Browsing by Author "Garneau, David"

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10,000 Drowned: Commemorating the Caribou
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2020-01) Orr, Margaret Grace; Garneau, David; Streifler, Leesa; Chambers, Ruth
This exhibition commemorates a caribou herd that drown during their fall migration in 1984. The disaster occurred when Hydro-Quebec opened the Caniapiscau reservoir spill gates two hundred and seventy miles upstream from Limestone Falls on the Caniapiscau River. This caused the river level to rise and send a torrent of water towards the Ungava Bay. At their traditional river crossing, thousands of caribou were swept over the falls and drowned. This paper supports my MFA graduating exhibition, 10,000 Drowned, installed in The Fifth Parallel Gallery from November 25 to December 6, 2019. 10,000 Drowned is an installation of six large oil paintings representing the land, sky, water, fire, four directions, and the migration of caribou. There are also four large ceramic vessels representing air, water, land, and fire, and one hundred ceramic antlers representing the lost caribou. In addition, a video installation shows the caribou’s point of view as they travel over the land and then drown. The exhibition is my delayed response to my anguish over this disaster. I grew up on the land situated around the Chisasibi River in Northern Quebec. Through my Cree and Inuit relatives, I absorbed a lot of knowledge about how to live with the land and animals; how to survive using only basic of tools. These teachings come from how we relate with the natural environment and with one another. This paper describes my life and community. This background is essential to understanding the meaning of the caribou and this event in our lives. Through stories and by reflecting on my research process, I hope to offer insight into how contemporary forms of Indigenous art-making continue from traditional Cree knowledge practices. I returned to the site of the drownings many times. I mapped the caribou migration territory from a bird’s-eye view. I talked to elders and others about this event. But it was only when I took this experiential research method to a deeper embodied level that I got close to the meaning of this event. Only by submerging myself in icy water, feeling what drowning was like, was I able to complete my connection with these beings.
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A serving of empathy
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2024-07) Watt, Brenda Faye; Garneau, David; Chambers, Ruth; Fay, Holly
A Serving of Empathy, my MFA graduating exhibition at the Fifth Parallel Gallery at the University of Regina (June 10–21, 2024), consists of two bodies of work. Potent Moments (2024) is a collection of sixteen ceramic plates exploring the lives of young people at moments of crisis, transition, and suspense. Fragments of Memory (2022) is a suite of ten conjoined ceramic plates that depict my mother’s train journey from Regina to Victoria in 1950 when she was fifteen. The plates are displayed on the gallery walls at eye-level. In addition, “Carousel of Innocence,” an interactive work set on a low plinth in the centre of the gallery, provides a moment of pleasure amid the tension of the surrounding pieces. Potent Moments are visual narratives painted on modified ceramic plates. Thin slabs are added to the surface while the wheel-thrown clay is soft. They are torn to produce shallow ragged openings for the painted scenes. The scenes are mostly private moments that my omniscient visual narrator invades to reveal hidden truths and to generate empathy. These paintings realize the mental images I had when I heard stories, and the mental images I created over the years when reviving the original stories. Fragments of Memory is a suite of five ceramic artworks that reconstruct my memory of my mother’s remembered experience. This artwork is about the relationship between narrative content, memory, imagination, and perceptual position; about how we try to inhabit and understand the experiences of others through imaginative means. Using conjoined ceramic forms, painted images, and ceramic shards, I create artworks that not only reconstruct what can be remembered but also describe the process of remembering. Keywords: ceramics, clay, plates, stories, heterotopias, omniscient viewer, omniscient narrator
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Acimowin Anaskanak - Story Scrolls: A Methodology of First Nations Art Practices as a Healing Tool
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2017-08) Benjoe, David Lyle; Pete, Shauneen; Garneau, David; Robertson, Carmen; Sasakamoose, JoLee; Stonechild, Blair
This study utilizes visual art as a tool to encourage survivors of Indian Residential Schools to share their experiences as a means toward connecting with community and fostering healing. This work is informed by personal and familial experiences and is inspired by First Nations Plains peoples who understood the power of visual art and story as a medicine for trauma. Story Scrolls use historically inspired visual artwork and oral methodologies to create contemporary Indigenous art. Due to the traumatization that occurred to First Nations children in Indian residential schools, many have not shared their personal stories. Story Scrolls combine visual art creation, Indigenous art history and activity based learning as a therapeutic way for those who attended and those dealing with intergenerational trauma from the Indian Residential School system. This study presents an Indigenous-inspired methodology that focuses on contemporary First Nations people facilitating their own story sharing sessions painted on scrolls of canvas; it is called Acimowin-Anaskanak, Story Scrolls.
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Celebration Of Authorship Program 2022-2023
(University of Regina Library, 2023) Abrams, Kelly J.; Afolabi, Taiwo; Ashton, Emily; Battis, Jes; Bazzul, Jesse; Buchko, Denée M.; Coupal, Chelsea; Crivea, Jocelyn; Dupeyron, Bruno; Eaton, Emily; Fay, Holly; Farney, Jim; Farrell, Issac; French, Lindsey; Fuchs, Jesse; Garneau, David; Gerbeza, Tea; Germani, Ian; Gibb, Ryland; Grimard, Celeste; Harnish, Garett; Hoang Trung, Kien; Horowitz, Risa; Hurlbert, Margot; Jeffery, Bonnie; King, Anna-Leah; Knight, Lindsay; Knuttila, Murray; Kyabaggu, Ramona; Lavallie, Carrie; Lloyd, Kiegan; Lonie, Kelsey; Lundahl, Bev; Lylyk, Stephen; Marsh, Charity; McNeil, Barbara; Moat, Olivia; Moasun, Festus Yaw; Nestor, Jack J.; Novik, Nuelle; Owusu, Raymond Karikari; Panchuk, Kristie; Petry, Roger; Petry, Yvonne; Phipps, Heather; Ratt, Solomon; Ricketts, Kathryn; Riegel, Christian; Robinson, Katherine M.; Rocke, Cathy; Rollo, Mike; Safinuk, Corey; Saul, Gerald; Schroeter, Sara; Schultz, Christie; Wanda, Seidlikoski Yurach; Sirke, Kara; Sterzuk, Andrea; Stewart, Michelle; Szabados, Béla; Tremblay, Arjun; Whippler, Ryan; White, Judy; Wihak, Mark; Zimmer, Jonathon
Archer Library is proud to unveil the 2022-23 University of Regina Celebration of Authorship Program booklet. This downloadable publication highlights University of Regina authors/creators of books, edited proceedings, sound recordings, musical scores and film or video recordings published over the last year in any format (print or electronic). We encourage you to take a moment to view the program booklet and extend your congratulations to all of the University of Regina students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are being celebrated this year.
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I was about to be them/there
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2023-12) Rajabzadeh, Hoorieh; Horowitz, Risa; Garneau, David
This paper supports my Master of Fine Arts graduation thesis exhibition, I Was About to Be Them/There, presented at the Fifth Parallel Gallery from December 13- 21 in 2023. My MFA exhibition consists of videos of performances, an audio/video installation, and a photograph, through which I convey the experience of being subject to external forces that shape my behavior, thoughts, and emotions. This work offers a metaphoric perspective on my experiences as an Iranian woman, and resonates with the experiences of many other women in our homeland. I aim to share the confusion and paradox that arises from existing in two distinct worlds—here in Regina, tied to Iran—while my loved ones face imminent danger in Iran. I have experienced the simultaneous sensation of being distant from and yet incredibly close to the events unfolding in my country in 2022 and 2023. I Was About to Be Them/There serves as a medium for conveying this bewildering duality and the peril that threatens those dear to me.
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Magdaleena: Reconstructing and Redirecting the 'Dominant Gaze'
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-01) Mikkola, Ella Katriina; Wihak, Mark; Petty, Sheila; Garneau, David; Rollo, Michael; Ramsay, Christine; Long, Timothy
Experimental filmmaking, expanded cinema, art films and gallery installations are all terms that are used to describe cinematic work that moves away from its conventional form and towards something unexpected and engaging. Magdaleena is an MFA research project that uses the form of expanded cinema to explore the act of looking and the act of being looked at. The cinematic gaze has been defined by theorists such as Laura Mulvey and Richard Dyer as ‘male gaze’ and ‘white gaze’. Following Dyer’s and Mulvey’s definitions, I will analyze the power relationships hidden in the act of looking, which I describe as the ‘dominant gaze’. My subjective experience is an important part of the research project, as the exploration of the ‘dominant gaze’ takes inspiration from my own non-binary gender experience. I will analyze how the normative power relationship, based on gender and other signifiers, affects the experience of being the object of the gaze. Through this work I will suggest how these power relationships can be shifted, and how the gaze can be reconstructed and redirected through the cinematic medium. In order to reconstruct the gaze, conventional spectatorship must be disturbed, therefore I will approach the narrative genre experimentally. I will follow filmmaker and artist Maya Deren’s direction on ‘vertical investigation’ in film, and combine analog and digital technologies to create a multi-channel film and installation. This critical engagement paper will describe the work process and methodologies used to create Magdaleena, a work which looks towards the future of expanded cinema and its capability of changing the way people look at moving images, and each other
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Monstrosities: Genderfluidity as Art Practice
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2017-05) Ferguson, Sarah Jean; Carter, Claire; Streifler, Leesa; Garneau, David; Horowitz, Risa
This paper engages the art conducted for my MFA graduating exhibition, Monstrosities. The assumptions and inscriptions of gender which inform bodily meanings are critiqued. As a genderqueer/trans person, the issue of how to represent my genderfluidity, despite my ‘female’ sexed body and its implications, is all consuming. Art provides a means. The desire to represent myself is the central theme of the work in my exhibition. This paper is divided into nine sections. The first, Autobiography, Queerness, and My Creative Process, relates to the background that informs my art practice. I discuss definitions and the forces which inform and propelled the exhibition, and briefly touch on my creative process. The second section, Artistic Influences, touches on the artists that inspired my project and I discuss the challenges I face when applying their approaches in practice. The third section of my paper explores how theories of melancholia, the abject and the monstrous relate to my art practice and photographs. The fourth section, Monstrosities: An Overview, is a summary of my exhibition and its contents, and future plans. In the fourth section, Beginnings, I discuss the starting point of my art practice. The sixth section, On Queering the Female Body, unpacks key theories that relate to my body and my art, as well as my shifting queer identity. The seventh section, Key Gender Theorists, Inspirations, and Influences discusses key gender theories that I drew from during the creation of my exhibition. The eighth section, Phenomenology and Objects as Inspiration discusses how I chose the objects in my photographs. The ninth section, Queering the Appeal of The Photograph describes my relationship to photography and the camera.
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Seventeen
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2021-07) McKenzie, Kevin Raymond; Whalley, Sean; Garneau, David; Farrell-Racette, Sherry; Foster, Stephen
Indigenous arts-based research has led me to emotionally challenging places, but also to regeneration, self-discovery, reclamation, community, kinship, and a greater understanding of Indigenous cultural knowledge. My research is centred on personal experience, whether it is reflecting on childhood trauma or engaging in Indigenous ways of knowing and doing through traditional art practices. My primary research focusses on the pursuit of Indigenous knowledge and applying that knowledge to my art practice. The thesis exhibition, Seventeen, collects and preserves the memories and knowledge my father instilled in me as a child. My father was a survivor of the Lebret (Qu’Appelle) Indian Industrial Residential School. Unfortunately, he did not survive the accumulated effects of intergenerational trauma. We lost our dear father in 1978, he was 39 years old, I was seventeen. Seventeen is a research creation project that translates my father’s teachings and his passion for hockey, into a contemporary Indigenous experience. The exhibition consists of an entire hockey ensemble--helmet, shoulder pads, protective cup, shin pads, gloves, skates, leggings, and jersey--refabricated in elk rawhide and deer skin. Upon entering the gallery, the viewer encounters a seventeen-foot in diameter circular floor installation comprised of seventeen individual hand-crafted elk rawhide and horse hair tadpoles. The tadpole motif is adopted from a Cree war shirt from the 1890s. The circle is symbolic of the circle of life, the healing circle and the circle of resistance. Near the adjacent wall stands eight plinths that display the Indigenized hockey gear. The thesis exhibition serves as a portal, that links repressed childhood memories of my father circa the mid-1970s, to my current state of Indigenous regeneration and resistance to colonial assimilation. The thesis exhibition Seventeen, has facilitated a personal transformation, through a process of reconstructing my Indigenous identity and masculinity.
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A Shape for Queerness: Glimpses, Loops, Holes, Language
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-04) Wilson, James Nicholas; Horowitz, Risa; Whalley, Sean; Garneau, David; Streifler, Leesa
A Wreath of Snakes, A Lexicon Devil, A Hole in Time, A Single Thought is a sculptural installation of 24 large-scale drawings and an artist’s book. The work is concerned with the formation of consciousness and the ways that the shared experience of queerness affects notions of time, lineage and orientation. It examines the way queerness creates a non-reproductive lineage which stops, starts and skips across time. This installation is an articulation of the contradictory bumps and associations, both obvious and esoteric, which accompany my prolonged contemplation on the subject of queerness and the making of this work. This support paper is an investigation into the ways drawing exists as a solitary erotic practice which connects bodies across time. The research which supports this work is derived primarily from Queer theorists such as Elizabeth Freeman, Jack Halberstam, Sarah Ahmed, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. It also includes the ideas of post-colonial theorist Édouard Glissant and his investigation of ‘peripheral’ identities. This MFA support paper elucidates a thought process about queerness, time, shapes, holes, orientation, and language.
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University of Regina Community Authors 2014-2015
(University of Regina Library, 2015) Aluma, Ponziano; Blake, Raymond; Bowman, Donna; Carlson Berg, Laurie; DeCoste, D. Marcel; van Eijk, Jan; Elliott, Patricia W.; Hepting, Daryl H.; Garneau, David; Yeh, Clement; Hilabold, Jean R. (pen name: Jean Roberta); Hill, Gerald; Jeffery, Bonnie; Johnston, Susan; Battis, Jes; Lankauskas, Gediminas; MacDonald, Alex; Marchildon, Gregory P.; Anderson, Carl; Kubik, Wendee; McFadzean, Cassidy; McNeil, Barbara; Nolan, Kathleen T.; Önder, Nilgün; Petty, Sheila; Polster, Claire; Pridmore, Helen; Purdham, Medrie; Trussler, Michael; Qu, Amy; Ramsay, Christine; Rogers, Randal; Ratt, Solomon; Rheault, Sylvain; Stevens, Andrew; Szabados, Bela
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University of Regina Community Authors 2015-2016
(2016) Bates-Hardy, Courtney; Benning, Sheri; Bundock, Chris; Chattopadhyay, Sutapa; Cronlund Anderson, Mark; Dahms, Tanya E. S.; Donovan, Darcy; Eaton, Emily; Elshakankiri, Maher; Farenick, Douglas; Fletcher, Amber J.; Kubik, Wendee; Garneau, David; Gidluck, Lynn; Gregory, David; Raymond-Seniuk, Christy; Patrick, Linda; Stephen, Tracy; Hillabold, Jean R. (pen name: Jean Roberta); Hurlbert, Margot; Diaz, Harry; Warren, James; James, Anne; Mather, Philippe; Rheault, Sylvain; McMullin, Brooks; McNeil, Barbara; Meagher, Karen; Montgomery, H. Monty; Ramsay, Christine; Robertson, Carmen; Steen, Sandra; Stonechild, Blair; Wolvengrey, Arok