Mamaqtuq!
Food tasting event inspired by Inuit Country Food
Thu, Feb 2
5-6:30 pm & 7-8:30 pm
Bockley Gallery
Image credit: Acacia Johnson for NPR
Mamaqtuq! is a program of FD13 residency for the arts in collaboration with North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NĀTIFS) in partnership Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis.
FD13 residency for the arts invites national and international multidisciplinary artists to Minnesota to create new, experimental work and present it live. For the past months, FD13 resident Kablusiak has been remotely developing this invitation in collaboration with North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NĀTIFS). In January, their exchange around Indigenous food sovereignty and Inuit Country Food was expanded at NĀTIFS Indigenous Food Lab (IFL) with Culinary Director Dawn Drouillard, Outreach Director Rob Kinneen, and the IFL team. We are thrilled to invite you to the tasting event, Mamaqtuq!, meaning “It’s delicious!” in Inuvialuktun – an invitation to celebrate a newly inspired seven-course tasting menu* by chef Rob Kinneen that includes arctic char, wild game, reindeer, pickled winter squash, birchbark and chaga glazes, spiced berries, and more.
* Dairy and gluten free / Note there are no vegetarian or other substitutes provided
About Kablusiak
Multidisciplinary Inuvialuk artist Kablusiak uses humor and Inuk ingenuity to invite empathy and solidarity as they explore diasporic cultural displacement, family and community ties, and impacts of colonization on Inuit gender and sexuality expressions, health and wellbeing, and the everyday. Engaging materials such as lingerie, Sharpies, bed sheets, felt, soapstone, acrylic paint, and words, they seek to demystify Inuit art and create space for diverse Inuit-led representation. Kablusiak was born in Somba K’e/Yellowknife and is based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary. They have exhibited widely across Canada and their work can be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Alberta, Banff Center for the Arts, and many more. Kablusiak’s recent co-curatorial work includes INUA, the inaugural exhibition of 90 artists working across Inuit Nunangat and beyond at Qaumajuq, the Inuit Art Center, Winnipeg Art Gallery.
About NĀTIFS Indigenous Food Lab
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NĀTIFS), founded by James Beard award winners The Sioux Chef, is dedicated to addressing the economic and health crisis affecting Native communities by re-establishing Native foodways. NĀTIFS Indigenous Food Lab in Midtown Global Market on historic Lake Street in Minneapolis is a professional Indigenous kitchen and training center for establishing a new Indigenous food system that reintegrates Native Foods and Indigenous-focused education into tribal communities across North America. Reclamation of ancestral education is a critical part of reversing the damage of colonialism and forced assimilation and NĀTIFS puts food at the heart of this reclamation towards cultural and nutritional revitalization.
FD13 residency for the arts invites national and international multidisciplinary artists to Minnesota to create new, experimental work and present it live.
Bockley Gallery is a contemporary art venue and curatorial practice based in Minneapolis since 1984. The gallery offers an intimate experience with art through a calendar of on-site programming, while its outreach to local, national and international museums and biennales expands the dialogue around what it believes to be the most relevant ideas in art today.
