Rethinking visual and material histories of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized disapora in the contested white settler state of Canada Bringing together fifteen scholars of art and culture, Unsettling Canadian Art History addresses the visual and material culture of settler colonialism, enslavement, and racialized diasporas in the contested white settler state of Canada. This collection offers new avenues for scholarship on art, archives, and creative practice by rethinking histories of Canadian colonialisms from Black, Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit perspectives. Writing across many positionalities, contributors offer chapters that disrupt colonial archives of art and culture, excavating and reconstructing radical Black, Indigenous, and racialized diasporic creation and experience. Exploring the racist frameworks that continue to erase histories of violence and resistance, Unsettling Canadian Art History imagines the expansive possibilities of a decolonial future. Unsettling Canadian Art History affirms the importance of collaborative conversations and work in the effort to unsettle scholarship in Canadian art and culture. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction: Unsetting Canadian art history / Erin Morton -- Part One: Unsettling settler methodologies, re-centring decolonial knowledge -- White settler tautologies and pioneer lies in Mi’km’ki / Travis Wysote and Erin Morton -- Notes to a nation: Teachings on land through the art of Norval Morrisseau / Carmen Robertson -- Embodying decolonial methodology: Building and sustaining critical relationality in the cultural sector / Leah Decter and Carla Taunton -- Silence as resistance: When silence is the only weapon you have left / Lindsay McIntyre -- Part Two: Excavating and creating decolonial archives -- Truth is no stranger to (para)fiction: Settlers, arrivants, and place in Iris Ha¨ussler’s He Named Her Amber, Camille Turner’s BlackGrange, and Robert Houle’s Garrison Creek Project / Mark A. Cheetham -- “Ran away from her Master…a Negroe Girl named Thursday”: Examining evidence of punishment, isolation, trauma, and illness in Nova Scotia and Quebec fugitive slave advertisements / Charmaine A. Nelson -- “Miner with a Heart of Gold”: Native North America, Vol.1 and the colonial excavation of authenticity / Henry Adam Svec -- Excavation: Memory work / Sylvia D. Hamilton -- Part Three: Reclaiming sexualities, tracing complicities -- Bear grease, whips, bodies, and breads: Community building and refusing trauma porn in Dayna Danger’s Embodied 2Spirit Arts Praxis / Dorian J. Fraser, Dayna Danger, and Adrienne Huard -- Coming out a l’oriental: Diasporic art and colonial wounds / Andrew Gayed -- Indian Americans engulfing “American Indian”: Marking the “Dot Indians” Indianess through genocide and casteism in diaspora / Shaista Patel.
A collection of four simple squarish cotton bibs worn in ski competition. Crudely hemmed, with twill tape straps and tie. Name of race and entrance number printed on. (a) "1976, logo, 2235 Sunlife" printed in red and blue. Unhemmed with neck strap and waist ties. ( b) "1977 logo 3361 Sunlife", as…
A collection of four simple squarish cotton bibs worn in ski competition. Crudely hemmed, with twill tape straps and tie. Name of race and entrance number printed on. (a) "1976, logo, 2235 Sunlife" printed in red and blue. Unhemmed with neck strap and waist ties. ( b) "1977 logo 3361 Sunlife", as (a). (c) "Veteran Ski Race Tita's Trophy 40 Banff, Alberta 1976" printed in red with number stenciled in black. Neck strap and waist ties. (d) "Mount Norquay 7 logo of stylized "M" sitting on bar " printed in blue. Double bib for front and back with straps connecting over shoulders and waist ties. Shoulder straps knotted to shorten.
Medal in the shape of a maple leaf. Inside a decorative raised circle at the centre of the leaf, there is a snowshoer in profile facing to the left, with foliage visible in the background. Attached at the top of the medal is a striped red, white, and blue ribbon. The back of the medal is engraved w…
Medal in the shape of a maple leaf. Inside a decorative raised circle at the centre of the leaf, there is a snowshoer in profile facing to the left, with foliage visible in the background. Attached at the top of the medal is a striped red, white, and blue ribbon. The back of the medal is engraved with “1st Ladies Snowshoe Race Banff 1918”. At the bottom of the back surface there is an insignia with two small animal shapes.
A collection of three ski bibs. a — Rectangular cream-coloured ski bib with four safety pins in each corner, and reads: “10” in black block text. b — Square cream-coloured ski bib with four safety pins in each corner, and reads: “8” in black block text (w: 22.1 cm x l: 23.0 cm).c — Square cream-col…
A collection of three ski bibs. a — Rectangular cream-coloured ski bib with four safety pins in each corner, and reads: “10” in black block text. b — Square cream-coloured ski bib with four safety pins in each corner, and reads: “8” in black block text (w: 22.1 cm x l: 23.0 cm).c — Square cream-coloured ski bib with four safety pins in each corner, and reads: “12” in black block text (w: 21.7 cm x l: 22.9 cm).
Skier's racing bib "28 Veteran Ski Race". White bib with red trim and lettering. Twill tape from top edges to go over head, bottom edges have twill strips to tie around bodice. "Veteran Ski Race Tita's Trophy 28 Banff, Alberta 1967".
Skier's racing bib "28 Veteran Ski Race". White bib with red trim and lettering. Twill tape from top edges to go over head, bottom edges have twill strips to tie around bodice. "Veteran Ski Race Tita's Trophy 28 Banff, Alberta 1967".
File consists of 4 loose prints and 4 prints on matboard backings. Content pertains to early events and views in Calgary, including bicycle races in 1896 and [ca.1900], Calgary Stampede event decorations [1912] and parade [postcard print, ca.1920-1930], and a view of Castle Hotel and a nearby gas s…
Two photographs [PA-214 & 215] produced by Boorne and May Ltd. of Calgary
Date Range
1896
[ca.1900]
1912
[ca.1920-1930]
Physical Description
4 photographs : b&w ; 14.5 x 9 cm or smaller -- 4 photographs : b&w prints on matboard ; 17.5 x 24 cm and 18 x 13 cm
Scope & Content
File consists of 4 loose prints and 4 prints on matboard backings. Content pertains to early events and views in Calgary, including bicycle races in 1896 and [ca.1900], Calgary Stampede event decorations [1912] and parade [postcard print, ca.1920-1930], and a view of Castle Hotel and a nearby gas station in Calgary. File also contains scanned paper copies of photographs depicting scenes in Calgary between 1875 and [ca.1915-1920]. Paper copies include early panoramic and “downtown” views of Calgary prior to 1900, the unveiling of a Royal Northwest Mounted Police memorial plaque [1917?], and a parade scene [ca.1915-1920].
Notes
Scanned paper copies of photographs in file do not have individual reference codes; source of images and location of originals unknown.
File pertains to 56 b&w negatives of the parachute exhibition put on by the Canadian Armed Forces "Sky Hawks" at the Canmore Centennial celebrations on July 11, 1983 as well as the Canmore hayride in May, 1981. Includes shots of the crowds, soldiers, men with parachutes, helicopters, horse-drawn ca…
56 photographs : b&w negatives ; 6.1 x 18.8 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
See fonds level description
Scope & Content
File pertains to 56 b&w negatives of the parachute exhibition put on by the Canadian Armed Forces "Sky Hawks" at the Canmore Centennial celebrations on July 11, 1983 as well as the Canmore hayride in May, 1981. Includes shots of the crowds, soldiers, men with parachutes, helicopters, horse-drawn carriages, children, and more.
File pertains to 129 b&w prints of various Canmore events. Includes parades, dogsledding, biathlons, rodeos, various races, a man paragliding, various fires, the Canmore Centennial celebrations, Grassi Lakes, and interior shots of a building, possibly a new hospital.
File pertains to 129 b&w prints of various Canmore events. Includes parades, dogsledding, biathlons, rodeos, various races, a man paragliding, various fires, the Canmore Centennial celebrations, Grassi Lakes, and interior shots of a building, possibly a new hospital.