Insurgent Messages

Marie-Claude Langevin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:13:47 +0000

Artwork identification

Alternate title:

Insurgent Messages for Canada

Artwork creator(s):

Heap of Birds, Edgar

Artwork creator(s):

Heap of Birds, Edgar

Text author(s):

Heap of Birds, Edgar

Text author(s):

Heap of Birds, Edgar

Installation year:

2007

Remarks on location:

Ten bus shelters downtown

Artwork description

Source: Warren, Daina (2008), Edgar Heap of Birds. Public Art for the Americas, Brunt : Grunt Gallery in Print, n° 4, (sept)

Mention(s) légale(s) des illustrations:

Photo credits:

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

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

Dimensions

Other information

Artist's biography:

HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS

Document(s):

Edgar Heap of Birds. Public Art for the Americas

Présences du littéraire dans l’espace public canadien - Public Art for the Americas

Insurgent Messages