Looking at the Past
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 13 “This Work Is Not for You”: Two-Spirit Kinship
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Looks at Dayna Danger’s photography series Big’Uns with the scholarship and activism of Jas M. Morgan, and their 2017 “Kinship” issue of Canad...
Episode 12 - Inuit Filmmaking and Food Sovereignty
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Examines the concept of northern food sovereignty in relation to Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s 2016 film “Angry Inuk.”
Episode 11 - Orientalism, Art, Imperialism
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Covers the work of Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, his concept of Orientalism, and European art and literature’s invention of “the Orien...
Episode 10 - Photography, Film, and the “Tourist Gaze”
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Working with John Urry’s concept of the “tourist gaze” (1990) to understand the documentary work of Dennis O’Rourke and his 1988 film “Canni...
Episode 9 - Asian Canadian Art Matters
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Explores the work of art historian Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim and her Ethnocultural Art Histories research group at Concordia University, pertaining to hi...
Episode 8 - Colonial Canadian Art History and the “Order of Terror”
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Surveying the colonial foundations of Canadian Art History using the work of Welastekwewiyik historian Andrea Bear Nicholas and her award-winning arti...
Episode 7 - On Disability and “Cripping” the Arts
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Draws on Christinina Myers’s recent article in Canadian Art magazine, on a symposium entitled “Cripping the Arts” (Toronto 2019) in relation to ...
Episode 6 - Claiming “Bad Kin”
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week we work with Dr. Alexis Shotwell’s concept of white settlers claiming “bad kin” under settler colonialism, in relation to Dr. Sheelah ...
Episode 5 - Black Fungibility and “Seeing” Enslavement
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Uses work by Black scholars Saidiya Hartman, Tiffany Lethabo King, and Robyn Maynard to examine the visual culture of enslavement.
Episode 4 - “How to Steal a Canoe” and Anti-Indigenous Cultural Violence
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Discusses Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s 2016 animated short, directed by Amanda Strong, in the context of the Canadian government’s 1884 potlatch ...
Episode 3 - “Double Consciousness” and Visual Culture
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Explores histories of racialization, seeing, and visibility through the work of W.E.B. Du Bois and Franz Fanon.
Episode 2 - Colonization, Invasion as Structure, and “Men of their Time”
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s “The Couple in a Cage,” histories of Columbus, and settler colonialism as a structure, not an event (Patri...
Episode 1 - Decolonization, Visual Culture, and Treaty
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode: Tuck and Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” critical disability and visual culture, and the Peace and Friendship Treaties ...