Video

Seven Sisters

Mike MacDonald

1989, 55:00 minutes, English

TAPECODE 028.02

Seven Sisters is a seven screen, seven tape, video installation. Designed to play on seven television sets all different sizes, the work sculpturally represents the mountains it shows. The work takes us on a helicopter trip from Terrace in Northwestern British Columbia up the Skeena River to the Seven Sisters Mountains. We fly over mile after mile of clear-cut logging and consequent devastation, then through a bit of bush to follow a herd of mountain goats. The work shows us the blossoms of numerous traditional food and medicine plants
that grow in the mountains, then we see the clear-cuts again followed by images of the wildlife of the area stuffed in a museum. 7 channel installation A-G

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Critical Writing

Video art moves with simplicity
by Regina Hackett. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Oct. 28, 1994.
Pe'l A'tukwey: Let me...tell a story
by Robin Metcalfe. Arts Atlantic, Winter 1994, v. 12, no. iss. 48 no.4.
Whose Nation?
by Scott Watson. Canadian Art, Spring 1993, v. 10, no. 1.
Beyond History is disturbing and powerful show by Indian artists
by Regina Hackett. Seattle Post Intelligencer, May 31, 1989.