Before deciding whether or not to move the piece out of Stanley Park, however, S7aplek and Tafferemained open to working with the Park Board to have their performance happen in the park, in agood way, and without conceding their position.
I wonder if there is anywhere only we can watch these performances?
Using “Skemelh Slulem” as a prayer for Aeriosa’s safety is not only an example of using ancientsongs to ancestralize the present; it also illustrates the continuity of his people’s practice of writingtheir engagement with the wider population of what is now known as Vancouver into their songs anddances.
I feel like the indigenous cultures were really peaceful. The idea of appreciating every little things can make one very happy. Their culture kind of feels like different types of mediation to me
One of S7aplek’s ancestral songs “Siyam Slulem” illustrates theways in which inherited songs engage with wider political realms
Again, I searched up the song Siyam Slulem on google and found little to nothing about it. I am surprised that with modern technology it doesn't appear on google showcasing how history can be erased.
So we tried to figure out how we can usethe songs, where, what the songs represented, and how we can choreograph danceswith those songs in the various landings and long houses. So that was part of ourhomework.
I am surprised by how little we are thought about indigenous cultures in schools and even in media. I rarely see any movies including their culture. This is heart breaking to see.
While participating on journeys throughout the South Pacific, S7aplek witnessed andparticipated in Kanaka Maoli canoe protocol. Much of it, he noticed, was similar to Chiax, as wellas the canoe protocols of other Northwest Coast First Nations peoples.
It is interesting to see how little history books talks about this culture. Even after searching up on google I found very little information about what Kanaka Maoli canoe protocol even means.
Beforemy analysis, I must make clear that as a Tsimshian First Nations dance artist myself, I have personalconnection to dance artists and dance groups throughout the Northwest Coast.9
I feel like stating this here in this part of the article helps us understands the narrator's point of view even more clearly.
My theorization ofdancing sovereignty is a confluence of my engagement with the literature on visual sovereignty,5Anishinaabe scholar Gerald Vizenor’s concept of transmotion,6 and Canadian philosopher anddance artist Erin Manning’s work on relationscapes.7
I feel like the meaning of sovereignty dancing is to express oneself through the movement, interpreting their own personal stories. It is a different style of dance for everyone?
The handling of artworks from the KADIST collection impressed upon us how each discrete work of art requires and invites a different method of engagement and exploration.
I wonder what are other ways of enjoying an art piece?
The work by Wong is a metal form mounted on the wall, compositionally suggestive of an abstract painting. The form consists of two layers of fabricated metal, each a distinct geometric pattern.
Often by looking at an art piece it is hard to imagine how complex the making of that art piece could've been. By using touch sense you can get a better understanding of the texture and the material that was used to build the art piece. It helps us explore deeper into the small details that go into making that specific art piece. Making us appreciate the hard work of artists more.
We approached the artwork as if it was a set of step-by-step instructions, beginning with the unfolded bills and then carefully following the procedure, folding, unfolding, comparing our version with the original as we made and corrected errors.
It's really interesting to see how with sense of touch people can come up ideas about how an art piece is created.
As mentioned above, even the best museum touch tour has to keep to a schedule and there is seldom an opportunity to backtrack and re-handle a previous item.
One solution to this problem could be having a touch section for a art piece so anyone can touch it. It can be limited to one art in a section where people can either book online or wait in line to touch and feel.
But by the end of the exhibition, the paintings were barely different to their opening state. A few people later confessed that they had refrained from touching so as to avoid damaging the work, preferring to use Instagram to capture a visual memory.
I do feel like it is possible to generate the same texture of an art piece while keeping one as a backup copy. That way even if a painting gets damaged it would happen to the back up copy. But I find it hard to believe art pieces can be damaged like that when most people would touch it gently.
Whether they are good or bad, standard museum touch tours systematically fail to capture and collate the responses of the privileged few who enjoy this exceptional access.
Touch tours should allow visitors to experience exhibits in a more personal way, leading to a greater connection or understanding with the material and an increase in knowledge retention.
My mother was a painter. I often helped her stretch and prime her canvases and was familiar with her preferred practices for mixing and applying pigments.
I never before thought of feeling the texture as a form of art. This is very fascinating now that I think about it.
visitor behaviour were introduced forbidding touch.
I do feel like it is weird that they don't let visitors touch art work most of the time in the museum. I guess it is another symptom of our modern society. Where only a limited few groups of people in power can touch them ( people who paid for private exhibition). On the other hand I do feel like the idea of people breaking or messing up the art piece by touching it is a valid reasoning.
Without providing “realistic” positive representations that emerge only as a response to the totalizing nature ofexisting narratives, they offer points of radical departure.
i agree, I feel like in most movies they use a lot of stereotype as way of making a joke or as "Comedy" which is still wrong to do.
How they see themselves is most important, not how they will bestared at by others.
This kind of mindset is very hard to have when they are being oppressed.
Critical black female spectatorship emerges as a site of resistanceonly when individual black women actively resist the imposition ofdominant ways of knowing and looking.
Film criticism is often made fun of on the social media. If you speak up about it they say things like it meant as a form of "joke" or "comedy". They say things like people not having a sense of humor.
she connected it tocoming to critical consciousness, saying, “I learned that there wasmore to looking than I had been exposed to in ordinary (Hollywood)movies.”
Often as viewers we overlook a lot of racism and sexism in movies due to it being showed as a form of comedy. Not many people critically analyze movies when they are watching it for fun.
It is difficult to talk when you feel no one is listening, when youfeel as though a special jargon or narrative has been created that onlythe chosen can understand.
During most protest I been part of it does feel like that where people don't care enough to listen. They just go by as their days.
Despitefeminist critical interventions aimed at deconstructing the category“woman” which highlight the significance of race, many feminist filmcritics continue to structure their discourse as though it speaks about“women”when in actuality it speaks only about white women.
Again the hierarchy of power where systematically white people are represented the most making other races to not stand
To experience pleasure, Miss Pauline sitting in the dark must imagineherself transformed, turned into the white woman portrayed on thescreen. After watching movies, feeling the pleasure, she says, “But itmade coming home hard.”
I feel like this is another example of hierarchy of power where she has to believe she is someone else to relate.
And in oppositionthey claimed Sapphire as their own, as the symbol of that angry partof themselves white folks and black men could not even begin tounderstand.
Another example of oppressors manipulation
She was there as man in drag, as castrating bitch, as someone tobe lied to, someone to be tricked, someone the white and blackaudience could hate.
It's crazy how oppressors can do such a thing and manipulate people into believing that it is for " Entertainment" where it is a display of hate towards the other race.
to have white women film stars beultra-white was a cinematic practice that sought to maintain a distance,a separation between that image and the black female Other; it was away to perpetuate white supremacy.
Similarly, a South Asian company named " Fair & Lovely " was under a lot of criticism a few years ago. They were selling their skin whitening cream for over 10 years and nobody ever raised a voice about the racism that used to take place in their ads. In their ads they used to call dark skin people "ugly" and tell people to buy their cream to become "glow" or white. This company used to make me boil my blood. They changed their name recently to “glow and lovely” and still it saddens me to see that the company still exists after all of that.
Even when representations of black women were present in film,our bodies and being were there to serve—to enhance and maintainwhite womanhood as object of the phallocentric gaze.
Few days ago I was watching " The Matrix" again where the main female character named Trinity's fate was to fall in love with neo. The movie made it seem like she was only there to serve neo.
Then, one’s enjoymentof a film wherein representations of blackness were stereotypicallydegrading and dehumanizing co-existed with a critical practice thatrestored presence where it was negated.
I feel like even in today's day it hasn't changed. In movies often black people are repressed as gang members. The racism in the film industry is still ongoing. African Americans and other ethnic minorities are portrayed as dangerous, impoverished and criminal in a variety genre of films. I find it interesting that minorities are often over represented as criminals in this world in the movies. I feel like movies are to some extent are like propaganda.
When most black people in the United States first had the opportunity to look at film and television, they did so fully aware that massmedia was a system of knowledge and power reproducing and maintaining white supremacy.
Similarly in most first person shooter video games made by the west features places in the middle east. Poplar games like cs-go and valorant. Drawing the picture that the middle east is full of violence. Which is not true.
Since I knew as a child that the dominating power adults
In my culture it is often looked as a sign of disrespect when a child is looking at an adult directly in the eye. We are thought to lower our gaze and look down while talking to grown ups to show a sign of respect
Once upon a time (a time when high art was scarce), it must havebeen a revolutionary and creative move to interpret works of art. Now itis not.
I wonder how much of that is to do with people realizing there is a hierarchy of power. And finally being able to resists it. Where back in the days people were to believe what they are told by kings or people in power. Questioning the system would've led to punishments.
The fact that films have not been overrun by interpreters is in partdue simply to the newness of cinema as an art
I do feel like movies have been overran by interpreters especially movies that plays in the museum screens.
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees usfrom the itch to interpret.
Isn't that a bad thing? I find some movies fascinating because it makes me think of the ending. It makes me question if I understood the movie correctly. In my head different scenes of the movie starts playing and I imagine all the different ways the movie could've ended. I feel like the power to imagine your own ending to a movie is great. It makes us think and explore different ideas.
This is why cinema is the most alive, the most exciting, the mostimportant of all art forms right now. Perhaps the way one tells how alivea particular art form is, is by the latitude it gives for making mistakes in it
I do enjoy watching films more than watching an art piece or reading a poem.
I am speaking mainly of the situation in America, of course.Interpretation runs rampant here in those arts with a feeble and negligibleavant-garde: fiction and the drama.
In countries like Bangladesh, it is very hard to find any Art piece without interpretation. In the country it is still believed to be one of the great work to have the knowledge of interpreting art pieces.
It doesn’t matter whether artists intend, or don’t intend, for their works tobe interpreted.
I do feel like this is a biased opinion. I feel like it is the artist rights to have his work interpretative or not
For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be theirtask to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story intosomething else
Again I feel like this is a form of power dominance
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
That is true often interpretation of art pushes other people's perspective on other and make them believe. It is a form of manipulation and power.
None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when artknew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art whatit said because one knew (or thought one knew) what it did.
I wonder what happens when someone understands the Art's meaning wrongly and use it to influence others. The freedom to think in Art is a double edge sword because it can often cause misunderstanding between people. Wars may breakout if a painting of a powerful person is understood wrongly then the artist intended to. But again Art is not supposed to be something that you understand completely, but something that one can enjoy and experience. It's not extreme but balance in perfection. It doesn't force you to think of something or decide anything, it just tells you to enjoy the moment!
Lie or no, art has a certain value accordingto Aristotle because it is a form of therapy.
I myself often like to draw when I am feeling stressed. But I do feel like art has much more value than a form of therapy. It can a precious representation of history, etc.
Plato, who proposed the theory, seems to have done so in order torule that the value of art is dubious. Since he considered ordinary materialthings as themselves mimetic objects, imitations of transcendent forms orstructures, even the best painting of a bed would be only an “imitation ofan imitation.”
It is fascinating how people over time have brought into these ideals
It is only shallow people who do not judgeby appearances. The mystery of the world isthe visible, not the invisible
I like this quote because it's deep. We live in a world that is changing everyday and because of this, it's difficult to keep up with everything. The internet, video games, social media all have changed the way we interact with each other and the world. We judge people by their appearance. Unconsciously we all do it. The internet has made this even easier because people can hide their real life identities and begin a new one online for the world to see. It gives people a sense of pseudo reality that is not in reality. We all become judges by having the power of clicking the like button or not.
educa-tion, medical treatment, production, punishmen
In today's day it is sometimes hard to notice hierarchy. Due to the people in power manipulating the citizens into believing what they want them to believe. So that they can keep controlling them.
schoolchildren
Still to this day I feel like there is a huge hierarchy problem in the school system which in my opinion makes the school system corrupt. Teachers can't things they want to teach but have to follow guidelines set by far away rulers most of whom probably never been teacher.
At the centre was an octag-onal pavilion which, on the first floor, consisted of only a singleroom, the king’s salon; on every side large windows looked outonto seven cages (the eighth side was reserved for the en-trance), containing different species of animals.
Brings up the question on the motives behind these innovations. What drives innovation? Is it the fondness of wanting to have power?
The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating thesee/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen,without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everythingwithout ever being seen.
This is similar to the idea of how the government or the internet provider can see how and when everything that you do. Without you being aware of the data they are collecting on you.
Panopticon
A place where prisoners could be observed 24/7 with them knowing when or who is observing them. This creates a fear in the prisoners to not cause any trouble because they never know who is watching. I wonder how the idea of Panopticon is used in today's social media industries?
hierarchy
I believe during any pandemic the power balance shifts a lot. Since most of the people would be at quarantine they can't do anything to make their voices heard. No protest nothing. This often gives the politicians power to control the citizens more then ever.
they have ap-pointed a physician in charge; no other practitioner may treat,no apothecary prepare medicine, no confessor visit a sick per-son without having received from him a written note ‘to pre-vent anyone from concealing and dealing with those sick of thecontagion, unknown to the magistrates’.
I wonder why they were not allowing another medical professional to treat those infected? There must have been another reason, besides not wanting to put the physicians in harms way.
‘In this way he will find out easily enough whether deador sick are being concealed
Was there any punishment for not showing up to the name call?
If it is ab-solutely necessary to leave the house, it will be done in turn,avoiding any meeting.
This relates to the covid-19 response from the government by a lot.
he takes the key with him and hands it over to the inten-dant of the quarter; the intendant keeps it until the end of thequarantine
I feel like this is cruel. What if there is a fire next door and they have to help. Or in any emergency cases. They won't be able to leave the house.
Eachstreet is placed under the authority of a syndic, who keeps itunder surveillance
Did the government also do something similar like this using technology in response to covid-19?
a strict spatial partitioning: the closing of the town andits outlying districts, a prohibition to leave the town on pain ofdeath, the killing of all stray animals; the division of the towninto distinct quarters, each governed by an intendant.
Seeing how pandemics were treated in the past history is really interesting. The amount of control the government had over people in this case. During this time there were a lot of supervision where during covid-19 I felt like there wasn't as much supervision. Which makes me wonder which would be the best to prevent an outbreak? More supervision from the government or less?
Conventional and older durational units persist (l ike"nine to five" or " Monday to Friday") , but overlaid onto thema re all the practices of i ndividual ti me management madepossible by 24n networks and markets.
This is a very interesting point of being tied to the idea of 24/7 work even if we are not working 24/7 in a day
Both the drones and nightraids have aroused extraordinary anger among the Mghanpopulation
I have heard about this a little bit when this topic was in the main stream media after wikileaks leaked a confidencial video about one of their mission in Afghanistan
even harmonization, betweenhu man time and the temporalities of networked systems, thelived realities of this relationship are disjunctions, fractures,and continual disequilibrium.
This part is confusing to me
shopping, gaming, working, blogging,downloading, or texting 24n
Fascinating to see all of these are related to dopamine release in our brain. For some people working long hours makes them happy and releases dopamine in the brain.
"mot d'ordre"
A french word meaning slogan or plan.
hallucination of presence
It is true, time sometimes doesn't feel real. I feel connected to this a lot recently.