FROM THE YANGTZE TO THE FRASER
by Jan Wong

"This work carries forward the idea of migrations by bringing the Yangtze and Fraser rivers together across the Pacific Ocean. They signify the coming together of peoples and cultures." READ MORE

VISHNU COMES TO CALL:
SECULAR AND SACRED IN A NORTH AMERICAN MUSEUM
by Stephen Inglis

"It is important to acknowledge a few of the challenges posed by such a project. The first is in conservation. “Posterity” has always been a justification for the long-term costs of maintaining the vast collections of museums." READ MORE

RITUAL ART AND LAW IN SALTWATER COUNTRY
by Moira G. Simpson

"The pattern is representative of his clan, the Apelech. Apelech refers to the areas of clear water that can be seen particularly in the dry season when the weather is calm and the silt has settled, leaving the shallow coastal waters clear and bright - a good time for spear-fishing." READ MORE

OUR ART IS OUR LIFE: THE POWER OF MARIANNE NICOLSON'S WORK
by Gerald Taiaiake Alfred

"Our art is our life, and to me the power of Marianne Nicolson’s work is not on display in drawn designs or shaped forms. What makes her an artist in my mind is her conscious engagement with the elements of her people’s culture and their homeland." READ MORE

TORTURED LANDSCAPES: TAMIL BELONGING AND DISPLACEMENT
by R. Cheran

"Forced displacements create a tormented diaspora, and the pain and trauma that accompany the Tamil diaspora will linger for a long time." READ MORE

REANIMATION, UPGRADES, AND ANCESTORS IN THE WORK OF ROSANNA RAYMOND
by Albert Refiti

"The work raises issues crucial to understanding a tension that often surfaces, under the guise of cross-cultural expression, between the traditional and contemporary in art." READ MORE

HORIZONS: DRAWING THE LINE
by Loretta Todd

"In Near Intervisible Lines, the histories and stories imagine a different geometry of time and place, told in a steady current of moving camera and framing off and then on again, editing from one story to the next, with soundscape and music." READ MORE

ASYMMETRICAL TRANSLATIONS: THE ART OF JOHN WYNNE
by Kate Hennessy

"These road signs represent one of many dynamics of translation in Anspayaxw. These are not literal, symmetrical translations but transformative inscriptions and reclamations of language, meanings of place, and culture." READ MORE

LO-FI, HI-FI, WI-FI: EDWARD POITRAS AND CELL
by Hank Bull

"Over lunch, Ed quipped that the message the Canadian government wanted to send to France was, “Hey, we’re so hi-tech in Canada, even the savages can do this stuff!" READ MORE

FACE À FACE / FACE TO FACE
by Pierre Petit

"This mechanical ballet is danced to the rythm of a soundtrack in the form of a dialogue between the two performers—the machinery and the freight." READ MORE

MEDITATION AND ALCHEMY: THE CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE OF LAURA WEE LÁY LÁQ
by Scott Watson

"But it reminds us that pots—especially of the kind that Wee Láy Láq makes—involve us in thinking about longer temporal arcs than those that encompass the lives of buildings, galleries and libraries. "
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