Not a Gift Shop: Arts-based Narratives of the Canadian North
This paper explores four visual culture projects arising from artwork created in or about the Canadian North. Edmund Carpenter’s meditations on early-1950s Eastern Inuit art are compared to the constellated works featured in the “Magnetic Norths” exhibition curated by Charles Stankievech that took p...
| Published in: | TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
2015
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/topia.32.111 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/topia.32.111 |
| Summary: | This paper explores four visual culture projects arising from artwork created in or about the Canadian North. Edmund Carpenter’s meditations on early-1950s Eastern Inuit art are compared to the constellated works featured in the “Magnetic Norths” exhibition curated by Charles Stankievech that took place in Montreal in 2010. These curatorial projects are analyzed in contrast to two media-based projects: a series of artist interviews and artwork presentations gathered in the 1998–2008 television and website production CBC ArtSpots, and the 2008 film Before Tomorrow, directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu. Narratives of the Canadian North engendered by these artworks are probed using the concept of creative citizenship, bringing them into dialogue with one another and with other presentations of the Canadian North. |
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