MCL PhD student Claude Fortin’s 10-week ethnographic field study of Mégaphone, an interactive installation produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, created by Moment Factory and directed by Etienne Paquette, has been getting some nice shout-outs by the GRAND network and Simon Fraser University (here and here).
I had the pleasure of spending last weekend in Fort St. John, B.C. working with former Doig River First Nation chief Garry Oker and SFU PhD Candidate Rob McMahon to plan a documentary video that Mr. Oker will produce for the First Mile project, which is based in part at Simon Fraser University. The First Mile […]
“Because We Are Yong” (2011) Produced in collaboration with Wat Pratupa, Lamphun, Thailand. The Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School is an intensive, 2-week course offering a combination of lectures and a hands-on field practicum. Participants–heritage professionals and students from the Mekong Delta region––work in cross-cultural, interdisciplinary teams to apply their newly gained concepts and approaches […]
I will be teaching again this year in northern Thailand in the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School, which is being held for the third year in Lamphun, Northern Thailand, from August 8-21. The Field School is organized by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) in Bangkok, with support from UNESCO Bangkok. This year […]
In June 2011 I traveled north to Inuvik, where I spent a week working with my colleagues Mervin Joe (Parks Canada) and Catherine Cockney (Manager, Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre) to conduct consultations with local partners, community members, elders, and school children and teachers about the prototype of our work in progress, the Inuvialuit Living History […]
A full description of this project in progress can be found in our 2011 Project Report: The Inuvialuit Smithsonian Project: Winter 2009-Spring 2011 During our visit at the National Museum of Natural History in 2009, elder Albert Elias described the MacFarlane Collection as a “living collection”. As curator Stephen Loring pulled intricate and beautiful items […]
Tonight the grunt gallery launched its newly renovated and totally wired gruntKitchen Media Lab. They have transformed their old kitchen space into a new lab for development and exhibition of new media works, performance, and a range of educational programming. The space is flexible and modifiable and ready to support many future projects, exhibitions, and conversations… The gruntKitchen […]
On January 25th, the exhibit Entwined Histories: Gifts from the Maisie Hurley Collection will open at the North Vancouver Museum (Presentation House). This exhibit is remarkable as the first curatorial partnership between the North Vancouver Museum and Archives and the Squamish Nation. It was curated by Dr. Sharon Fortney and Damara Jacobs, and beautifully conveys […]
The North Shore News recently wrote this article about the upcoming exhibit Entwined Histories: Gifts from the Maisie Hurley Collection. The exhibit is curated by Dr. Sharon Fortney and Damara Jacobs, and represents the first collaboration between the North Vancouver Museum and Archives and the Squamish Nation. Entwined Histories will exhibit a selection of the […]
From Nov. 7th to Dec. 4th, my ethnographic video collaboration with media artist Richard Wilson, Active Pass to IR9, will be a part of the exhibition Ethnographic Terminalia at the DuMois Gallery in New Orleans. Full disclosure: I am a part of the Ethnographic Terminalia curatorial collective, a group that formed to explore the disciplinary […]