Jason Baerg
B.F.A. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Graduate Certificate in New Digital Media, George Brown / Ryerson, Toronto, Canada
M.F.A. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
PhD Candidate: Monash University
Tenured Professor OCADU in 2023
The Great Chief Star, a mission to heal water, commissioned for the Pan Am Path, 2015
The Great Chief Star, is an original 45 minute multi-media sunset performative presentation. Cree Cosmology is the central point of investigation in this new work. Cree Métis artist, Jason Baerg takes us on a journey in the four directions around the Earth, past the Moon, beyond Morning Star (Venus) and the Sun, to Kisci-Okima-Achak (The Great Chief Star). DJ, Michael Red enhances the experience as he composes an original music score. New masterworks are created by international acclaimed Mohawk choreographer and dancer, Santee Smith alongside Inuk contemporary performance artist Tanya Tagaq, who will co-pilot this flight with her unconventional approach to Throat Singing. Jason Baerg creates digital abstractions to punctuate this new media voyage, which will be projected behind the performers. The new media in collaboration with JS Gauriter serves to punctuate the dance gestures of Santee Smith and the vocal dynamics of Tanya Tagaq utilizing Xbox Kinect technologies.
