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Okotécho guides the listener into a sonic world brimming with hope, aspiration, and lyricism found in the exceptional interlude between the Middle East, Arboriginal and the West. Under the artistic direction of composer Katia Makdissi-Warren, Okotécho explores mixed music and musical sounds through its own compositions.
Moe Clark
Métis/mixed settler multidisciplinary artist
Presentation
âpihtawikosisâniskwêw multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a 2Spirit singing thunderbird. She fuses together vocal improvisation with multilingual lyricism to create meaning that is rooted in personal legacy, ancestral memory and embodied knowledge. Moe is a proud member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, currently residing in Tio’tiá:ke / mooniyang (Montreal). Her last solo album “Within” toured across North America and her video poem “nitahkôtan” won best indigenous language music video at the ImagiNative film festival. Apart from performance, Moe’s work as a creative facilitator and activist aims to remember and reconnect belonging to territories of land, body and voice through creative continuums of indigenous language immersion, song creation and ceremonial practice. Her work has appeared the world over, including the Lincoln Centre (US), UBUD Writers & Readers Festival (ID) and Sydney Opera House (AU). She has been collaborating with Oktoecho since 2015.