Public Artwork
Native Hosts
Location:
Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2H7, Canada
See map: Google Maps
Artwork creator(s):
Heap of Birds, Edgar
Text author(s):
Heap of Birds, Edgar
Installation year:
1991
Remarks on location:
On the edge of the lawn, in front of the gallery.
Description:
Native Hosts consists of 12 aluminum signs that reference the relationship between First Nations and British Columbia.
Text of the artwork:
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
MUSQUEAM
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
LIL’WAT
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
SQUAMISH
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
LILLOOET
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
GITKSAN
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
NUU’CHAH’NULTH
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
WET'SUWET'EN
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
HEIDA
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
?
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
?
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
?
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TODAY YOUR HOST
IS
?
Text theme:
Acknowledgement of Native rights to claim land in British-Columbia
Artwork theme:
The dispossession of Native people from the land, the struggle of Native North American people for land title, the questioning of the legal administration of the land in British Columbia.
History:
1. History:
Event: Lost Illusions: Recent Lanscape Art, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery (Curator: Denise Oleksijczuk).
Nov 2-Dec 29 1991
Event: Lost Illusions: Recent Lanscape Art, organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery (Curator: Denise Oleksijczuk).
Nov 2-Dec 29 1991
2. History:
• The artwork is part of a project incorporating four works, organized by the Grunt Gallery and exhibited in turn for one year at a gallery in Vancouver and elsewhere. Although the art project encompasses 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.
• The artwork is part of a project incorporating four works, organized by the Grunt Gallery and exhibited in turn for one year at a gallery in Vancouver and elsewhere. Although the art project encompasses 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.
• Artwork sited at 12 different locations across the Northwest sector of the UBC campus, 2007.
Dimensions:
Height:
1.54m
Width:
0.91m
Artist's biography:
HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS Document(s):
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