Andrea Carlson Future Cache
Andrea Carlson
Future Cache
A commission for UMMA’s Vertical Gallery
Curator: Jennifer Friess, Associate Curator of Photography
On View: June 11, 2022 through June 2024
Andrea Carlson, Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
You are on Anishinaabe land
In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”
Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.
Photos by Jeri Hollister and Patrick Young, Michigan Imaging
On View
Select artworks on view for this exhibition
Title
Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900"
Artist(s)
Andrea Carlson
Object Creation Date
2022
Medium & Support
gouache on paper
Credit Line
Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Andrea Carlson, Sky in the Morning Hours of "Binaakwiiwi-giizis 15, 1900", 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Title
L'assomption Sash for Carrying Things that No Longer Exist #5
Artist(s)
Andrea Carlson
Object Creation Date
2022
Medium & Support
gouache on paper
Credit Line
Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Andrea Carlson, L'assomption Sash for Carrying Things that No Longer Exist #5, 2022, gouache on paper. Courtesy of the artist © Andrea Carlson
Debwewin Asanjigowin
Truth Cache
A collection of conversations around Anishinaabe powwow practice.
The sound of the drum is the truest sound. Hear our truths.
Video interviews conducted by UMMA's Student Program Coordinator for Andrea Carlson Future Cache Yrsa Anwatin Peterson
Support
Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org.
Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
