 

CUAG acknowledges with sincere gratitude the support of the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, which promotes education in the visual arts and fosters the public’s appreciation of the visual arts. 

Find more about the exhibition on CUAG's website: http://cuag.ca 

Welcome to Episode 7 of “To Be Continued: A Stonecroft Symposium Podcast”! 

In this episode, Larissa Desrosiers, Benny Michaud and Christine Toulouse talk about beading, quillwork and Indigeneity, and weaving into community history through their own archival productions. 

“To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive” is on view at Carleton University Art Gallery. Featuring: Barry Ace, Howard Adler, Aymara Alvarado Sanchez, Pansee Atta, Rosalie Favell, Ashley Grenstone, RJ Jones, Don Kwan, Ed Kwan AKA China Doll, Kole Peplinskie, Adrienne Row-Smith, Pride Is Political, Shanghai Restaurant. 

Produced by Fin Xuan Tran, Anna Shah Hoque, Cara Tierney, this episode was recorded in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. 

The graphic for this podcast features beaded pins by Ottawa-based artist and musician Larissa Desrosiers (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe). The pins were commissioned as gifts for the podcast participants. You can find more of her work at @bangishimonbeadwork. 

CUAG acknowledges with sincere gratitude the support of the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, which promotes education in the visual arts and fosters the public’s appreciation of the visual arts. 

Find more about the exhibition on CUAG's website: http://cuag.ca 

Welcome to Episode 6 of “To Be Continued: A Stonecroft Symposium Podcast”! 

In this episode, community organizer and activist Keegan Prempeh discusses the protest action that took place in response to the 2017 Capital Pride parade in Ottawa. They are joined by fellow Pride is Political organizers Luka Roderique, Rosie Dougé-Charles and Mar Mohamed.

“To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive” is on view at Carleton University Art Gallery. Featuring: Barry Ace, Howard Adler, Aymara Alvarado Sanchez, Pansee Atta, Rosalie Favell, Ashley Grenstone, RJ Jones, Don Kwan, Ed Kwan AKA China Doll, Kole Peplinskie, Adrienne Row-Smith, Pride Is Political, Shanghai Restaurant. 

Produced by Fin Xuan Tran, Anna Shah Hoque, Cara Tierney, this episode was recorded in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. 

The graphic for this podcast features beaded pins by Ottawa-based artist and musician Larissa Desrosiers (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe). The pins were commissioned as gifts for the podcast participants. You can find more of her work at @bangishimonbeadwork. 

CUAG acknowledges with sincere gratitude the support of the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, which promotes education in the visual arts and fosters the public’s appreciation of the visual arts. 

Find more about the exhibition on CUAG's website: http://cuag.ca 

Welcome to Episode 5 of “To Be Continued: A Stonecroft Symposium Podcast”! 

In this episode, Don Kwan and Ed Kwan AKA China Doll talk about developing an artistic practice, Drag and growing up in Ottawa’s historic Shanghai Restaurant. 

“To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive” is on view at Carleton University Art Gallery. Featuring: Barry Ace, Howard Adler, Aymara Alvarado Sanchez, Pansee Atta, Rosalie Favell, Ashley Grenstone, RJ Jones, Don Kwan, Ed Kwan AKA China Doll, Kole Peplinskie, Adrienne Row-Smith, Pride Is Political, Shanghai Restaurant. 

Produced by Fin Xuan Tran, Anna Shah Hoque, Cara Tierney, this episode was recorded in Ottawa, on unceded Algonquin territory. 

The graphic for this podcast features beaded pins by Ottawa-based artist and musician Larissa Desrosiers (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe). The pins were commissioned as gifts for the podcast participants. You can find more of her work at @bangishimonbeadwork. 

CUAG acknowledges with sincere gratitude the support of the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts, which promotes education in the visual arts and fosters the public’s appreciation of the visual arts. 

Find more about the exhibition on CUAG's website: http://cuag.ca