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 rue Hornby, 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: 

En périphérie de la pelouse devant la galerie

Description: 

Native Hosts se compose de 12 panneaux d'aluminium qui font référence à la relation entre les Premières Nations et la Colombie-Britannique.

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: 
Reconnaissance des droits autochtones aux terres de la Colombie-Britannique
Artwork theme: 
Dépossession des terres autochtones, lutte territoriale des Amérindiens, remise en question de l’administration légale des terres en Colombie-Britannique
History: 

1. Événement : Lost Illusions : Recent Lanscape Art, organisée par la Vancouver Art Gallery (commissaire : Denise Oleksijczuk).
2 nov-29 déc 1991

 

2.  L’œuvre s’encadre dans un projet incorporant quatre œuvres, organisée par la Grunt Gallery et exposées tour à tour au cours d’une année à la galerie et ailleurs à Vancouver. Bien que le projet artistique englobant Insurgent Messages (for Canada) ainsi que Native Hosts, Words, Trees, Chiapas/In Honor of EZLN et Wheels: Overlays s’intitule Public Art for the Americas, chaque œuvre est exposée individuellement dans un événement portant un titre distinct. 12 emplacements dans le secteur nord-ouest du campus de l’University of British Columbia. Événement : Public Art for the Americas
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