UPDATE: postponed to next semester because Kate got the flu! 🙁 On February 23, 2017 3:00 – 5:30 p.m. at SFU Harbour Centre, Room 7000, Kate Hennessy will present work conducted with the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective, in conversation with Sabine Bitter (SFU School for Contemporary Art). This is part of a seminar series by the Centre […]
I (Kate) am very honoured to have been counted among an inspiring group of museum professionals and advocates as a 2017 “Changemaker” by the BC Museums Association’s magazine Roundup. Thank you also to SFU News for the article about this recognition. I have been so fortunate to be invited to join incredible teams with members of […]
Our digitalsqewlets.ca project team is proud to announce the official launch of our Virtual Museum of Canada online experience Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley. The launch of the website coincides with a complementary exhibition at the Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford, B.C., in the heart of Stó:lo territory. Please join […]
Bryan Myles Manager and Acting Director, The Bill Reid Centre THU, JAN 19 / 12:30PM SFU Gallery, Burnaby “I must ask you to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open…to join me among piles of volumes that are seeing daylight again…so that you may be ready to share with me […]
The Ethnographic Terminalia Collective, supported by MCL members Dr. Gabriela Aceves Sepulvéda (editing and graphic design layout), Dr. Hannah Turner (archival management), Reese Muntean (photography), Aynur Kadir (videography), and Rachel Ward, hosted the workshop ‘The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo-Essay!‘ at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Minneapolis (Nov. 17th […]
grunt gallery has just published a beautiful new catalogue documenting Geronimo Inutiq’s ARCTICNOISE exhibitions. The catalogue includes essays by Tarah Hogue, Christine Lalonde, Britt Gallpen, Yasmin Nurming-Por, cheyanne turions, and an interview with Geronimo Inutiq by Kate Hennessy.
Members of the digitalsqewlets.ca team have just published an article in the Journal of Social Archaeology called “Sharing deep history as digital knowledge: An ontology of the Sq’e´wlets website project” [link to pdf]. Abstract Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, and relation. This paper presents an ontology of the Sqé´wlets Virtual Museum of Canada Website Project, a […]
This special issue of Museum Anthropology develops a “critical history” of museum catalogues to position the documentation of material culture as a historical epistemological practice. Authors engage critically with emergent discussions concerning the formalization of knowledge about ethnographic material culture as it developed in the nineteenth century. Each article thus contributes to a wider conversation […]
Darren Byler and Aynur Kadir co-authored an essay on the blog Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia. Their essay “Ms. Munirä’s Wedding Gifts: Trolling Uyghur Elite Society” explores the mediation of Uyghur life through social media through the lens of a recent ‘viral video’ showcasing the presentation of wedding gifts, and the memes that it inspired.