Moe Clark

âpihtawikosisâniskwêw (Métis/ mixed-settler) multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a 2Spirit singing thunderbird. Moe was born and raised in Treaty 7, and she is a proud member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. Currently she resides as a guest in Tio’tiá:ke/ Mooniyang/ Montréal (QC) where she works as an artist and educator. She works across disciplines of vocal improvisation, sound design, land-based oskapêwis facilitation (Elder support), and performance creation, to create work that centres embodied knowledge, 2Spirit Indigenous resurgence, and creative kinship.

Her last solo album “Within” toured across North America and her collaborative video poem “nitahkôtân” won best Indigenous language music video at the ImagiNative film festival. As a composer, Moe’s music and voice have appeared in documentaries, films, theatre and dance performances alike. She is the host of mâmawi musique, a weekly podcast on Espaces Autochtones (Radio Canada), highlighting Indigenous music around the globe. She is co- founder of Weather Beings, a 2Spirit International performance collective with Mâori artist Victoria Hunt, examing intersections of Métis wâhkôhtowin and Mâori whakapapa (kinship systems) by asserting a critical position to reclaim, restore and rematriate feminine and queer knowledges into performance practices.

Currently Moe is a Masters Candidate at Concordia University in the Individualized Program, examining the resurgent practices of 2Spirit drum carriers in community. She has performed the world over, including the Lincoln Centre (US), UBUD Writers & Readers Festival (ID) and Origins Festival in London (UK). www.moeclark.ca