Generating Knowledge
Explore what we have learned together and are still in the process of learning from our artists collaborators and other partners in the art system. We strive to capture the distilled knowledge from specific events that we have held. We also commission essays, podcasts and videos that enhance, amplify and sometimes complicate this new knowledge. We assert that IBPoC issues in the arts are complicated, as they are entangled in colonial history. Decolonization in the arts will not happen quickly.
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The arts milieu regularly erupts into controversies over issues of cultural appropriation. This is usually followed by a stale debate in which cultural appropriation is understood, both by popular media coverage and within artistic commu...
Just as art is inevitably intermingled with culture, it is also intertwined with history. For Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires, we foreground the history of the last 500 years, the history of colonialism in Canada and its impact on ho...
Intersectionality, as a concept, originated in the USA, Black feminist movement of the 1980’s. Most scholars credit Kimberlé Crenshaw for first using the term to elaborate the experience of African-American women - the reality of their ...
We know that Indigenous, Black and people of colour make art. What does that look like? Is it really that different than European-influenced art forms? What is the role that race, ethnicity and cultural background play in art practice...
