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Today is the Native Day of Action and Via Rail has shut down service between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Might be a good day to browse around at Mohawk Nation News. Links below to two recent articles by Kahentinetha Horn.
"Thomas Walkom wrote today in the Toronto Star that the conservative government plans to give U.S. police agents carte blanche to carry guns in Canada. Last June 2006 undercover U.S. agents [U.S. Border Patrol and ATF] were caught monitoring the Six Nations standoff at Caledonia. Their presence was exposed publicly only after native protestors hijacked their car. Strangely, there was no political or public outcry over what would once have been considered a unconscionable violation of Canadian sovereignty. Instead our men were charged with interfering with these agents foreign to Canada." more..
"Our Indigenous eyes are wide open. That’s what June 29th is about. We know the reality and the legality, in your law and in ours. We are breaking the chains of colonialism for good. You can never put them back on us. You never had the moral high road, including the 401, the old number 2 and the CN. These enterprises and yourselves are all trespassing on our land." more...
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Jonah and the Whale oil on canvas board 26" x 30"
Archangel Michael oil on canvas board 24" x 30"
Behind The Veil oil on canvas board 16" x 20"
John's Revelation oil on canvas board 26" x 30"
Batman acrylic on comic art board 11" x 17"
A link to System Displacement by Oliver Laric.
sonar: S.U.R.G.E.: wade 2006 Ingrid Bachmann, Lorainne Oades and Ana Rewakowicz
I 've had a sneak preview of the WADE catalogue (since I wrote for it) and it's gorgeous. Come to the launch on Friday! - Sally
This summer brings you the first ever catalogue for WADE. In the spirit of WADE as a community event, bigger than the sum of its parts, we have invited audience members from each of the WADE installations to share their responses to the project. The catalogue's 56 pages offer full documentation of the event as well as essays by the curators, Christie Pearson and Sandra Rechico and by Artist/Curator/Writer Sally McKay.
Wade 2006 featured work by Atanas Bozdarov and Tomasz Smereka, Peter Chin Louis Laberge-Côté, Leah Decter and Michael Caines, Sandra Gregson, John Greyson and Margaret Moores, Marcia Huyer, Yam Lau, Hazel Meyer, Tony Stallard, Michele Stanley, Theodor Pelmus and Eugenio Salas, Chrysanne Stathacos, Fabian Winkler and Shannon McMullen, S.U.R.G.E. (Lorraine Oades, Ingrid Bachmann, Ana and Rewakowicz) and Nick Tobier.
Contributers are John Armstrong, Marcus Boon, Diane Borsato, Steve Chodoriwsky, Jon Davies, Hannah Evans, Tara Gonder, Sunny Kerr, Juliet Palmer, Kym Pruesse, Aubrey Reeves, Lisa D. Smith, Tegan Smith, Amy Stewart and Krys Verrall.
The WADE 2006 catalogue was designed by The Office of Gilbert Li.
WADE gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, The Ontario Arts Council and The Toronto Arts Council.
The launch will be at YYZ artists Outlet, 401 Richmond Street West, Friday June 29 8-11 pm