Neecheemus
Photo credit:
Antoine Raymond
What if love and pleasure were also territories to be decolonized?
Neecheemus is a word in the Cree language meaning “my sweetheart.” With Neecheemus, artist and director Émilie Monnet brings together several Indigenous women artists for a free and daring exploration of love, eroticism and pleasure. Through intimate words, artistic gestures and spontaneous expressions, voices from different generations meet, respond to one another and share their visions of desire and intimacy.
Carried by the music of Anachnid and Frannie Holder, and the video projections of Caroline Monnet, this creation gives shape to a vibrant, sensual and unruly space where personal stories intersect with collective memories.
Rooted in the languages, histories and traditional knowledge of their communities, these understandings of love and sexuality open up perspectives that challenge dominant narratives. Far from representations that too often reduce Indigenous women to the impacts of colonization, Neecheemus makes room for desire, joy, freedom and reclaiming oneself. In a world still marked by sexual violence and power imbalances, the show makes love and eroticism spaces of resistance, healing and transformation.
Carried by the music of Anachnid and Frannie Holder, and the video projections of Caroline Monnet, this creation gives shape to a vibrant, sensual and unruly space where personal stories intersect with collective memories.
Rooted in the languages, histories and traditional knowledge of their communities, these understandings of love and sexuality open up perspectives that challenge dominant narratives. Far from representations that too often reduce Indigenous women to the impacts of colonization, Neecheemus makes room for desire, joy, freedom and reclaiming oneself. In a world still marked by sexual violence and power imbalances, the show makes love and eroticism spaces of resistance, healing and transformation.