Gender and Women Studies / en REDress art installation comes to 茄子直播 /news/redress-art-installation-comes-u-t <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">REDress art installation comes to 茄子直播</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-03-17-redress.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=CnzwtPRR 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2017-03-17-redress.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=pZ-CcTSC 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2017-03-17-redress.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=dKPu0qjS 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-03-17-redress.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=CnzwtPRR" alt> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>hjames</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2017-03-16T17:00:53-04:00" title="Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 17:00" class="datetime">Thu, 03/16/2017 - 17:00</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Philosopher's Walk at 茄子直播's downtown Toronto location is one of the places where Jaime Black's REDress installation can be experienced (photo courtesy of Hannah James)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/hannah-james" hreflang="en">Hannah James</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Hannah James</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/indigenous" hreflang="en">Indigenous</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/gender-and-women-studies" hreflang="en">Gender and Women Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/art" hreflang="en">Art</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Bright red&nbsp;dresses blowing in the wind 鈥 symbolizing the 12,000 missing and murdered Indigenous women across the continent&nbsp;鈥 will confront&nbsp;people walking through 茄子直播's downtown Toronto campus over the next few days.&nbsp;</p> <p>Artist <strong>Jaime Black</strong>'s powerful installation, which goes up Friday,&nbsp;is meant to trigger and provoke reflection and dialogue about the issue of violent crimes against Indigenous women. This is the first time that Black's&nbsp;REDress Project,&nbsp;which was first unveiled in Winnipeg in 2010, is seen in Toronto. It will be her largest installation to date. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="http://www.citynews.ca/2017/03/20/redress-project-brings-attention-to-violent-crimes-against-indigenous-women/">See the CityNews story</a></h3> <h3><a href="http://www.blogto.com/arts/2017/03/red-dresses-mysteriously-appear-toronto/">Read the BlogTO story</a></h3> <p>茄子直播's Women and Gender Studies Institute collected more than 100 crimson dresses for the exhibit. Black, a 茄子直播 alumna who is coming to the university as part of an artist residency, said she chose&nbsp;Philosopher鈥檚 Walk as the main location for the installation, because of the&nbsp;creek that once ran below the walkway.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3861 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/Jaime%20Black%20philosophers.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 563px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> <em>Artist Jaime Black along Philosopher's Walk today. The 茄子直播 alumna is here for the next few days for an artist residency (photo by Hannah James)</em></p> <p>The creek, says Black, also used to be a gathering and fishing space for Indigenous people.</p> <p>鈥淭he flow and reality of Indigenous culture is literally paved over. I think that鈥檚 a metaphor,鈥 says Black. 鈥淚鈥檓 interested in activating that site by bringing back traces of that story."</p> <p>Since 2010, Black has been collecting donated red dresses and installing them in public spaces as an 鈥渁esthetic response鈥 to the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women across Turtle Island.</p> <p>She says the dresses are meant to evoke reflection on the 12,000 plus women that have gone missing or have been killed on Turtle Island, the Indigenous name for North America. In Canada alone, the RCMP has estimated that 1,200 Indigenous women are missing or&nbsp;murdered.</p> <p><strong>Melissa Nesrallah</strong>, a PhD candidate&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Women and Gender Studies Institute&nbsp;organized&nbsp;the <a href="http://www.wgsi.utoronto.ca/news/land-jaime-black-artist-residency-march-16th-march-22nd-2017">Jaime Black Artist Residency&nbsp;</a>with the institute's&nbsp;<strong>Karyn Recollet</strong>. The residency will include film screenings, lectures,&nbsp;performances, and it will culminate with a final performance at Philosopher's Walk on Wednesday.</p> <p><img alt class="media-image attr__typeof__foaf:Image img__fid__3864 img__view_mode__media_original attr__format__media_original" src="/sites/default/files/sir%20daniel%20plane%20tree-1.jpg" style="width: 750px; height: 563px;" typeof="foaf:Image"><br> <em>The red dresses also hang by Whitney Hall (photo by Hannah James)</em></p> <p>Nesrallah came up with the idea of the residency last year when she was writing about Black鈥檚 work for her master's thesis. She put out an open call for red dress donations, and received a great response.</p> <p>The dresses have gone up in locations around 茄子直播, including Hart House Circle, Philosopher鈥檚 Walk&nbsp;and areas around Robarts Library.</p> <p>In addition, Black will be exhibiting a 2016 mixed-media installation called 鈥淐onversations with the Land鈥 at First Nations House.</p> <p>The REDress project and Conversations with the Land are meant to speak to each other, says Nesrallah, although this will be the first time they have been exhibited together. The former is about creating awareness of the missing and murdered women but also to remind people that Indigenous women and girls are still here, are still living, working and healing on the land, she says.</p> <p>Black, who attended Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, says she鈥檚 excited to return to 茄子直播 for her residency and looks forward to the possibility of new collaborations with students and other artists. She鈥檒l be participating in the various lectures, discussions and workshops.</p> <p>鈥淢y biggest excitement is about activating the work,鈥 says Black, who sees this&nbsp;as an opportunity to explore new solidarities within 茄子直播鈥檚 community.</p> <p>Her residency also includes screenings and talks by Maika Harper, cast member from TV series <em>Mohawk Girls,</em>&nbsp;and filmmaker Lisa Jackson talking about her CBC documentary&nbsp;<em>Highway of Tears</em>.</p> <p>Several significant Indigenous artists like Kent Monkman and Christi Belcourt have donated artwork for a silent auction benefitting Onaman Collective 鈥 an Indigenous land-based art initiative sharing traditional knowledge and language with youth.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:00:53 +0000 hjames 105785 at