Œuvre d'art public

Native Hosts

Edgar Heap of Birds, Native Hosts, 1991
Edgar Heap of Birds, Native Hosts, 1991
Location:
Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2H7, Canada
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
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.

• Artwork sited at 12 different locations across the Northwest sector of the UBC campus, 2007.

Dimensions:

Height: 
1.54m
Width: 
0.91m
Document(s): 

Billboard. Art on the Road. A Retrospective Exhibition of Artists' Billboard of the Last 30 Years

Heon, Laura Stewart, Peggy Diggs, Dorin Lisa (1999).  Billboard. Art on the Road. A Retrospective Exhibition of Artists' Billboard of the Last 30 Years. Cambridge : MIT Press; North Adams, p. 106

Edgar Heap of Birds. Public Art for the Americas

Warren, Daina (2008).  Edgar Heap of Birds. Public Art for the Americas. <http://www.bruntmag.com/issue4/assets/brunt_issue4.pdf>Brunt : Grunt Gallery in Print. no. 4, p. p.35-38

Lost Illusions: Recent Landscape Art

Oleksijczuk, Denise (1991).  Lost Illusions: Recent Landscape Art. Vancouver : Vancouver Art Gallery, p. 52

Outdoor Art Tour. Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap Of Birds. Native Hosts

[Anonymous] (2009).  Outdoor Art Tour. Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap Of Birds. Native Hosts. <http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/outdoor/> : Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery / University of British Columbia

The Most Exciting Art Opportunity in the City. Carrall Street Greenway: Public Art Plan

Henry, Karen, Rita Beiks (2006).  The Most Exciting Art Opportunity in the City. Carrall Street Greenway: Public Art Plan. <http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/oca/publicart/pdf/carrallpublicartplan.pdf> : City of Vancouver