Week 4: Jules Koostachin
1. Watch The Video Lecture |
In this video, professional documentary film maker, Jules Koostachin discusses Indigenous media and working with Indigenous communities on various multi-modal projects and partnerships. She beings the lecture discussing important lessons, methods and protocols of working with Indigenous communities. She then walks us through a series of visual projects that range from documentary work, to installation art, to monuments in public spaces, to reality TV. In each of the projects she discusses the successes, challenges, and outcomes of the projects.
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2. Required Readings
Meyer, M. A. Our own liberation: reflections on Hawaiian Epistemology. In The contemporary Pacific. Vol. 13(1). Spring 2001 (pp. 124-148).
Morin, P. Hearing language and launch a feast for scavengers- an example of Indigenous listening of an Indigenous story in Western contexts. Mcleod, N. (2007). Chapter 2: Cree narratives of place. In Cree narrative memory: from treaties to contemporary times. pp. 19-32. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing Ltd. (C.P) Crosby, M. (1997). Nations in urban landscape: Faye Heavy Shield, Shelly Niro, and Eric Robertson. Curator Marcia Crosby. Vancouver. Hubbard, T. (2009). The buffaloes are gone or return: Buffalo? - The relationship of the buffalo to Indigenous creative expression. The Canadian journal of Native Studies, 29(1), 65-85. (C.P) Sinclair, N.J., (2010). Trickster reflections, Part 1. In Troubling Tricksters: revisioning critical conversations. D. Reder & L.M. Morra (eds.). Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press. Pp.21-58 (C.P) |
3. Assignments and reflections...
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