Sharing Insights
Search through a curated selection of relevant links that will expand as we sift through the extraordinary wealth of research - texts, videos, audio - that has already been developed by IBPoC artists, elders and scholars. We genuinely do not believe that we have ‘all the answers’, but we hope to pose some of the ‘right questions’. We are acutely aware that knowledge transfers through oral traditions - in interviews, conversations - over dinner or a drink - and especially in the context of ceremony.
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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...
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...
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 ...
Reconciliation is a complex word, a complex idea and a complex agenda. In this heading, we deliberately spell it as (Re)Conciliation to highlight the word ‘conciliation’. It seems to us that in order to have reconciliation, there must ha...
We are primarily interested in decolonization of the arts, although it is impossible to completely dissociate decolonization from its historical roots in the post World War 2 political context. In this usage, decolonization refers to na...
