Search results

(1 - 5 of 5)
Stanley Park 98
Title
Stanley Park 98
Keyword
Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees, Colonialism
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of totem poles and trees. There is a sign stating "Please STAY OUT of the Totem Pole Area" at the bottom left of the shot.
Stanley Park 93
Title
Stanley Park 93
Keyword
Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of totem poles and trees with people walking and cycling on the paths.
Jordan Abel Interview 1
Title
Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
Keyword
Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
Date
2018-01-19
Description
In this clip, Jordan Abel discusses his relationship to Vancouver as a place and how his family histories and traumas are tied to Vancouver and the legacy of colonial violence. He discusses the placement of Indigenous art throughout Vancouver (and the totem poles in Stanley Park in particular) and the complexities around displaying Indigenous art and tradition in such a public space, weighing accessibility against voyeurism.
Stanley Park 96
Title
Stanley Park 96
Keyword
Totem Poles, Indigenous Culture, Relationality, Positionality, Trees
Date
2018-01-31
Description
Image of totem poles and trees with two people standing nearby.
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.