Humor as a tool for subversion: effective?
Today, in class, the question was posed (after examining the use of humour in artists work such as Gerald McMaster and Carl Beam) wondering whether the use of humour as […]
Today, in class, the question was posed (after examining the use of humour in artists work such as Gerald McMaster and Carl Beam) wondering whether the use of humour as […]
“I decided that instead of looking outside for a hero, I would become one” -Rosalie Favell Like an autobiography, self-portraits act as means by which to exert control over self-image…where one […]
With every passing of Halloween, my mind buzzes noticing the countless amounts of people who derive both humour and excitement from appropriating elements of Aboriginal culture and turning it into […]
Northwest coast artist Nicholas Galanin’s “Raven and the First Immigrant” is a striking sculpture, both in isolation and in juxtaposition with Bill Reid’s “Raven and the First Man” with whom […]
Bob Boyer’s “F.U.S.Q – Tanks for the Memories” is a piece that avidly stands out to me due to its contemporary political characteristics; a piece expressing a socio-political standpoint that […]
The title of this blog, “Decolonize the Narrative,” refers to the deliberate action of decolonizing and reclamation that contemporary Aboriginal art accomplishes. In its existence and expression, contemporary Aboriginal art […]