Welcome to Season 2 of Don River Radio! In this week's episode, co-hosted by Mare Liberum's Dylan Gauthier and Sunita Prasad, we speak with Toronto-based transdisciplinary performance artist Maria Hupfield and Evergreen curator Charlene K. Lau about their work and research in the Don Valley. Recorded in the fall of 2022, Hupfield has just been named the Inaugural ArtworxTO Legacy Artist in Residence by the City of Toronto and an Artist-in-Residence at the Brickworks. She collaborated with us on our year long public art project "In Which We Draw A People’s Map of the Don River" hosted by Evergreen Brickworks and Waterfront Toronto. Lau's work with Mare Liberum in 2022 wrapped with a day-long public on-water performance and activation of a water route from Cherry Beach to the mouth of the Don River. Guest Bios Maria Hupfield is a transdisciplinary maker working with Industrial felt at the intersection of performance art, design and sculpture. She is a 2020-2022 inaugural Borderlands Fellow for her project Breaking Protocol at The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School and the Center for the Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University, and was awarded the Hnatyshyn Mid-career Award for Outstanding Achievement in Canada 2018. She has exhibited and performed her work through her touring solo exhibition The One Who Keeps On Giving (organized by The Power Plant) 2017-2018, and solo Nine Years Towards the Sun, at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, 2019-2020. Amongst other places, she has also presented her work at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the NOMAM in Zurich, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Galerie de L’UQAM, the New York Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, the New York Museum of Art and Design, BRIC House Gallery, the Bronx Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Site Santa Fe, and the National Gallery of Canada. She is co-owner of Native Art Department International with her husband artist Jason Lujan, and a founding member of the Indigenous Kinship Collective NYC. Hupfield belongs to and is an off-rez Anishnaabek from Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario, Canada, and is a Canadian Research Chair in Transdisciplinary Indigenous Arts, with the Indigenous Creation Studio, Department of Visual Studies / English and Drama, at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Charlene K. Lau is an art historian, critic and Curator of Public Art at Evergreen Brick Works. She has held fellowships at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; Parsons School of Design, The New School; and Performa Biennial. Charlene has also held teaching positions at Parsons School of Design, OCAD University, Toronto Metropolitan University, Western University and York University. Her writing has been published in Art in America, Artforum, TheAtlantic.com, The Brooklyn Rail, C Magazine, Canadian Art, frieze, Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, Fashion Theory and Journal of Curatorial Studies, among others.