The Power Plant

Exhibiting artist Jeneen Frei Njootli presents a live performance combining vocalizations with sound generated from an amplified caribou bone violin. The resulting immersive sonorous experience resonates throughout the building, leaving traces in the gallery’s architecture.

Njootli, who lives and works in their Vuntut Gwitchin homelands in Old Crow, Yukon, engages a practice that spans sculpture, regalia, performance, and sound, exploring Indigenous life and culture through materials that emphasize impermanence, protection, and intimacy. Their Fall 2025 exhibition at The Power Plant, The skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze, features textile-based sculptures, found objects imbued with personal and cultural histories, and interactive sound works that animate the gallery space.

This performance is part of Njootli’s broader exploration of ancestral memory, kinship, land relations, and the politics of sound and presence.