Aboriginal
Janice Toulouse, painter
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Paintings by Ojibwe painter Janice Toulouse, An artist and art instructor active in the Vancouver art scene since the 70's. ECU alumni and Sessional Instructor since 1997, the first of the Aboriginal instructors who formed the Aboriginal teaching curriculum at Emily Carr. This was a Solo exhibition of work that promotes the 'Preservation of traditional territory on Indigenous land.
Interlocutions
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Interlocutions derives from research concerning the use of printmaking technologies within Northwest Coast art in relation to Indigenous literary histories. These toner-based plotter prints depict texts written in response to works by Indigenous authors that negotiate the presence of the past within contemporary life.
Station to Station
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Exploring the politics of representation, Station to Station is comprised of abstracted film stills created through the productive misuse of technology. Sourced from Kent Mackenzie’s film, The Exiles (1961), These images are made by scanning the film while it is being played on a portable digital video player: turning moving images into still ones. The documentary style film follows a small group of Indigenous people living in Los Angeles. Over a twelve-hour period, the film records their candid discussions of home, community, and future.
Hidden Transcripts
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Hidden Transcripts utilize the black metal logos for Indigenous place names created for The Writing Lesson. This body of work is constructed using brown vinyl applied to the reverse side of a white tarp. Optically, the tarp becomes an obstacle to viewing the image.
As It Comes
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As It Comes re-assembles passages taken from three North American First Nations autobiographies: Black Elk Speaks, Yellow Wolf His Own Story and During My Time by Florence Edenshaw Davidson, my great grandmother. All of the texts tell of the legislation of indigenous rights amidst the coming of modernity, with each written as a personal account yet authored by and credited to someone else. Black Elk’s story is told by American poet John G. Neihardt, Yellow Wolf’s by Lucullus Virgil McWhorter and Edenshaw’s by Margaret B. Blackman.
As It Comes
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This public work was conceived to accompany As It Comes, a series of text works displayed in the windows of the Contemporary Art Gallery.
again and again then now and forever, from (And) Other Echoes
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Concerned with the process of image production and dealing directly with materiality, the works in (And) Other Echoes function at the threshold of visibility. Continuing the an examination into technological mediation and its capture of cultural and political intervals, the work takes Kent McKenzie's 1961 film The Exiles as a source material. The Exiles documents one night in the lives of young Indigenous men and women living in Los Angeles in the late 1950s.
an other cosmos (genesis)
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an other cosmos (genesis) is derived from a larger body of work concerning the presence of the past in the future. Drawing on research of Afrofuurism and science fiction, these images suggest the redeployment of imagery from the deep past in a long future.
Idle No More
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Adapted for the Idle No More movement to raise awareness around CITIZEN rights.
Our home on NATIVE land
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I originally created this design to express how I see this country we call 'Canada'. Canada is often referred to as a 'mosaic or tapestry of multiculturalism', and for me as a textile artist I thought it would be fitting to take the idea of a tapestry and the flag of Canada, and apply my own cultural and artistic practices to it.
I transformed the iconic Maple Leaf into a Raven; I chose Raven because he is known in many of our legends as a Transformer, a Messenger and a Trickster. I thought this would be an interesting and intentional use of symbols to challenge our thinking around the body politic and its intentions.
