Public Artwork

Insurgent Messages

Edgar Heap of Birds, Insurgent Messages for Canada, 2007
Location:
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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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
Artist's biography: 
HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS
Document(s): 

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