Thursday October 10, 12 pm
Donald Burwash Dining Room, Hart House, 2nd floor, West Wing 7 Hart House Circle
sponsored by University of Toronto Hart House
Multidisciplinary artist seth cardinal dodginghorse shares their art practice and discusses their new sound work dirt song. They will perform a sound composition from dirt song, which was originally commissioned by Newworks Calgary in winter 2024 and has grown into a new body of work and sonic explorations of the artists relationship to land and memory using cassette tape, electric guitar, effects pedals, traditional Prairie Chicken dance bells and field recordings. dirt song explores a future where the soundscape of urban spaces (vehicles and construction) have been replaced with what has always been here, the land, the animals, and Indigenous people.
seth cardinal dodginghorse is a multidisciplinary artist, Prairie Chicken Dancer, experimental musician and cultural researcher. They grew up eating dirt and exploring the forest on their family’s ancestral land on the Tsuut’ina Nation. In 2014 their family was forcibly removed from their homes and land for the construction of the Southwest Calgary Ring Road. This life changing event has been the focus of their creative work. seth’s current music project is lawrence teeth, they are also a part of the artist collective tīná gúyáńí (Deer Road) with their mother Glenna Cardinal.
