Bear Witness, A Tribe Called Red, and Jackson 2Bears are just a few of the DJs that will be spinning at the Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby Street) after hours on Friday (February 24). The gallery’s latest FUSE event—called Beat Nation: Art Hip Hop, and Aboriginal Culture—brings live music, dance, and art to the city center for one night only from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Beat Nation performers include Jackson 2Bears, a Victoria-based Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) artist and DJ who will supply both music and visuals; multimedia artist and filmmaker Bear Witness, who will show off his DJ’ing skills at FUSE; DJ collective A Tribe Called Red, which remixes Native American drum circles with dubstep; Juno Award-winning Dedos, who is recognized as one of Canada’s graffiti and b-boy pioneers; Tlingit/Aleut multimedia artist Nicholas Galanin, who performs on guitar as Silver Jackson; and multidisciplinary Tsimshian/Gitskan and Cree artist Skeena Reece, who will bring humor through clowning.
FUSE tickets are $17.50 or free for VAG members. Tickets can be purchased in advance
online as a General Adult Admission ticket for February 24, or at the doors upon arrival at the event.
http://www.straight.com/article-611716/vancouver/georgia-straight-proudly-sponsors-fuse-beat-nation-art-hip-hop-and-aboriginal-culture
”Baliser le territoire”, au vernissage le 14 janvier 2012 à la Galerie Art Mûre
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“Stake in the ground”, opening night on Febuary 14, 2012 at Art Mûre Gallery
I have a solo exhibition called Things Are Looking Native, Native’s Looking Whiter, with all new work opening Feb. 3rd at Bunnell Street Gallery in Homer… a performance installation the eve of the opening and live music after w/ Silver Jackson and AKU- MATU
Check out this wonderful article in CandianArt!
My WSJ Piece on “Shapeshifting” at Peabody Essex: A Photo-and-Video Companion
Let me supplement this article with my own photographs illustrating the works that I discuss. Here’s the “may not be suitable for children” piece that opens the show (and my article). It sure looks kid-friendly, until you step inside. Good luck trying to restrain your kids from entering this alluring “tipi”:READ MORE
Interview by Lee Rosenbaum
Mapping the territory: Expression of contemporary Aboriginal art
January 14 to February 25, 2012
Opening: Saturday, January 14 15h to 17h
Mapping the territory: Expression of contemporary Aboriginal art : Sonny Assu, Jason Baerg, Carl Beam, Rebecca Belmore, Kevin Lee Burton, Hannah Claus, Bonnie Devine, Raymond Dupuis, Edgar Heap of Birds, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Nicholas Galanin, Greg Hill Robert Houle, Maria Hupfield, Rita Letendre, Glenna Matoush, Alan Michelson, Nadia Myre, Marianne Nicolson, Michael Patten, Arthur Renwick, Sonia Robertson, Greg Staats, Tania Willard, Will Wilson,
Guest Curator: Nadia Myre
A Native Culture’s Reach, Both Visual and Emotional
Link to New York times Article
…While much of the work by non-Indian artists lacks this kind of physical integrity, Nicholas Galanin, the Alaskan Tlinglit artist who works in various Conceptual Art modes, does muster some of it by wittily appropriating the rock-art technique especially favored by the Native Americans of the Southwest. Into the sidewalk in front of the gallery he has incised the silhouette of a small horned animal like those found on several objects inside, as well as the word “Indians” rendered in the distinctive script used by the Cleveland baseball team, but without the Indian caricature of the logo. Redolent of tattoos and graffiti, these works bring the fuel-efficient unity posed by the Native American works in this show squarely into the present.
