Beat Nation: Art\, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture< /em> describes a generation of artists who juxtapose urban culture with Abo riginal identity to create innovative and unexpected new works that reflect the realities of Aboriginal peoples today. Organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery and based on an initiative of grunt gallery\, Vancou ver\, Beat Nation features painting\, sculpture\, installation\, performanc e and video. During its Montréal run\, the Musée d’art contemporain will ho ld a round table discussion on Thursday\, December 5 as well as a special N octurne on Friday\, November 1\, featuring madeskimo and Jackson 2bears. Be at Nation is co-curated by Kathleen Ritter\, Associate Curator (former)\, V ancouver Art Gallery\, and Tania Willard\, a Secwepemc artist\, designer an d curator. The Montréal presentation was coordinated by Mark Lanctôt\, Cura tor\, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
Since the early 1990s\, h ip hop has been a driving force of activism for urban Aboriginal youth in c ommunities across the continent. The roots of this music have been influent ial across disciplines and have been transformed to create dynamic forums f or storytelling and indigenous languages\, as well as new modes of politica l expression. In the visual arts\, artists remix\, mash up and weave togeth er the old with the new\, the rural with the urban\, traditional and contem porary as a means to rediscover and reinterpret Aboriginal culture within t he shifting terrain of the mainstream.
While this exhibition takes it s starting point from hip hop\, it branches out to include pop culture\, gr affiti\, fashion and other elements of urban life. Artists create unique cu ltural hybrids that include graffiti murals with Haida figures\, sculptures carved out of skateboard decks and live video remixes with Hollywood films \, to name a few. Beat Nation brings together artists from across the conti nent—from the West Coast as far north as Alaska\, as far east as Labrador a nd south to New Mexico—and reveals the shared connections between those wor king in vastly different places.
As Aboriginal identity and culture c ontinue to change\, and as artists reinvent older traditions into new forms of expression\, their commitment to politics\, to storytelling\, to Aborig inal languages\, to the land and rights remains constant\, whether stated w ith drum skins or turntables\, natural pigments or spray paint\, ceremonial dancing or break dancing.
Artists featured in the exhibition are: J ackson 2bears\, KC Adams\, Sonny Assu\, Bear Witness\, Jordan Bennett\, Ray mond Boisjoly\, Corey Bulpitt & Aime Milot\, Kevin Lee Burton\, Raven Chaco n\, Dana Claxton\, Dustinn Craig\, Nicholas Galanin\, Mari a Hupfield\, Mark Igloliorte\, Cheryl L’Hirondelle\, Duane Linklater\, made skimo\, Dylan Miner\, Kent Monkman\, Marianne Nicolson\, Skeena Reece\, Hok a Skenandore and Rolande Souliere.
This exhibition is co-curated by K athleen Ritter\, Associate Curator (former)\, Vancouver Art Gallery\, and T ania Willard\, a Secwepemc artist\, designer and curator.
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