R to L: Dr. Joe Stahlman, Dr. Mishuana Goeman, Rosy Simas
Conversation: At the Edges of Light and Dark
A discussion with Dr. Mishuana Goeman, Rosy Simas and Dr. Joe Stahlman
This discussion will be ASL interpreted by Angelina Roslik
Community Reception (food and beverages) 6pm-8pm
Conversation 6:30pm-7:30pm
Reserve a spot here HERE for the conversation and reception
Covid Update: With the recent uptick of covid because holidays, we recommend wearing a mask when you are not eating. To help reduce community spread. (masks will be provided)
Join Rosy Simas for a conversation with Haudenosaunee scholars Dr. Mishuana Goeman and Dr. Joe Stahlman as they discuss Simas’ installation and performance of she who lives on the road to war currently on view at the Weisman Art Museum.
This is a post-performance gathering after the 2pm show of she who lives on the road to war at the Weisman Art Museum. Tickets available here for the show.
she who lives on the road to war is an immersive installation and dance performance created by Rosy Simas in response to global loss and the collective need to come together in peace and reconciliation.
she who lives on the road to war takes its title from one of the names of Haudenosaunee historical figure Jigonhsasee, whose wisdom and vision helped Hiawatha and the Peacemaker bring the Nations together as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
she who lives on the road to war, the installation is a place for visitors to rest, grieve, condole and meditate.
she who lives on the road to war is on view at the Weisman Art Museum Target Studio Creative Collaboration through February 19, 2023
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
DR. MISHUANA GOEMAN, Tonawanda Band of Seneca, is currently a Professor of Indigenous Studies at University of Buffalo (on leave from UCLA’s Gender Studies and American Indian Studies). Her monographs include Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and the forthcoming Settler Aesthetics and the Spectacle of Originary Moments: Terrence Malick’s the New World (University of Nebraska Press). She is also part of the feminist editorial collective for Keywords in Gender and Sexuality Studies (NYU Press 2021). Her community-engaged work is devoted to several digital humanities projects, including participation as Co-PI on community-based digital projects, Mapping Indigenous L.A (2015), which gathers alternative maps of resiliency from Indigenous LA communities. Carrying Our Ancestors Home (2019) is a site concentrating on better working tribal relationships and communications as it concerns repatriation and NAGPRA. She is the PI of the University of California President’s office multi-campus Research Grant for Centering Tribal Stories in Difficult Times. She also headed up the new Mukurtu California Native Hub housed at AISC through an NEH sub-grant, which supports local tribal organizations and nations to start their cultural heritage and language digitally sovereign sites through the Mukurtu platform. She also publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals and books, including guest-edited volumes on Native Feminisms and Indigenous Performances. Her work from 2018-2022 included holding the Inaugural Special Advisor position at UCLA, where she worked across campus to better Indigenous relationships. From 2020-2021 she was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the Center for Diversity Innovation at the University at Buffalo, located in her home territories.
ROSY SIMAS, (enrolled member of the Seneca Nation) is a dance and transdisciplinary artist. Simas’ work weaves themes of personal and collective identity with family, sovereignty, and healing. Simas creates dance work with a team of Native and BIQTPOC artists, driven by movement-vocabularies developed through deep listening. She is carried through her life and work by the many generations of family who were and are Seneca, Stockbridge-Munsee, Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Neutral, and of European descent. This extensive knowledge of her family and lineage is the underpinning of her relationship to culture and history – stored in her body – which is expressed through her work – of moving people, moving image, and moving objects that she makes for stage and installation. Simas’ dance works include Weave, Skin(s) and We Wait In The Darkness, which have toured throughout Turtle Island. Simas’ installations have been exhibited at the Seneca Iroquois National Museum, Colorado College, All My Relations Arts, and Soo Visual Art Center. Simas is a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Choreography Fellow, Guggenheim Creative Arts Fellow, McKnight Foundation Choreography Fellow, Dance/USA Fellow, USA Doris Duke Fellow, a recipient of a Joyce Award from The Joyce Foundation, a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation SHIFT award, as well as multiple awards from NEFA National Dance Project, the MAP Fund, and NPN. Simas is the Artistic Director of Rosy Simas Danse and three thirty one space, a creative studio for Native and BIPOC artists in Minneapolis.
DR. JOE STAHLMAN is the Director of Seneca Nation’s Onöhsagwë:de’ Culture Center and Seneca Nation’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office. Joe is a scholar and researcher of Tuscarora descent. He has over 25 years of research experience working with First Peoples throughout the Americas. His research focuses on culture and history, as well as ongoing socio-economic and health & wellness related endeavors with Native communities. He takes an active role in addressing the spaces Indigenous Peoples occupy across the North American landscape. He talks on the need to promote equity, equality, and justice among all peoples through a number of reconciliatory processes which empowers people to express agency through creative and intellectual endeavors.
Initial research for she who lives on the road to war was supported by the Weisman Art Museum and the Pamela Beatty Mitchell Residency in Contemporary Dance at Colorado College Department of Theater and Dance. This presentation of she who lives on the road to war is made possible by a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation SHIFT award, The MAP Fund, and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Projects of Rosy Simas Danse are supported by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and the McKnight Foundation.
ALT TEXT:
Three images together of three people right to left. Dr. Joe Stahlman is pictured in black-and-white, facing the camera straight on. He's bearded, with dark hair pulled back, and has a solemn expression. Dr. Mishuana Goeman is pictured in front of a bookcase, looking straight at the camera. The bookcase is filled with Native American ceramics; she is wearing a green print shirt; her hair is pulled back and she's wearing beaded dangle earrings. Rosy Simas is seated and wearing a loose black button down top. She has medium brown skin, dark black eyes, and dark brown hair. She is wearing a black shirt and multi-colored beaded hoop earrings.
Photograph of Rosy Simas by Tim Rummelhoff, Courtesy McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers
