4 p.m.
Artists Émilie Monnet and Waira Nina will lead a public discussion about their work Nigamon/Tunai, a poetic and performative manifesto born out of their long friendship and more than ten years of collaboration between Indigenous communities in North America and the Colombian Amazon. They will share the stories, reflections, and commitments that fuel their work, which is deeply rooted in the defense of water, living knowledge, and threatened territories.
This meeting will take the form of a broad discussion with guests from the region and will address the environmental and political issues related to copper mining—a resource exploited on their ancestral territories, both in Canada and on the lands of the Inga people in the Amazon. These extractive practices, and their devastating consequences, resonate disturbingly from one territory to another.
The discussion will be punctuated by live sound excerpts from the work Nigamon/Tunai, performed on copper instruments specially created by Colombian artist Leonel Vásquez. These sound sculptures, true objects of memory, extend the immersive experience of the work and amplify its poetic and political reach.
The gathering will continue around the lake, near L’Écart, with excerpts from Émilie Monnet and Waira Nina’s performance, presented through the trees.
At the crossroads of voices, worldviews—Anishinaabe and Inga—art, and resistance, this discussion offers a lively and engaging space for sharing, between memory, territory, and creation.
In collaboration with Minwashin.
