Skawennati - Biography

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Skawennati

Skawennati investigates history, the future, and change from her perspective as an urban Kanien’kehá:ka woman and as a cyberpunk avatar. She questions our relationships with technology and highlights Indigenous people in the future. Her machinimas and machinimagraphs (movies and still images made in virtual environments), textiles, fashion art, sculpture and performative works have been presented in Europe, Oceania, Asia, and North America and collected by institutions such as the National Gallery of Canada.

© Family in the Sky (2017)

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Skawennati
Born in Canada, Kahnawà:ke (mohawk territory) | Works and lives in Montreal, Canada