Public Artwork
Insurgent Messages
Alternate title:
Insurgent Messages for Canada
Artwork creator(s):
Heap of Birds, Edgar
Text author(s):
Heap of Birds, Edgar
Installation year:
2007
Remarks on location:
Ten bus shelters downtown
Text of the artwork:
[Text 1/6]
IMPERIAL
CANADA
WHERE
IS YOUR
STATUS
CARD?
INSURGENT MESSAGES FOR CANADA
HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS 2006
[Text 2/6]
IMPERIAL
CANADA
STOP
BLACK
ROBES
ABUSE
Text theme:
(Contesting) the legal status of Canadian Indians
Artwork theme:
Historical and contemporary injustice inflicted upon indigenous people at the hand of the Canadian government, calling attention to laws and practices that oppress indigenous communities
History:
The posters that constitute the artwork entitled Insurgent Messages (for Canada) were created for the Grunt Gallery. The artwork is part of a project incorporating four works, exhibited over the period of a year at the Grunt Gallery in Vancouver and elsewhere. Although the art project that encompassed Insurgent Messages (for Canada) and Native Hosts, Words, Trees, Chiapas / In Honor of EZLN and Wheels: Overlays is entitled Public Art for the Americas, each work is an individual event with a separate title.
Event: Public Art for the Americas
1-29 October 2007
1-29 October 2007
Artist's biography:
HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS Document(s):
Syndicate
