The Traveling Alter Native Medicine Show

March 16 – April 3, 1999
Exhibition

About the Program

The Traveling Alter Native Medicine Show highlights the collaborative work of Janice Toulouse Shingwaak and Leonard Beam. The work selected for this exhibition was based on a large body of multimedia work created over the previous year and included charcoal rubbings, photography, prints, paintings, collage, and wood constructions. The works were part of an experimental documentation process that was created during their travels across Canada and the United States. Specific sites that were chosen to be documented/recorded were places of historical significance, official landmarks, and tourist attractions that were relative to Indigenous peoples. The Traveling Alter Native Medicine Show is a ride through history. It implodes the markers of history left behind by those who have claimed this land as their own. It implodes history itself, making tactile the many layers of history that are present along the way. The exhibition was guest curated by Lynn Hill and toured to the Thunder Bay Art Gallery and the Indian Art Centre in Ottawa.

Artist

Leonard Beam, Janice Toulouse Shingwaak

Curator

Lynn Hill

Identifier

1999.0316 THE

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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