Bio

Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning is a member of Kettle & Stony Point First Nation, an interdisciplinary artist, and a Queen's National Scholar in Anishinaabe Knowledge, Language and Culture in Film and Media and Cultural Studies at Queen's University. Her research interests include Anishinaabe onto-epistemology, art, phenomenology, and counter/collective memory. She brings storytelling, and community-engaged arts in dialogue with textual analysis, critical theory and mnidoo-knowing. Her research currently focusses on collective dreaming, language revitalization and cultural practices of barter and trade route exchange. Manning is co-director of the Peripheral Visions Co-Lab, a media arts research-creation lab that contributes to imaginaries for transitions beyond colonial modernity. Manning has exhibited at such venues as the Aga Khan Museum (2024, 2026), Available Light Film Festival (2026 Yukon), ImagineNative Film and Media Arts Festival (2023), Vector Festival (2024), Onsite Gallery (2023), the United Nations Conference on Water (2023), and Nuit Blanche Toronto (2022).