resurge/alight/burrow
This camp is a gift to the Indigenous community here, providing a space to come together, revive cultural knowledge, cocreate art, and experience healing ceremony, all while feeling safety in the midst of this urban environment. -- Jennifer Gougé, 2024.Anishinaabe artist Jennifer Gougé's resurge/alight/burrow installation is designed to honor and hold an Indigenous past, be in living relation with an Indigenous present, and breathe hope and strategy into an Indigenous future. First installed in 2024, Jennifer has returned to the resurge/alight/burrow camp each fall season to offer programming to indigenous and non-indigenous communities.
Projection Display
Dates: October 13, 27See Indigenous Futures Light up the Night projected on to the camp walls. The projection display will run 5:00-8:00pm, weather permitting.
Fall 2026 Program Schedule
All programming is by Jennifer Gougé and sponsored by Chippewa Valley Museum.Download the Fall 2026 schedule organized by date. Use the drop down lists below to explore by topic.
All programs will take place at the resurge/alight/burrow camp on museum grounds EXCEPT for the Planetarium on October 14 which will be held at the Children's Museum of Eau Claire.
Artist's Statement
This camp has been forming within me for years. Bringing it earthside is how I bring Indigenous futurism to my installation art. resurge/alight/burrow weaves traditional architecture with projection, sound, and photography, into a camp where I hold space for convergence, creation, and ceremony. I took inspiration from the pinhole effect of shining light through a narrow opening into a darkened area in order to make an image visible inside of it, and with the camp I’m investigating reversing that flow. So instead of bringing light into darkened, quiet lodges to mirror the outside world as it exists today, I place the light source inside of them so they are lit from within, and honor their voices by allowing them to project their own images and sounds out into a world that I would like to change. I’m pulling these projections in from the past and future as well as the present. -- JenniferAbout the Artist
From the artist's websiteJennifer is an Anishinaabe and Taíno transmedia artist who builds worlds through photography, illustration, installation, beads, and short fiction. She navigates levels of insulation in her work, working as an artist by day, a healer by night, and an author at sunrise. Enrolled in the Lac Courte Oreilles band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and the Higuayagua Taíno of the Caribbean, she draws deeply from personal and relational experience, regarding art as a toolkit for hope, resistance, medicine, and measured decomposition. She holds her degree in Studio Art from Dartmouth College as lock pick and disguise, using it to infiltrate institution and supplement her interrogation of a fine art world built on stolen land. Jennifer builds Indigenous futurist camps as mycelial wells of resource and replenishment, landing on settler-maps in “Eau Claire, WI” and “Nashville, TN”, and on real maps in Pakwewaang.