Pluriversal Worlding with Extended Reality uses media arts worldmaking and story to re-imagine reparative, decolonial human and ecological relationships in colonial and ecological ‘trouble sites’ in Ontario. Our queer, mixed settler and Anishinaabe team of artists and theorists seek a reparative return to sites such as scrap yards, sites of industry (Chemical Valley), agriculture, prisons, military bases, historical sites, land claims sites, and First Nation reserves. Alongside colonial reparation, we need to devise sustainable ways to live in relation to ecosystems in which both humans and the other than human entities/agencies can thrive. We use Extended Reality (XR) worldmaking and storytelling to create a media arts pluriverse—a world composed of multiple worlds—that is queerly off kilter from mainstream understandings of the world as singular and total. I contributed to the conceptualization of this project, and I lead the Indigenous storytelling aspects, including workshops with members of my home community of Kettle and Stoney Point.
Mary Bunch, Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning & Caitlin Fisher
Peripheral Visions Co-Lab 