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Exhibition

Beat Nation

April 21, 2009 to June 6, 2009
Exhibition
"Native graffiti art, Indigenized iPods@, Inuit break dancing, Indigenous language hip hop and video, Indian bling and urban wear: the roots of hip hop culture and music have been transformed by Indigenous vultures and identities into new forms of visual culture and music that echo the realities of Aboriginal people. Beat Nation is about music, it's about art, and it's about the spirit of us as Indigenous peoples and cultures." - Tania Willard

April 3, 2009 to May 8, 2009
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Title: ...as if a forest. "The work is "packaged" in a 10 step set of nonsensical directions generated by a fictional company. The directions explain how to create a sound experience of a forest. I begin the work with a performance in front of an audience on the first day of the show." Dmitry Strakovsky

February 20, 2009 to March 28, 2009
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" Andrea Cooper's single channel video installation , Fickle as Poison, uses nonconventional narrative combined with complementary photographs and text to retell a family story of desire and death."

January 9, 2009 to February 14, 2009
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"Claude Perreault's upcoming exhibition Elizabeth explores the artist's long-standing fascination with glamour while playfully subverting idealized representations within celebrity culture."

July 4, 2008 to August 2, 2008
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Enpaauk Andrew Dexel is a young emerging artist from the Nlakapmux Nation. His painting style mixes graffiti style with North West Coast design creating figurative and abstract images that speak to resistance and renewal. His beginnings as a graffiti artist is central to his style and since his switch from walls to canvas three years ago he has brought this energy from the street into his paintings. His work was featured in the Kamloops Art Gallery's exhibition Shazam earlier this year. His work is also featured at the Native Winds Gallery in Honolulu and has been published in Blood Lines Magazine. Gratitude will feature his original paintings on canvas "My work relates my spiritual path; my journey. I express the inspiration lovingly given to me through teachings and stories from my elders and mentors. My work embodies the powerful visions that I have been given through these teachings. I am grateful.My work is a modern expression embodying the symbolic abstract inspired by my home: Coast Salish Territory."

May 23, 2008 to June 28, 2008
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"For the The Hive-Dress , as in the first project (Les pensees-matiere) , we undertook the collection of spontaneous thoughts, written on thin stripes of paper.... AS in our previous work, these thoughts were sewn one after the other on a n indefinite ribbon, made from dyed scrap fabric coming from these same industries , pursuing our ritual of transforming thought into vibrant material." Audy and Faubert

April 4, 2008 to May 10, 2009
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"The photographs of Greg Staatsare concerned with what motivates thee act of viewing as it moves into the time and space of the real, in search of an encounter. The image becomes the 'freezing' of this gesture: a small moment in a continuum, a brief ending barely captured in the image." -Francois Dion

February 22, 2008 to March 29, 2008
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"Materiality and Otherness" looks at materiality from a phenomological perspective that draws on psyche projections and cultural sensibilities. From a culturally innate viewpoint, the materials and the process reflect the Anishnawbek traditional teachings, crafts, and cosmologies as well as notions of otherness of the uncanny."- Rolande Souliere