Digitized Dialects & Encoded Traditions: hybrid paradigms & affirmative transitions

May 22 – June 23, 2007
Exhibition

About the Program

In Digitized Dialects & Encoded Traditions: hybrid paradigms & affirmative transitions, multi-disciplinary Cree-Métis artist, Jude Norris, employs idiosyncratic combinations of 'Native' material, language, traditional creative practice, and iconography with elements of western technology, art practice, theory, and language. Grounded by a strong aesthetic sensibility, and often a subtle humour, her work is an exploration and expression of the oddness and challenges of contemporary colonized reality. Norris writes on the surface of deer antlers; in her work Braver Antler her tiny, disciplined words repeat the phrase “I am brave.” Similarly, in The Imperfect Doll, her hand-crafted doll, carefully beaded and produced through traditional crafting methods, becomes a site for the written word: words are inscribed in looping handwriting over the surface of her dress. The doll is propped in front of a tiny television set. In Big Apple Antler, Norris projects images from New York City’s heavily text-laden urban environment—in this case a flower shop—onto the surface of an antler, associating text with image as well as the urban with the natural world.

Artist

Jude Norris

Credits

Installation: Daina Warren

Identifier

2007.0522 DIG

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

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