Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario Goose Lane Editions, 2023
ISBN 978-1-773102-02-3
"Moving the Museum documents the reopening of the J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with a renewed focus on the AGO’s Indigenous art collection. The volume reflects the nation-to-nation treaty relationship that is the foundation of Canada, asking questions, discovering truths, and leading conversations that address the weight of history and colonialism.
"Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 reproductions, Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO features the work of First Nations artists — including Carl Beam, Rebecca Belmore, and Kent Monkman — along with work by Inuit artists like Shuvinai Ashoona and Annie Pootoogook. Canadian artists include Lawren Harris, Kazuo Nakamura, Joyce Wieland, and many others. Drawing from stories about our origins and identities, the featured artists and essayists invite readers to engage with issues of land, water, transformation, and sovereignty and to contemplate the historic and future representation of Indigenous and Canadian art in museums." (Taken from the Goose Lane Editions website.)
Contents: A Dish with One Spoon, by Duke Redbird; Director's Foreword, by Stephan Jost; Curatorial Acknowledgements, by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik; Nation2Nation: Collaboration + Curation, by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik; Anishabe Walker Court, by Wanda Nanibush; In Focus: Robert Houle, Seven Grandfathers, by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik; Early Canadian Moderns+ Nato'sa'pi, by Georgiana Uhlyarik; Two Brother: Abraham Anghik Ruben and David Ruben Piqtoukun, by Wanda Nanibush; Inuit Prints, Drawings, and Photography, by Wanda Nanibush; Imaup Arnangata Uqallaaninga / Sea Woman, by Taqralik Partridge; Canadian Women Artists in Focus, by Georgiana Uhlyarik; Dibaajimoowin nji-sa gii-gchi-mooshkang / The Story of the Great Flood, by Nyle Miigizi Johnston; Maachtaawinan / Origins, by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik; Yaawitt Wiya / The Self, by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik; Ki / Land, by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik; Nbiish / Water, by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik; Dbaajimowin / Storytelling, by Wanda Nanibush; Aanzinaagotoowin / Transformation, by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik; In Focus: Lisa Reihana, in Pursuit of Venus [infected], by Julie Nagam; Anishinaabeg Aankaach Anishinaabeg / Indigenous2Indigenous, by Wanda Nanibush; June Clark, by Wanda Nanibush; Winsom: I Rise, written by Andrea Fatona; Sandra Brewster: Blur, by Wanda Nanibush; Michael Belmore, by Wanda Nanibush; Inuit Sculpture in Focus: Karoo Ashevak, by Wanda Nanibush; Indigenous Art and the Museum: A Mini History, by Wanda Nanibush; Dear Canadian Art, I was thinking about you..., by Georgiana Uhlyarik; Meanwghile, Anytime: A Short Reflection on the History of Black Artists at the AGO, by Michelle Jacques; Where Social and Art Histories Meet Performance, by Bojana Stancic; Album; List of Events; List of Works Illustrated.
ITEM 2023.004 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Seven Grandfathers – Robert Houle
Twelve Angry Crinolines – Rebecca Belmore
In Pursuit of Venus [Infected] – Lisa Reihana
Seven Sisters – Mike MacDonald
The Shirt – Shelley Niro
Blur – Sandra Brewster
Artifact #671B – Rebecca Belmore
Untitled (Two Figures in a Landscape) – Kathleen Munn
Ask Danger – Dayna Danger
Serpentine – Daina Ashbee
My Grandma Stretched Hides – Sage Paul
Don't Breathe, Don't Drink – Ruth Cuthand
Norval Morriseau
Kent Monkman