Films that speak to the Pandemic By Liam Sfaxi (English Translation of the French language original found here) Much like many other periods of instability in the history of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic shows humanity’s ability to adapt to the way of life that is currently permitted. One key example of adaptation is the […]
The Ethnographic Termialia Collective (Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Craig Campbell, Fiona P. McDonald and Stephanie Takaragawa) has published a chapter “Function and Form: the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective Between Art and Anthropology” in this exciting new book edited by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus. Collaborative Anthropology Today A Collection of Exceptions EDITED BY DOMINIC […]
On Dec. 11, 2020, Dave Schaepe (SRRMC), Kate Hennessy (SFU), Michael Blake (UBC), Natasha Lyons (Ursus Heritage) Clarence Pennier (Sq’ewlets First Nation), and Chief Johnny (Sonny) Williams Jr. (Sq’ewlets First Nation) gave an online seminar presentation as a part of the series Working Tools Seminar Series: Community-Facing Data Management Platforms for Indigenous-University Partnerships. Working Tools Seminar Series: Community-Facing Data Management Platforms for Indigenous-University […]
On Dec. 4th, 2020, Moving Images students at SIAT premiered 34 films on the Museum of Vancouver as a apart of their #isolatingtogetherMOV project and forthcoming exhibition. We also handed out some awards! See the awards ceremony and playlist of all the films here. Since 2015, the Museum of Vancouver has worked with Dr. Kate […]
We are pleased to see a new book chapter published. Schaepe, D., Lyons, N., Chan, A., Phillips, A., Hennessy, K. (2020) The Sq’éwlets Youth Origins Experience: Providing Tangible and Intangible Experiences of Ancestral Places and Belongings in Supporting Wellness among Indigenous Youth and Community In Object-based Learning and Wellbeing: Exploring Material Connections, Thomas Kador and Helen […]
MCL PhD student Tylar Campbell’s work was recently featured in Stanford University’s African and African American Studies’ publication The 2020 Project. Hear his contribution, an audio work titled Fugitive (The Race) here. About The 2020 Project (from the website) “The 2020 Project” is a Special Issue publication coordinated by the African & African American Studies Program at […]
Thank you to @canartca for including Sovereign Intimacies on their list of art to see this fall! Check out the entire list at canadianart.ca/features/art-to-see-this-fall/ 🧡 The video work Wrapped in the Cloud, by Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien) was produced in collaboration with Conrad Sly, Hannah Turner, Reese Muntean, and Kate Hennessy. “Wrapped in the Cloud © by […]
We are thrilled to join artist Lisa Jackson in launching Transmissions Expanded, an online portal to educational materials related to Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions art installation: an opportunity to dig deeper into the languages, the revitalization efforts and the cross-disciplinary thinking that animates the artwork. Transmissions Expanded gives a glimpse into what the Elders mean when they say “the culture is […]
1 My Teacher the Raven (2019) from Bill Reid Gallery on Vimeo. SIAT students in the class Moving Images (IAT344) produced 5 documentary films for the exhibition To Speak with a Golden Voice at theBill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, honouring renowned Haida artist Bill Reid’s 100th Birthday. Students worked under the guidance of Dr. […]
We excited to see the new redesigned issue of the journal Visual Anthropology Review! The cover image is drawn from Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith’s video To the Burning World (2018). It includes an exhibition review essay article by Jennifer Clare Robinson, discussing the 2019 exhibition Fugitives in the Archive by Kate Hennessy and […]