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= T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss = T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss is a Skwxwú7mesh, Stó:lō, Kanaka Maoli, Irish-Métis and Swiss multi-media artist, and ethnobotanist. She has been working with new media, performance and interdisciplinary arts for more than 30 years. Wyss also works with ancient techniques such as weaving, using indigenous plants for dyes, and focusing on a textiles art practice in wool cedar. Wyss is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast, is a beekeeper and community-engaged gardener in East Vancouver.

Career
Wyss recently co-authored Journey to Kaho'olawe, covering more than two centuries of the Kanaka family's migration to the Pacific Northwest coast. She was also a recipient of the City of Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for film and new media in 2010. Wyss is also a participant of the Vancouver Biennale 2016.

Transits and Returns, Vancouver Art Gallery (2019-20)
Shḵwen̓ Wéw̓ shḵem Nexw7iy̓ay̓ulh (To Explore, To Travel by Canoe) (2018) is a sculptural work that consists of a ceremonial cape, photographs and materials such as Lau hala, coconut hull fibre, seagrass, red cedar bark, wool, abalone shell, mother of pearl buttons that are used by makers from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Hawaiian territories.

x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓ New Growth «新生林», 221A Semi-Public 半公開 (2019-20)
Wyss’s project at Semi-Public 半公開, “x̱aw̓s shew̓áy̓ New Growth《新生林》,” is a site Wyss’s created during her 14-month fellowship with 221A. The empty lot at 271 Union Street, has become a Pacific Northwest Coast rainforest garden containing the local biodiversity of the unneeded lands of Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Different types of berries, shrubs such as oceanspray, Indian plum and kinnikinnick, and different types of flowers such as yarrow, wood sorrel and wild rose can be found there. This project is based on permaculture movements, which explores the interconnectivity in different forms of life and things in the ecosystem. It showcases the understanding of holistic  interconnectedness that Indigenous knowledge systems such as those of the Skwxwu7mesh, Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Stó:lō contain. The garden space is arranged with traditional Coast Salish elements. The space is recorded by two cameras 24 hours a day. The visuals can be accessed online through the Semi-Public website.

A Constellation of Remediation (2017-19)
A Constellation of Remediation is  a collaborative two-year long public art project that is on vacant and untended lots of the unceded homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Wyss and Anne Riley plants indigenous remediation gardens on specific sites based on decolonization work near locations through the Native Education College (NEC), Urban Native Youth Association (UNYA), and the Wild Salmon Caravan Residency and Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty. The process involved communication with developers, City and Parks staff, and the public which all built a connection to shift consciousness and awareness about bioremediation, land-stewardship, and reconciliation.

Other Works

 * Spill: Response (2019)
 * IM4 Indigenous VR Speaker Series (2019)
 * Vancouver Queer Arts Festival (2017)
 * Vancouver Biennale (2016)
 * ReMatriation and other ruminations, thirstDays, VIVO (2016)
 * The Gifting Taiontenonhwera:ton (to give thanks) Ceremonial Activism 101: thirstDays, VIVO (2016)
 * Spark: Fireside Artists Talk Grunt Gallery & Native Education College (2016)
 * The Picto Prophecy Project Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (2012)
 * Soul Gardens with W2 Community Media Arts (2011)
 * Talking Poles (2009) for the Surrey public art collection