ART SECTION 2 - Battle for the Woodlands

Question 1

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is an indigenous installation artist, curator, writer and educator, and member of the Serpent River First Nation of Northern Ontario (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe)

Answer 1

Bonnie Devine

Question 2

Made “Battle for the Woodlands”

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Bonnie Devine

Question 3

Studied art at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) and earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from York University

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Bonnie Devine

Question 4

Made the installation “Reclamation Project”

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Bonnie Devine

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An Anishinaabe protester that got shot and killed by the police in the Ipperwash Crisis

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Dudley George

Question 6

Two artists that did ephemeral site performances

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Rebecca Belmore and Ana Mendieta

Question 7

Made “Canoe”

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Bonnie Devine

Question 8

Made the multi-media installation “Stories from the Shield”

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Bonnie Devine

Question 9

Depicted who in a video part of the “Stories from the Shield” that discusses the negative effects that uranium mining has on the Serpent River First Nation

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Bonnie Devine’s family members

Question 10

Art historian that describes Devine’s artwork “Canoe”

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Cynthia Fowlers

Question 11

Devine depicts which three groups clashing in “Battle for the Woodlands”

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British, American, and Indigenous People

Question 12

Art historian that acknowledges “the Indigenous peoples who continue to experience displacement”

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Mark Cheetham

Question 13

Served as the Founding Chair of its Indigenous Visual Culture Program

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Bonnie Devine

Question 14

What did the “Reclamation Project” consist of

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A strip of sod that she draped across different landscapes in southern Ontario

Question 15

Why did Devine create the “Reclamation Project”?

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As a response to the Ipperwash Crisis

Question 16

What was the Ipperwash Crisis

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An Ontario Provincial Police action against an Indigenous protest at Camp Ipperwash in the Kettler and Stony Point First Nation in September 1995

Question 17

What happened during the Ipperwash Crisis

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An Anishinaabe protest, Dudley George, was shot and killed by the police

Question 18

How many rolls of sod was installed for the “Reclamation Project”

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6

Question 19

What did Devine do to comment on the “Reclamation Project”

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She installed 6 rolls of sod at various locations for 10 or more minutes just enough to take a polaroid picture

Question 20

How long did the rolls of sod in the “Reclamation Project” stay up for

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10 or more minutes

Question 21

What was the first site in the “Reclamation Project”

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A gravel road that adjoins to fields in the Lynde Shores Convention Area

Question 22

Where was the sod in another site in the “Reclamation Project”

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The sod adorned the front steps of a sizeable health institute in downtown Toronto

Question 23

What did the fleetingness of the sod’s placement serve in “Reclamation Project”

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To highlight the difference in timescales of colonial land claims in present-day Ontario and Devine’s own reclamation of such lands

Question 24

Devine’s work didn’t seek the status of being

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permanent to its site or of possessing it

Question 25

Another of Devine's earlier works includes techniques of

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sewing to examine and sustain those traditional art-making techniques of Anishinaabe/Ojibwe culture

Question 26

What did Devine stitch together in "Canoe" and for what

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Hundreds of pages from her MFA thesis to form a 16 ft canoe

Question 27

How long is the canoe in "Canoe"

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16ft

Question 28

How many pages from Devine's MFA thesis was used in "Canoe"

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Hundreds

Question 29

How was "Canoe" displayed

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Suspended from the ceiling

Question 30

Devine displayed "Canoe" as part of

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A part of a larger, multi-media installation titled "Stories from the Shield"

Question 31

What was included in the installation "Stories from the Shield"

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Drawings, rocks and tree stumps that Devine wrapped in silk threads, and video depicting her family members discussing the negative effects that uranium mining has had on the Serpent River Nation

Question 32

What did Cynthia Fowler describe about Devine's thesis

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The pages from Devine's thesis included descriptions of traditional canoe technology, the 1850 Robinson Treaty, and the documentation of Devine's research on the 1950s uranium-mining debacle

Question 33

For what display did Devine make "Battle for the Woodlands" for

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To display in its own room in the Art Gallery of Ontario

Question 34

What's included in "Battle for the Woodlands"

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freestanding sculpture made from maple and willow trees and decorated moose and buffalo hides, the work is anchored by a 19th century colonial map of the border region between Upper Canada, Lower Canada, and the U.S.

Question 35

How many Great Lakes are included in the colonial map in "Battle for the Woodlands"

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2

Question 36

What does Devine depict in the colonial map in "Battle for the Woodlands"

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The entire aquatic system of the 5 Great Lakes and the clashes between the British, American, and Indigenous People

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5 animals that depict the 5 Great Lakes

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buffalo, otter, turtle, rabbit, and leviathan

Question 38

What was used to paint the 5 animals for the 5 Great Lakes

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Red Oxide

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Where were the beads placed in the colonial map

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Along borderlines once established by treaties that were later broken

Question 40

What does the painting show of dozens of animals doing

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Fleeing to the West which is described as the "catastrophic habitat loss" (includes deer, bison, bear, and rabbits)

Question 41

What is a cause of the "catastrophic habitat loss"

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Colonial settlement

Question 42

What implications does Devine show through "Battle for the Woodlands"

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Forced occupation, not only on political borders, but also on the ecological life in the places where those military battles are staged

Question 43

How does Devine describe her earliest installation in "Stories from the Shield"

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She wants to examine and articulate the relationship of land to consciousness, especially because they are shown in technology, designs, and narrative traditions of the Ojibway

Question 44

Central element to "consciousness" about land

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representation

Question 45

What in "Battle for the Woodlands" is a means of representing land

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The map where the painting began

Question 46

What do the names on the map in "Battle for the Woodlands" do

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Identify landmarks like rivers and lakes and designate ownership by nations like US and Canada

Question 47

How does Devine show a different approach to imagining territory in "Battle for the Woodlands"

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By layering an opposing visual map overtop of the colonial one

Question 48

The colonial map in "Battle for the Woodlands" draw divisions within territory, but what shows connection rather than separation

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representation of animals, water, land, and people in co-existence