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The exhibition is offered as a prototype alternative research dissemination environment and teacher education resource for the University of Ottawa’s research and learning community.

Emerging at the 10th publication anniversary of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Final Report and Calls to Action, the exhibition directly engaged with the relational, ethical, and methodological implications of Truth and Reconciliation curriculum and teacher education. The exhibition is the materializations of the researcher’s psychical, physical, indeed spiritual doctoral studies journey to understand and make felt how we (or at least him, as a white Canadian citizen) as scholars and educators might fully attend to the relational implications of relationality in our work, including how we might honour the relationality of our data from review and theorization, collection, interpretation, and re/presentation through to our knowledge dissemination as archived and taught.

The artworks themselves are the generative results of a complex relational, arts-based, aesthetico-political methodological program and collaboration between the researcher, three Indigenous and two non-Indigenous scholarly experts, and , a Two-Spirit Red River Métis artist with ties to the Pas, St. Laurent, and Ottawa areas who is currently creating within OCAD University’s Indigenous Visual Culture Program.

As an explicitly decolonial research exhibition, the artsworks collectively serve as a prototype educational resource for the University of Ottawa community, including the Faculty of Education’s teacher education and graduate studies students and faculty. The exhibition directly addresses the institution's commitments to Truth and Reconciliation, decolonization, and Indigenization by presenting and re-presenting research that honors the spirit and relational complexity of the research data. The work attempts to inspirit Truth and Reconciliation education by acknowledging spirit as inherent to all relationships and as a real, animate, and active force in a fully ecological worldview of belonging. The hopeful offer is that such inspiriting or re-engaging spirit in research and teaching may lead to truly reparative and sustainable ways of relating to each other as human and more-than-human relatives.

You're encouraged to participate by visiting and being with the work, bringing your students, and by filling out a survey within the gallery to share your thoughts with the researcher, which will help further his methodological and pedagogical research goals for similar installations.

Please direct any inquiries about the exhibition or research informing it to the researcher, , Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa at [email protected]