The Destabilized Landscape: Post-Colonial Space and Unreal Estate
Edmonton: Edmonton Art Gallery, 1996
ISBN 0-88950-107-6
Catalogue for the exhibition The Destabilized Landscape, the tenth in a series of exhibitions and special events inaugurated in the summer of 1993, with a billboard exhibition in a downtown Saskatoon parking lot, and concluded in 1998. This exhibition was on view at The Edmonton Art Gallery (January 13 to February 25, 1996) and Mendel Art Gallery (March 1 to April 28, 1996) as a joint regional project co-produced by the two institutions. Curated by Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, this exhibition introduced "the problematic of post-colonial space and landscape; with textual references ranging from Bhabha to Nabokov, the authors discuss the work of more than twenty international artists" (quote taken from the Artexte website).
The catalogue also contains the titles and description of each work included in the exhibition, as well as video stills. The works are organized in the catalogue by the following themes: North American Aboriginal Artists; Artists Who Address Orientalism, ‘Arabness’ and Contemporary Islam; Mexican Video Artists; Artists from the Former Yugoslavia; Artists Who Use Irony and Other Distancing Techniques to Illuminate ‘Landscape’ and ‘Locale’ in Relation to Histories. The artists included in this exhibition are "united by their interests in a history of colonization and the cultural identity that colonization has engendered [...] in the prairie region in particular [where] there are fundamental and highly visible differences between the use of land throughout its early history by Native people, its recent use by European settlers, and its current use within our post-colonial society" (quote taken from the catalogue).
ITEM 1996.099 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Cat Cayuga
Arnait Ikajurtigiit
Julian Samuel
Akram Zaatari
Sarah Minter
Elias Jimenez
Dalibor Martinis
Breda Beban
Hrvoje Horvatic
Gary Kibbins
Woody Vasulka
Stuart Marshall
Robert Morin
Vera Frenkel
Nora Naranjo-Morse