10,000 Drowned: Commemorating the Caribou

A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, University of Regina. 57 p. This exhibition commemorates a caribou herd that drown during their fall migration in 1984. The disaster occ...

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Main Author: Orr, Margaret Grace
Other Authors: Garneau, David, Streifler, Leesa, Chambers, Ruth
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10294/9236
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spelling ftunivregina:oai:ourspace.uregina.ca:10294/9236 2023-10-09T21:50:44+02:00 10,000 Drowned: Commemorating the Caribou Orr, Margaret Grace Garneau, David Streifler, Leesa Chambers, Ruth 2020-01 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10294/9236 https://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/9236/Orr_Margaret_MFA_VA_Spring2020.pdf en eng Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina http://hdl.handle.net/10294/9236 TC-SRU-9236 https://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/9236/Orr_Margaret_MFA_VA_Spring2020.pdf Thesis 2020 ftunivregina 2023-09-16T22:14:42Z A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, University of Regina. 57 p. This exhibition commemorates a caribou herd that drown during their fall migration in 1984. The disaster occurred when Hydro-Quebec opened the Caniapiscau reservoir spill gates two hundred and seventy miles upstream from Limestone Falls on the Caniapiscau River. This caused the river level to rise and send a torrent of water towards the Ungava Bay. At their traditional river crossing, thousands of caribou were swept over the falls and drowned. This paper supports my MFA graduating exhibition, 10,000 Drowned, installed in The Fifth Parallel Gallery from November 25 to December 6, 2019. 10,000 Drowned is an installation of six large oil paintings representing the land, sky, water, fire, four directions, and the migration of caribou. There are also four large ceramic vessels representing air, water, land, and fire, and one hundred ceramic antlers representing the lost caribou. In addition, a video installation shows the caribou’s point of view as they travel over the land and then drown. The exhibition is my delayed response to my anguish over this disaster. I grew up on the land situated around the Chisasibi River in Northern Quebec. Through my Cree and Inuit relatives, I absorbed a lot of knowledge about how to live with the land and animals; how to survive using only basic of tools. These teachings come from how we relate with the natural environment and with one another. This paper describes my life and community. This background is essential to understanding the meaning of the caribou and this event in our lives. Through stories and by reflecting on my research process, I hope to offer insight into how contemporary forms of Indigenous art-making continue from traditional Cree knowledge practices. I returned to the site of the drownings many times. I mapped the caribou migration territory from a bird’s-eye view. I talked ... Thesis Chisasibi inuit Ungava Bay oURspace - The University of Regina's Institutional Repository Ungava Bay ENVELOPE(-67.489,-67.489,59.498,59.498) Chisasibi ENVELOPE(-78.333,-78.333,53.667,53.667)
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description A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, University of Regina. 57 p. This exhibition commemorates a caribou herd that drown during their fall migration in 1984. The disaster occurred when Hydro-Quebec opened the Caniapiscau reservoir spill gates two hundred and seventy miles upstream from Limestone Falls on the Caniapiscau River. This caused the river level to rise and send a torrent of water towards the Ungava Bay. At their traditional river crossing, thousands of caribou were swept over the falls and drowned. This paper supports my MFA graduating exhibition, 10,000 Drowned, installed in The Fifth Parallel Gallery from November 25 to December 6, 2019. 10,000 Drowned is an installation of six large oil paintings representing the land, sky, water, fire, four directions, and the migration of caribou. There are also four large ceramic vessels representing air, water, land, and fire, and one hundred ceramic antlers representing the lost caribou. In addition, a video installation shows the caribou’s point of view as they travel over the land and then drown. The exhibition is my delayed response to my anguish over this disaster. I grew up on the land situated around the Chisasibi River in Northern Quebec. Through my Cree and Inuit relatives, I absorbed a lot of knowledge about how to live with the land and animals; how to survive using only basic of tools. These teachings come from how we relate with the natural environment and with one another. This paper describes my life and community. This background is essential to understanding the meaning of the caribou and this event in our lives. Through stories and by reflecting on my research process, I hope to offer insight into how contemporary forms of Indigenous art-making continue from traditional Cree knowledge practices. I returned to the site of the drownings many times. I mapped the caribou migration territory from a bird’s-eye view. I talked ...
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