2024 Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor Event "Carrying Patterns"

Take part in an interdisciplinary investigation of pottery patterns discovered on archaeological shards across the city. Through an exchange guided by sound generation, sculpting activity, and embodied pattern work, Loft interprets the shards as though she were an experimental artist from a pre-contact St. Lawrence river valley.

The sharing is guided by a performance of MTL1500, incorporating Loft's approach to pattern familiarity building through the application of Haudenosaunee-style sung vocables, clay pattern replication and Kanien'keha language layering.

In an exchange of creative methodologies, the Toronto shards are treated with the same approach, working with guests to make meaning and memory from the patterns buried under this city.