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Guadalupe Martinez Interview 1
Title
Guadalupe Martinez Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Embodiment, Performance Art, Poetic Intervention, Water
Date
2018-01-30
Description
In this clip, Guadalupe Martinez discusses how her Argentinian roots intersect with her current residence in Vancouver through the coast. She talks about how she conceptualises the human body in relation to bodies of water, and how she wants her art to embody this embodied experience.
Jordan Abel Interview 3
Title
Jordan Abel Interview 3: Clip 3
Keyword
Landscape / Skyline, Colonisation, Poetic Intervention
Date
2018-01-19
Description
In this clip, Jordan Abel delves into his writing process for Place of Scraps, particularly how he came to use erasure techniques on Marius Barbeau's text Totem Poles. From this a discussion ensues on how readers can, or should, approach and read Place of Scraps. Abel's poetry makes use of fragmented words and images alongside more traditional narrative (for an example, please refer to Jordan Abel's Reading).
Rita Wong Interview 2
Title
Rita Wong Interview 2: Clip 2
Keyword
Water, Poetic Intervention, Culture, Preservation, Embodiment
Date
2018-02-01
Description
Rita Wong explains that she hopes to foster empathy and generate cultural change through her poetry.
Jordan Abel Reading
Title
Jordan Abel Reading: "Of his own volition..." from The Place of Scraps
Keyword
Totem Poles, Poetic Intervention
Date
2018-01-19
Description
In this audio clip, Nisga'a writer Jordan Abel reads a short excerpt from his poetry collection Place of Scraps. The collection as a whole interrogates Marius Barbeau's role as an ethnographer in the early twentieth-century, and this scene in particular focuses on a totem pole moved from the Nass River Valley (Northern British Columbia) to a museum in Toronto as part of Barbeau's project.