Content
- Where is Brian Jungen’s Prototypes for New Understanding on display Briefly describe the exhibition.
- How does Jungen describe “the relationship between his work and the art of his native ancestors”
- Explain how Jungen creates prototypes out of mass-produced items
- In which ways do Jungen’s “skeletons evoke the stories and myths of the Northwest Coast tribes”
- ” They suggest that we need to stop thinking of the divide between nature and culture as sharp and unequivocal, that we need to give up the idea that history offers us identities and ways of living that have stable boundaries”. Explain how Jungen’s art, specifically Habitat 04 and Inside Today’s Home embody this statement.
Extended Thinking
- In what ways is Jungen’s display, Prototypes for New Understanding ironic and humorous
- Explain how sports “fulfill a kinship ritual that ceremonial competitions once did in non-western societies”. How does Jungen’s art embody this idea
Critique
- One woman comments that:
” audiences outside Canada are not likely to understand how controversial Jungen’s use of First Nations culture really is”.
” Jungen’s art subtly raises the question... of the possibility... where a kid can grow up on remote Dane-zaa lands and learn less about First Nations culture than about the television programs and pop music and hip-hop fashions worshiped by kids in Toronto.
Explain how these quotes contradict each other.
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