Skeena Reece

[1][3] She has also worked in administrative capacities such as the grunt gallery as a curatorial practices intern, founder of the Native Youth Artists Collective, and was Director of the Indigenous Media Arts Group from 2005 to 2007.

[1] For example, in her performance, Raven on the Colonial Fleet (2010), she “wears a corset, skirt and blanket designed with reference to traditional Northwest Coast Aboriginal Art and a feathered headdress referencing the Plains cultures.”[6] Reece uses such regalia to make a political statement and to overturn Indigenous gender roles, for example by wearing a headdress that is usually reserved for men.

[6] As well, in a 2008 performance for the National Museum of the American Indian based on an episode of the television show, Moesha, she dressed up as a nurse and asked the audience, "Does anyone want to share any feelings you have about being a colonizer?

Semchuk begins to tear up as Reece says “It’s okay, it’s okay.”[5] The film is influenced by her distant relationship with her parents, who were both Canadian Residential School survivors.

The film is meant to be an act of reconnection between mother and daughter, child and elder, “wanting to create a space in which touch, intimacy, and connection were animated, as well as a desire to perform a nurturing and loving act of bathing an elder inspired Reece to create this performance.”[5] She also starred in a prominent role in the short film "Savage" about residential schools, along with Ta’kaiya Blaney, Doug Blamey, and Jennifer Jackson.