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$5 Handshake

Art on Treaty 8 Territory

contributions by Hugh Brody, Brenda Draney, Kate Hennessy, Candice Hopkins & Brian Jungen

edited by Melanie O'Brian

by (artist) Jack Askoty, Brittney Bear Hat, Richelle Bear Hat, Jennifer Bowes, Emilie Mattson, Karl Mattson, Garry Oker & Peter von Tiehenhausen

Publisher
SFU Galleries
Initial publish date
May 2018
Category
Native American, Group Shows
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780986858178
    Publish Date
    May 2018
    List Price
    $15.00

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Description

This is the fourth publication in the SFU Galleries Critical Reader Series. A corollary to the group exhibition Maps and Dreams (Audain Gallery, June 1 - July 29, 2017), this publication takes up concepts and implications of land use through cultural and industrial lenses, specifically in relationship to the territory of the Dane-zaa people of northeastern British Columbia, now in Treaty 8. New texts by artist Brenda Draney, researcher Kate Hennessy, curator Candice Hopkins, and the exhibition curators, Brian Jungen and Melanie O'Brian, as well as a reprinted chapter from Hugh Brody's 1981 anthropological study Maps and Dreams connect the personal to regional and global contexts.

About the authors

Hugh Brody is a writer and filmmaker. He is the author of Indians on Skid Row, Inishkillane: Change and Decline in the West of Ireland, The People's Land, Living Arctic and, with Michael Ignatieff, of 1919.

Hugh Brody's profile page

Brenda Draney's profile page

Kate Hennessy's profile page

Candice Hopkins is a curator and writer who has held curatorial positions at the National Gallery of Canada, the Western Front, and the Walter Phillips Gallery. She is currently the chief curator at the AIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hopkins holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Her writings on history, art, and vernacular architecture have been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, Revolver Press, New York University, The Fillip Review and, the National Museum of the American Indian, among others. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Candice Hopkins' profile page

Brian Jungen's profile page

Melanie O'Brian is currently Director of Simon Fraser University Galleries in Vancouver and Burnaby. She was formerly Curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, Director/Curator at Artspeak in Vancouver, and Assistant Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She has organized exhibitions locally and internationally, edited numerous publications, and written for numerous journals, catalogues, and magazines.

Melanie O'Brian's profile page

Jack Askoty's profile page

Brittney Bear Hat's profile page

Richelle Bear Hat's profile page

Jennifer Bowes' profile page

Emilie Mattson's profile page

Karl Mattson's profile page

Garry Oker's profile page

Peter von Tiehenhausen's profile page

Editorial Reviews

"At the heart of this book is the thread that connects the different writers, contributors and voices together – the way in which friendships, families and artists have impacted their relationship to this place, its dualities and contradictions. Like Askoty’s photographs, the contributions to the book de-territorialize constructed notions of Northern BC by showing a dual relationship to land and territory, the ancestral and the contemporary, a place where hunting remains fundamental to life yet deeply fraught within debates over the current legal status of ancestral ways of living. $5 Handshake is purposefully cautious in offering a consistent representation or interpretation of Treaty 8 territory. In many ways, the Critical Reader successfully addresses the tensions in our contemporary landscape by pushing us to favor the multivalent over the authoritative. The book is a gesture towards Indigenous sovereignty, by allowing those voices from within to speak and write about it personally" (Matthews, 2020).

Matthews, B. (2020, August 7). Review of $5 Handshake: Art on Treaty 8 Territory – Making Culture Lab. http://hennessy.iat.sfu.ca/mcl/review-of-5-handshake-art-on-treaty-8-territory/