Being in Place with Bridget Reweti\, Debra Sparrow\, Shannon Te Ao\, and Kamal a Todd will feature installation art\, moving image and Coast Salish design . Initiated by New Zealand curator Paula Booker\, the exhibition is about t he storying of land and relationships to place.
This project brings i nto the same place two artists from across the great Pacific Ocean in Aotea roa New Zealand\, and two artists who grew up here on the edge of that grea t ocean\, with strong and long ties to this territory. All four artists hav e stories to tell about place.
The Or Gallery’s iconic street-side wi ndows will be covered in a Coast Salish visual\, based on Debra Sparrow’s t raditional weaving\, so the whole exhibition will be entered through a xʷmə θkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) visual story-telling process that is local to here.
Installations by Shannon te Ao (Ngāti Tuwharetoa)\, and Bridget Reweti ( Ngāti Ranginui\, Ngāi Te Rangi) unravel colonial histories and express guar dianship using performance and experimental moving image. The works of thes e artists from Aotearoa New Zealand will be seen through and alongside the images and narratives of Musqueam artist Debra Sparrow and Vancouver-born M etis/Cree/German filmmaker Kamala Todd\, an urban geographer and filmmaker who has been commissioned to make a new film from her ongoing work to indig enize urban eyes\; to uphold relationships to the unceded Indigenous territ ories that Vancouver has been built upon.
The exhibition curator cons iders that “social relations to place are activated through a variety of na rrative methods that evoke context and relationship\, among people within s pace\, human and greater than human beings and the environment\, and betwee n time and place.” This exhibition includes artworks that articulate these ways of being in place. Booker believes that “as a curator of Anglo-Saxon h eritage\, from the South Pacific\, my own stories figure into erasure of In digenous narratives of place\, both at home and in my new home. This exhibi tion is an opportunity to bring to the fore territorial relationships and u phold sovereignty.”
Public critique with Tara Hogue to be hel d at 3pm May 14\, 2018
Image credits: Irihanga insta llation detail Bridget Reweti\, 2017.
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