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ART SECTION 2 - Battle for the Woodlands Flashcards

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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)

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Bonnie Devine

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Made “Battle for the Woodlands”

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Bonnie Devine

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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

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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

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Two artists that did ephemeral site performances

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Rebecca Belmore and Ana Mendieta

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Made “Canoe”

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Bonnie Devine

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

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Bonnie Devine

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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

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Art historian that describes Devine’s artwork “Canoe”

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Cynthia Fowlers

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

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British, American, and Indigenous People

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

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Mark Cheetham

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Served as the Founding Chair of its Indigenous Visual Culture Program

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Bonnie Devine

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What did the “Reclamation Project” consist of

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

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Why did Devine create the “Reclamation Project”?

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As a response to the Ipperwash Crisis

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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

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What happened during the Ipperwash Crisis

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

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

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6

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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

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

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10 or more minutes

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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

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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

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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

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

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permanent to its site or of possessing it

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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

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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

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How long is the canoe in “Canoe”

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16ft

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How many pages from Devine’s MFA thesis was used in “Canoe”

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Hundreds

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How was “Canoe” displayed

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Suspended from the ceiling

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Devine displayed “Canoe” as part of

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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

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2

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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

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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

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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)

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What is a cause of the “catastrophic habitat loss”

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Colonial settlement

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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

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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

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Central element to “consciousness” about land

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representation

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

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The map where the painting began

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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

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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

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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

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