Slut Island, featuring Lindsay Nixon & others

Chivengi •Melody Mckiver•Chloe Alexandra•Bá Ra•Lindsay Nixon•
 
SLUT ISLAND FESTIVAL
Full festival line up/event page
 
• Melody McKiver • (Sioux Lookout)
Melody McKiver is an Anishinaabe multidisciplinary artist and arts educator located in Sioux Lookout on Treaty #3 territory. A member of Obishikokaang Lac Seul First Nation on their mother’s side, Melody’s father’s family are settler Canadians of Scottish and Lithuanian origins. Melody is a compelling solo performer, integrating contemporary electronics into rigorous Western classical musical training to shape Anishinaabe compositions for the new millennium. Melody is current booking performances to support the December 2017 release of their latest EP “Reckoning,” The album is the score to Article 11’s theatre production of the same name, exploring the effects of Indian Residential Schools and the repercussions of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Melody is one of many Indigenous artists across Turtle Island turning critical eyes towards the realities of colonization, and using their art to not only raise awareness, but to celebrate the diversity and resilience of their own culture amongst the hundreds of Indigenous cultures that still call Turtle Island home. In addition to their solo practice, Melody is an in-demand collaborator and composer and plays drums with Indigenous hip-hop fusion band Red Slam Collective, and has collaborated with Polaris Music Prize-winner Lido Pimienta, toured with iskwé and composed string arrangements for Lakota Hip Hop artist Frank Waln.
Website: www.melodymckiver.com
Twitter: @melodymckiver
Instagram: @melodymckivermusic
 
• Chloe Alexandra • (Portland, OR)
Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree, Canadian artist and curator, living and working in Portland, Oregon. Using Pure Data, Arduino, hardware and voice, Thompson creates unique sonic experiences and expressions through the spatialization of isolated frequencies.
Thompson’s work has been shown at Unity Gain: High Density Loudspeaker Array, Corridor (Seattle), Quiet City w/ Merzbow & Balázs Pándi (Vancouver, BC), Littman and White Galleries, Compliance Division, Bronco Gallery, and Variform Gallery. She has also presented in collaborations for Converge45, Disjecta, Out of Sight (Seattle), PICA T:BA:17, SIX for Subharmonic: A Music and Sonic Arts Symposium (PICA), and Nationale. Thompson has given lectures and workshops at T:BA:17 Institute in dialogue with Tanya Tagaq, Subharmonic Workshop (PICA) with France Jobin and Burke Jam, Open Signal, home school pdx, Portland State University, and PNCA as guest faculty. Thompson’s written work has also been featured in publications including Art in America, Zero Cool, Provision, Cig Thesis, and Blankstairs.
https://soundcloud.com/chloe-alexandra-6/corridorroomquick
 
• Chivengi •
Chivengi is a singer, songwriter and self defined reimagined black male identity. R&B inspired sounds and melodramatic melodies could define the 19 year old artist’s musical style.
Music: SoundCloud.com/Chivengi
Instagram: Instagram.com/chivengi
 
• Bá Ra •
Bá Ra uses voice, wine glasses and synthesizers to communicate with the body through oscillation, rhythm and frequency as a practice of study and healing. As a chronically ill femme from a mixed immigrant background, Bá Ra studies the body as a vessel of frequency, existing outside of capitalist structures and attune to the waveforms of the cosmos, that speaks to the intergenerational stories held in our bodies.
https://barasound.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: @bb.boris.b
 
Reading from their upcoming creative non-fiction collection, nîtisânak:
 
• Lindsay Nixon •
Lindsay Nixon is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator, award-nominated editor, award-nominated writer and McGill Art History Ph.D. student. They currently hold the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art. Nixon has previously edited mâmawi­-âcimowak, an independent art, art criticism and literature journal, and their writing has appeared in Malahat Review, Room, GUTS, Mice, esse, The Inuit Art Quarterly, Teen Vogue and other publications. Their forthcoming creative non-fiction collection, nîtisânak, is to be released in September 2018 through Metonymy Press.
 
Slut Island Festival acknowledges that it takes place on stolen land, on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. The Kanien’kehá:ka are the keepers of the Eastern Door of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The island called “Montreal” is known as Tio’tia:ke in the language of the Kanien’kehá:ka, and it has historically been a meeting place for other Indigenous nations, including the Algonquin peoples.