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Videography by Rajat Nayyer
Sensorium, VISTA and The Peripheral Visions Speaker Series Presents:
Dreams, Visions and Hallucinations: Disability and Other Ways of Seeing
March 6, 2019 | 4:00-5:30 pm in the Joe G. Green Theatre
Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning hosts a public conversation with Traditional Doctor and Elder Mona Stonefish on Anishinaabe dream imaging practices and their implications for critical disability studies. Manning worked with her mother and Stonefish in developing her mnidoo theory of consciousness. This interrelational understanding of perception and knowing involves a possession by these living potencies, along with an expanded understanding of vision. In this discussion, Stonefish and Manning question western conceptions of ability and disability, while also considering the debilitating impact of colonialism.
Elder Mona Stonefish
Anishinaabe Elder Mona Stonefish (Bear Clan) is a Doctor of Traditional Medicine and an international activist for peace, Indigenous, women’s, anddisability rights. She is a former Senator of the Anishinaabemowin Teg – language preservation, a Keeper of Wisdom, and a Grandmother Water Walker. Stonefish is also a member of the Native American Museum of Washington D.C., a member of the Art Gallery of Windsor Board of Trustees, a traditional dancer, and recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2013). She was honoured with the prestigious Clark Award for her contributions as an advocate focused on the role of human rights, restorative justice and education, and as an advisor to Windsor Law on Indigenous matters (University of Windsor, 2016). She was also recognized with the 2017 Journey Toward Success Visionary Award. In their extensive travels, she and her granddaughter Sky Stonefish support and teach one another, confront discrimination and fight to tear down barriers together.
Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, PhD
Manning is a member of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation, an Anishinaabe artist, scholar and youngest of twelve. Currently, she resides in Toronto and is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan State University (Philosophy, 2018-2020). Manning received a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Theory and. Criticism at the University of Western Ontario (2018), and holds graduate degrees in critical theory (MA, UWO, 2005), and in contemporary art (MFA, Simon Fraser, 1997), and a BFA in Fine Arts (University of Windsor, 1994). She works at the intersection of Anishinaabe ontology and epistemology, critical theory, phenomenology, and art. Manning has chapters published in Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze/Guattari and the Arts, eds. Antonio Calcagno, et al. (Rowman and Littlefield 2014), and Feminist Phenomenology Futures, eds. Helen Fielding and Dorothea Olkowski (Indiana UP 2017).