Martha Stiegman is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and scholar and whose documentaries and independent shorts have screened in festivals internationally from Türkiye and Brazil to New Zealand. CLUB CONCUSSION is part of her most recent body of work, exploring the psychological experience of concussion following a series of life-changing injuries in 2016. Ethical collaboration and participatory process are at the heart of her creative approach. Working with Indigenous artists, scholars, and land defenders, she has created films that centre treaty relations, food, sovereignty and solidarity. Her collaborative films include KISKISIWIN | REMEMBERING (with Jesse Thistle), HONOUR YOUR WORD, IN DEFENSE OF OUR TREATIES (with Sherry Pictou), SEEKING NETUKULIMK (with Kerry Prosper) and BY THESE PRESENTS: PURCHASING TORONTO (as co-director to Ange Loft) presented at the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art.
Martha is also an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change at York University. As a writer, she has published in a range of research areas examining Indigenous-settler treaty relations, food sovereignty, disability justice, and arts-based research methods. She has authored over 20 articles and chapters and is a co-author of the book A TREATY GUIDE FOR TORONTONIANS published by the Toronto Biennial of Art & Art Metropol.

Artist Code: 929