Working in community with his home territory Six Nations, Jackson 2bears Leween reimagines a series of site-specific large-scale multimedia artworks, created in the spirit and image of Haudenosaunee longhouses in a 3D virtual space in his work Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe. The project has been built using Co-Creation Studio’s exclusive access to a game engine beta platform.
“The longhouse is an enduring symbol of the strength of our Rotinonshonni (Iroquois Confederacy), as it signifies a way of living together as a League of Nations under the Great Law of Peace—the Kayanereh’kowa. Our enduring sense of community is mirrored in the longhouse structure; it is emblematic of our diverse creative and cultural practices, which are connected back to our traditional teachings as much as they are today animated by contemporary technologies and production techniques,” says 2bears Leween.