Nations By Artists Episode 3: Archive/Counter-Archive

Artists featured in this episode: 

•     Huong Ngo 
•     Jasmina Cibic 
•     Sadie Barnette 

Further Reading

• Hương Ngô, “We are still here / Chúng ta vẫn ở đây / Narito pa rin kami,” for When the Storm Comes, a collaboration between feminist publishers Gantala Press and Bar de Force Press. https://whenthestormcomes314975986.wordpress.com/chung-toi-van-o-day-we-are-still-here-narito-pa-rin-kami/
• Chester Alamo-Costello, “Hương Ngô – Reflecting Winds of Perception & Change,” Comp Magazine, 15 October 2018, https://www.thecompmagazine.com/huong-ngo/
• Jaka Gerčar, “The Gift, And Especially The Obligation To Return It: Jasmina Cibic’ Foundation Of Endeavour (Exhibition review), Membrana 5, no. 2 (2020), https://www.membrana.org/review/the-gift-and-especially-the-obligation-to-return-it-jasmina-cibic-foundation-of-endeavour/
• Anna Furman, “A Daughter’s Reclamation of Her Father’s Past,” New York Times T Magazine, 31 Dec 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/t-magazine/sadie-barnette-fbi-drawings.html
• Sampada Aranke, “Material Matters: Black Radical Aesthetics and the Limits of Visibility,” e-flux journal 79 (february 2017). https://www.e-flux.com/journal/79/94433/material-matters-black-radical-aesthetics-and-the-limits-of-visibility/

The Nations by Artists podcast is produced by Aliya Pabani and is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Graphic design by Demian DinéYazhi’

Music for episode 3 by Zoon (Daniel Monkman, represented by Double Denim Management)

Artists featured in this episode: 

• Greg Hil
• Alan Michelson
• Pablo Helguera
• Native Art Department International (NADI)
• G. Peter Jemison

Further Reading

• “Alan Michelson & Jolene Rickard on Native Sovereignty,” Dec 7, 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSrFZX1TQk4
• Joseph Heath, “The Citizenship Act of 1924” (report), OnondagaNation.org, June 7, 2018, https://www.onondaganation.org/news/2018/the-citizenship-act-of-1924/
• Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014).
• Pablo Helguero and Sarah Demeuse (editors), School of Panamerican Unrest Anthology (United States: Jorge Pinto Books, 2011).
• Rebecca McGrew et al, It Happened at Pomona : Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 (Claremont, CA: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2011).
• Ming Tiampo, “Gutai: Splendid Playground,” Guggenheim exhibition website, http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/gutai/'

Music: Cris Derksen: North, 21, Sorry, Dark Dance (℗©2013 Cris Derksen, represented by Latitude 45 Arts)

The Art Museum gratefully acknowledges operating support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council, with additional project support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Produced by Aliya Pabani.

Artists featured in this episode: 

• Amy Lam, formerly of Life of a Craphead
• Will Kwan
• Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan
• Miran Mohar and Borut Vogelnik of IRWIN

Further reading:

• Vashist, Indu, "Eddie and Me," Canadian Art, 7 December 2017.
• Will Kwan, "Will Kwan – Flame Test," 2010, in Radio Papesse, podcast, MP3 audio, https://radiopapesse.org/en/archive/interviews/will-kwan-flame-test.
• Dempsey, Shawna., and Lorri. Millan. Lesbian National Parks and Services Field Guide to North America : Flora, Fauna & Survival Skills. Toronto, Ontario: Pedlar Press, 2002.
• Taussig, Michael T. Defacement : Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1999.
• Krečič Jela, ed. The Final Countdown: Europe, Refugees, and the Left. Ljubljana: IRWIN, 2017. 

Music: Ciel – Rain Dance (Peach Discs), Trojan Horse, Hope Breaks (Thanks for Enlightening Me), Rosebud (Mister Saturday Night), and Laibach – The Great Seal

The Art Museum gratefully acknowledges operating support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council, with additional project support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Produced by Aliya Pabani.