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 […]
2 June 2020 Job Advertisement: Media/Web Content Specialist The Inuvialuit Living History Project is looking for a research assistant with media preparation and web development skills to support Phase 2 Content development of the innovative online digital heritage project Inuvialuit Living History (www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca). This project was initially launched in 2012, and documents the Smithsonian’s MacFarlane […]
The journal BC Studies has published a wonderful review of Lisa Jackson’s Transmissions exhibition, by Karlene Harvey. “This new body of work weaves interdisciplinary themes regarding society, nature, Indigenous languages, and ecological futures. Lisa Jackson is Anishinaabe from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation and she has an impressive filmmaking practice spanning twenty years. The multimedia format […]
Congratulations to Making Culture Lab PhD alumna Dr. Claude Fortin, who worked with Prof. Jim Bizzochi and Dr. Kate Hennessy to develop this close reading of the award winning Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit A Journey into Time Immemorial (Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology). This essay was originally developed as a graduate […]
Our chapter, written by the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective (Kate Hennessy, Trudi Lynn Smith, Fiona P. McDonald, Craig Campbell, and Stephanie Takaragawa), “Ethnographic Terminalia: Co-Curation and the Role of the Anecdote in Practice” has just come out in the volume The Anthropologist as Curator, edited by Roger Sansi. Bloomsbury Press. About The Anthropologist as Curator Why […]
Congratulations to Kate Hennessy on being awarded the 2019 Simon Fraser University Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology Research Excellence Award for Participatory and Collaborative Research, awarded to a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in research co-creation. Also from SIAT, Dr. Alissa Antle was presented with the Distinguished Researcher Award, awarded to a faculty […]
Vancouver, B.C. is known as Terminal City, the end of the railways and pipelines where land meets the Pacific Ocean. It is the terminus, the boundary, the border. It is a city on unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territory, a place grappling with colonial ruptures, cultural continuities, and new beginnings. In 2009, […]