#Dane-zaa artist

[indigenouscontemporaryart]

Brian Jungen | top: Warrior 1. 2017 | bottom: Warrior 2. 2017. Made from Nike Air Jordans and leather.

Brian Jungen’s internationally acclaimed art practice involves the re-purposing of everyday commercial objects including Nike Air Jordans, golf bags and patio chairs. Jungen's work speaks to a long history of cultural inequality, a concern for the environment and a profound commitment to Indigenous ways of knowing and making. 

#Dane-zaa art #Dane-zaa artist #Indigenous art #contemporary art #INDIGENOUS CONTEMPORARY ART #brian jungen #nikesportswear #warrior #repurposed #athabascan art #athabascan artist #sculpture #indigenous sculpture #contemporary sculpture

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[TASK 261: DENE PEOPLES]

In celebration of Native Heritage Month being November (info in source link below), there’s a masterlist below compiled of over 70+ Dene Peoples faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. When referring to Dene peoples, this refers specifically to the Babine, Chipewyan, Dakelh, Dane-zaa, Gwich’in, Kaska, Lheidli T'enneh, Sahtú, Sekani, Slavey, T'atsaot'ine, Tahltan, Tanana, Tsilhqotʼin, Tsuu T’ina, Tłı̨chǫ, and Wet’suwet’en peoples. If you want an extra challenge use a randomizer to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

CLICK HERE FOR MASTERLIST!

#dene fc #native fc #indigenous fc #fc of color #poc fc #fc list #rph #underused fc #task: 261 #task: dene peoples

[yuchennpan-blog]

Brian jungen is an artist of Dane-Zaa and Swiss ancestry living in Canada. Issues of indigeneity and identity are central to many of his works. Jungen works in a diverse range of two and three dimensional materials, which makes him a leading figure of a new generation of Vancouver Artists. His works and Yeil Ya Tseen’s works are very similar, where both of them addresses the issue of changing identity between native and non-native. Also, what I found interesting is that both artist use very similar approach in creating art. Both of them  rework images or objects, recomposing them to create new works of their own. For instance, Yeil Ya Tseen reworks over dated images, combining them with more modern photographs. 

In Jungen’s series Prototypes of New Understanding, he reassemble parts of Nike Air Jordan Shoes into pieces of new works.

[greenartedcp301-blog]

Brian Jungen

Brian Jungen is an indigenous artist from the Northern Okanagan, British Columbia. Brian is part of the Dane-Zaa nation. His art works to combine his heritage from both his mother and father's sides. Additionally, through his art, he works to make connections between western art, First Nations Art and the global economy. Brian has tried to create a style for himself that separates him from the stereotype of only doing work that falls in the scope of "First Nations Art". Although his work is now known and shown globally, he prefers to keep the focus of his life on his work. Brian uses both two dimensional and three-dimensional pieces of art. Some of his most recognized pieces are created by the repurposing of various items such as running shoes and sport equipment.

#https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jungen https://canadianart.ca/artists/brian-jungen

[abtec]

Dion Intro Post

Hello everyone! My name is Dion Smith-Dokkie and I recently joined Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) as a research assistant and social media coordinator. Over the next few months I’ll be introducing AbTeC’s team to you, learning about Indigeneity online and in virtual reality, and bringing you news about our work here!

I’m a member of West Moberly First Nations, a Treaty 8 nation located in northeastern British Columbia. My mother is Dane-zaa, Cree, Saulteaux, English, Scottish and Irish; my father is a white settler whose ancestors come from the British Isles. I’ve worked for various organizations as a researcher, administrator, and intern and I hold a degree in Women’s Studies from the University of Victoria. I’m currently pursuing a BFA in Studio Arts (soon to be Painting and Drawing) at Concordia University in Montreal!

I had heard of AbTeC a few years ago when I was doing some skimming on Indigenous Futurisms. My own research has focused on the creative productions of Indigenous women and 2-Spirits, using things like Indigenous literary studies and poetry, cyborg theory, and queer theory to attempt to give context to the social, political, and artistic milieux of these artists and their work.

My interests in terms of AbTeC’s work range from Indigenous presence online and in virtual platforms, gender, race and self-representation through avatars and other media, using technology to alter or extend embodiment and perception, and the material conditions of Indigenous peoples that have contributed to the development of things like the Internet, social media, and smartphones.

I’m excited to see how my time at AbTeC informs my presently new artistic practice! I am interested in exploring portraiture and embodiment, cyborg theory and Indigeneity, the relationship between the land and virtual reality, affect, cartography, love and sexuality.

#Aboriginal Territories in Cybersapce #AbTeC #Initiative for Indigenous Futures #IIF #tiotiake #indigenous futurism #2spirit #May 26 2017 #Author: Dion

[noifsandsorbutlers]

Photo Source - https://thewalrus.ca/air-jungen/

This week after reading Decolonization is not a Metaphor, I was reminded of one of a very cool Canadian artist I learned about a while ago, Brian Jungen. Jungen’s father is Swiss and his mother is of the Dane-zaa Nation, in BC. (There is a good little article by the Nation Gallery of Canada about Jungen here - https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=25208)

Jungen takes materials and repurposes them into art. An example is this mask made with Nike Air Jordon shoes. A quote from the National Gallery of Canada says, “Jungen has stated that it is a deliberate choice to create works out of materials produced by the sports industry; an industry that appropriates Aboriginal terminology, such as the team names The Chiefs, Indians, Redskins and Braves.” I think this is really interesting, because he is taking icons and symbols from an industry that had appropriated icons and symbols of Aboriginal peoples, and then re-appropriating them into art. 

I think you could take this a bunch of interesting directions. One would be how is a piece of art like this informed by remediation, or how does itself inform on remediation? Certainly pieces of iconography are being remediated here in order to make a statement. The statement itself is made through the act remediation however, which draws attention to how iconography is repurposed or stolen. Another direction you could investigate this is how does this work in conjunction with the idea of decolonization as a metaphor? This piece of art could be considered a metaphorical act, however I think you could also argue that it is a actual physical act and so not just metaphorical, as Jungen has not just drawn the mask made of Nike shoes, but actually taken the shoes and make them into a physical mask. Questions to ponder!

-Rachel Prins

#graded post #week7