MORE THAN VISIBLE: PHOTOGRAPHY, ECOLOGY + CONTACT CULTURE IN THE SALISHAN LANDSCAPE TSLEX TE SK’ULT.S TE TMICW

Central Gallery
June 27 to September 12, 2015

Curated by CAUSA / Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts

Prior to disruptive contact with colonial educators, the First Peoples of North America did not distinguish between craft and fine art. Traditionally, expressions of material and spiritual culture were grounded and conjoined in a concentric network of relationships that fluently linked language to place – place to placement – and placement to purpose. In this context, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company completed its transcontinental line in 1885. From Banff, Alberta to Kamloops, British Columbia (and onwards from Kamloops to Vancouver), the railway would subsequently connect each of the Interior and Coast Salish territories.