The Outset Partners Grants Programme 2020 awarded an Impact Award to The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto in support of the exhibition Arctic/Amazon.
Drawing upon an ongoing collaborative project - the Arctic/Amazon symposium that was co-hosted by the Ontario College of Art & Design University and The Power Plant in September 2019 - Arctic/Amazon explores the ways in which Indigenous contemporary artists address issues of climate change, globalised Indigeneity, and political contact zones in and about the circumpolar Arctic and Amazonia. By addressing Indigenous knowledge, spiritual practices, violence, and ecological concerns in a variety of media, artists confront the global project. They represent a set of diverse realities that are shaped by both human and non-human beings. By negotiating their co-existence in a world marked by the diversity of places and people, they offer insight into the oftentimes chaotic entanglements that emerge between themselves and the newcomers.
Featuring artists from across both regions and guest curators Gerald McMaster and Nina Vincent, alongside Noor Alé from The Power Plant, the exhibition was on view between 1st October - 31st December 2022.
