ANNOUNCEMENT

Revisioning the Indians of Canada Pavilion: Ahzhekewada

[Let us look back]
 

Saturday October 15, 2011 to Sunday October 16, 2011

Colloquium co-presented by The Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and hosted by the Aboriginal Visual Culture Program at OCAD University, this colloquium responds to and embodies the vision of the Indians of Canada Pavilion, (1967) and its continuing impact on indigenous art and cultural production today.

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CURATORIAL ESSAY

Cosmologies - anything that exists has a beginning by Daina Warren
This multi-media group exhibition, held at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary art from July 4 - August 8, 2009, deals with complex cultural systems created by four individual artists (Jason Baerg, Dana Claxton, Lewis deSoto, Richard Tawhanga Kereopa) from various Indigenous cultures. These systems of knowing the world display a diversity of cosmological interests through reflection on beliefs about the creation of the natural world, reflect spiritual practices, or show the different cultural applications based in time and space philosophies. Other systems provide access to the creator - all of which can be combined into a personal way of being or intervening space, adding to the understanding of self. DOWNLOAD PDF >

SHOUT OUTS 

This year's Canada Council Aboriginal Curatorial Residencies have been awarded to Rose Spahan (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria), Tania Willard (Grunt Gallery) and Jenny Western (Urban Shaman and Plug In). Candice Hopkins has been granted a curatorial residency through the Sobey Foundation at the National Gallery of Canada. Virginia Eichorn is the new director of the Tom Thomson Gallery and Dana Claxton has been awarded the Ruth Wynn Woodward Professorship in the Women's Studies Department at Simon Fraser University. Congratulations to Faye Heavyshield, a recipient of the 2009 Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Arts Award.

Winter Art Guide '09 

Stay warm and seek out, enjoy and support Aboriginal Art and related activities across Turtle Island and beyond. READ MORE >

Exhibitions '09 READ MORE >

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ACC PRESENTS

An electronic publication of Witness: A Symposium on the Woodland School An electronic publication of Witness: A Symposium on the Woodland School ACC's publication of the proceedings of the two-day event Witness: A Symposium on the Woodland School marks an important opportunity to further the awareness and appreciation for the discourse of Aboriginal art and curatorial practices in Canada. Held in conjunction with the exhibition The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig, a Retrospective Exhibition, curated by Bonnie Devine in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Sudbury, Witness attests to the positioning of one of our own disciplines in a local, national and global light. I would like to extend my gratitude to conference organizer Bonnie Devine, who single-handedly spearheaded and edited the on-line publication project when approached by the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC). Her dedication has enabled the ACC to obtain its goal of publishing and compiling a critical tool to analyze contemporary and historical aspects of Aboriginal art, in this case the Woodland School of Art. The documentation of Witness: A Symposium on the Woodland School would not have been possible without the contribution of the presenters. For this, the ACC is indebted to the authors whose diverse essays span and contextualize Aboriginal artistic, critical and curatorial practices. We hope that by providing the publication online for public consumption, it will serve as a valuable resource for those interested in the history of Aboriginal art. Finally, ACC would like to thank designer Tania Willard, web-master Patrick Tafoya, artist Daphne Odjig for her inspiration and presence at Witness and the Ontario Arts Council for their patience and vital financial support for this project. DOWNLOAD PDF >

RESEARCH

Rebecca Belmore's Performance of Photography By Amber-Dawn Bear Robe Creating works of art that implement an Aboriginal presence in the Canadian, American and international arts discourse from an Aboriginal perspective can be seen as a form of claiming identity, directing and portraying particular images and voices that do not adhere to the expected images and concepts of Native North Americans. Rebecca Belmore is one of those artists who demonstrate how, through her work, she is participating in redirecting, reforming and constructing representations of Indigenous peoples.
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REPORT

Scouting Venice By David Garneau A scouting party of Aboriginal curators including Guy Sioui Durand, Patricia Deadman, Leanne L'Hirondelle, Steve Loft and David Garneau were led by Jim Logan and sponsored by the Canada Council of the Arts to the 52 Annual Venice Biennale. READ MORE >