In Re-Visioning the Screen, visual artist Martina Cleary and spoken word poet Janelle Pewapsconias explore memories and relationality between sites of settler colonial and the legacy of postcolonial systems of institutionalisation. The project seeks to find ways of navigating cultural relationality across time and space. The work is created using 360 video and sound, for a Web-VR platform, and as a response to Susan Hiller’s Dreamscreens (1996).

Janelle Pewapsconias “ecoaborijanelle” Pewapsconias is a multidimensional nehīyaw spoken word artist based in Little Pine First Nation of the Treaty 6 Prairies. Her dedication to honour the Earth inspires her to read, perform, and design to speak to Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and thriving, despite ongoing settler colonialism in Canada.

Influenced by the poetry slam and Cree oral storytelling customs, ecoaborijanelle has done a TEDx Talk, competed nationally twice, and published in the American Indian Culture Research Journal. Janelle lives in her home community with her son and dog, surrounded by the endless living skies and rolling prairies.

Re-visioning The Screen is the last of three projects of the online series Dear www, curated by glór’s curator in residence, Moran Been-noon: we’re all tired of looking at each other through framed bunches of pixels. The years 2020 and 2021 made digital communication, and the internet, into our most “natural” way to see and hear each other. For Dear www, glór’s curator in residence invited six artists to respond to this reality. All the artwork offers a critical view, challenged by the technology, but at the same time acknowledges the road we’ve all walked and the value that can be found in digital channels.

This series brings together Irish artists based in the West, and Canadian artists based in Treaty 6 Territories – Saskatchewan, to pay tribute to digital art projects from the 20th century. Each Irish-Canadian pair created an artistic response to a historical digital art project, from a 2021 point of view.