The Edward Curtis Project Exhibition
The Edward Curtis Project is a multi-disciplinary work by Métis/Dene playwright Marie Clements and photojournalist Rita Leistner that blends theatre performance with photographic installation, exploring how historical photography and documentation continue to influence contemporary Aboriginal communities. The creators travelled across North America to conduct research, lead community workshops, record interviews and take still photography as a means of building a dialogue between peoples, communities, perspectives, artistic forms and disciplines (…)
The exhibition runs at Presentation House Theatre through March 23.
This looks like it should be exceptionally interesting – the CBC interview this morning was very informative about the re:photography part of this piece. I wish or hope that that more of this will end up on the web for those of us not in Vancouver — Curtis has been ripely dissected by many people for years but an aboriginally-initiated re-photography project breaks new ground. Good stuff.
I will have to look the CBC interview up! Thanks for the hint.
The show actually runs until May 23rd not March 23rd
Thanks for the heads-up!