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On the other hand, through the lens of a Peace Treaty, the W̱SÁNEĆ people understand this moment as a set of promises that were to be reviewed annually (i.e., rents etc. Choosing the right species, tips for planting, care and maintenance. my browser now. Each place in W̱SÁNEĆ territory has a SENĆOŦEN name and identity, knowledge which has been kept and held by the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. ICEVIEW MAGAZINE - On Solitude and Artmaking: A Conversation with Gudrun Filipska of The Arts Territory Exchange. The former suggests an imposing of self and voice upon those that share the space, whereas the latter feels like a borrowing with consent. Tsawout First Nation is one of five W̱SÁNEĆ Communities on southern Vancouver Island.
Jacqueline Jim ŦE NE SNÁ. Walking with Carol Maurer, February 2018, Dorchester County, Maryland. This opening is a start, making room for a process of editing, deletions, additions, etc. Ice Culture : Interview with Willona Sloan. Begun in 2017, the project is led by Daphne Plessner and Emily Artinian. Therefore, central to the Clouded Title project is building multi-perspectival understandings of ownership, through the participation of diverse groups, and especially alongside artists who work in this terrain. …. In the past 40-years there has been an escalation of suburban development, brokered and promoted through local government. The work has been presented publicly in several spaces: as a workshop on Pender Island, British Columbia, an exhibition at Street Road, and as part of the panel Reconsidering Place: troubling the urban/rural binary for artist practices and organizations hosted by Plessner and Artinian at Common Field’s 2019 convening in Philadelphia. I also feel a responsibility to the W̱SÁNEĆ people not to tacitly endorse or perform the ongoing epistemic violence of settler appropriation when residing on W̱SÁNEĆ territory by saying and doing nothing to contest the fiction of settler entitlement. Update your browser to view this website correctly. Citizen Artist News: Clouded Title invited island residents to participate in a public ‘thought experiment’ that detailed the historical and current colonial rationale for the appropriation and (private) possession of Indigenous lands within this region (W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation territory) by the Crown and as purportedly sanctioned by the Douglas Treaty: North Saanich (1852). In summary, the idea of developing an art intervention that engages with the experience of place emerged from the pressing reality and tacit complications of living within a community that is characterised through British colonial claim-making that also suppresses knowledge of the locale as within W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) First Nation territory. We are especially interested in walking being explored by artists as a mode of claim making. 2/ I [we] would like to respectfully acknowledge that the land on which we gather is in traditional Mi’kmaw territory, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of all the Mi’kmaw, Innu, and Inuit Peoples of this province. The insertion of such a revised document into this and other arenas specifically within the territory of real estate practice (such as trade fairs, conferences, business associations) is important to the project, especially as it is in these spaces where normative understandings go so unchallenged and unconsidered. For example, on the one hand, narratives of the State’s appropriation of land as a treatied ‘sale’ dominates the imaginaries of island residents as a space to which residents ‘belong’.
Related readings included Tim Edensor’s Sensing the ruin (2007), Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Stone, an ecology of the inhuman (2015), and Rebecca Solnit’s ‘Detroit Arcadia: exploring the post-American landscape’ (Harpers, 2007). Citizen Artist News Clouded Title therefore made visible the implicit biases contained within the Treaty’s colonial interpretation as a purported sale of land and the ongoing asymmetrical practices of appropriation that of course favour the settler community. Is ownership more to do with power or with a sense of belonging? W̱SÁNEĆ SEN: I AM EMERGING 8 ĆSE LÁ,E SEN (I am from…): Identifying and locating myself. Pender Island is also primarily a retired, middle class, community with a (now) majority of residents of British ancestry. Citizen Artist News: Clouded Title focused on the problematics of British colonial appropriation of lands and the specifics of residing on Pender Island, which is within the unceded territory of W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation. The sound would travel, echo, and envelope the space and those within it. The designation of Pender Island’s ‘rurality’ also determines the domain of local government (voting districts, gerrymandering etc.) (1) Some notable recent texts that have informed this work: Graham, J (2017) Architecture Against a Developer Presidency; Kiel, R (2018) Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside; Reid Ross, A (2014) Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab; Sassen, S (2014) Expulsions:Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy; Stein, S (2019) Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. Allow Facebook friends to see your upcoming events? They are greening over. The (false) narrative of ‘ownership’ sanctions colonial-capitalist assumptions of possession and it underpins beliefs about belonging and membership to the Canadian State. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information. The results of this (personal, political and economic) history are inscribed in the terrain but are also ironically rebuked by the current environmental degradation of the land. This initial stage of the walk retraced the roads and pathways that both Maurer’s ancestors and slaves would have traversed. With Clouded Title, the group developed a one-day workshop, centered on a walk around Gorton Monastery and its environs, on the eastern side of Manchester. An insertion: ‘Chthulucene’, with reference to other Real Estate Dictionary entries such as ‘Effective age’. However, they are regarded by the State and its subjects as if they are the property of, initially, the British Crown (1850 – 1982) and now, the Canadian State (1982 – present). #canada_events Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre. Citizen Artist News: Clouded Title therefore invited readers to think through the false logic and claims to the possession of W̱SÁNEĆ lands. Find out more about how your privacy is protected. The project is rooted in Maurer’s own family history of slave ownership and agrarian British colonial appropriation of lands within the region, enfolded in an ancestral network of legislators working through Washington DC, reaching back to the 18th century and continuing until abolition. Is this ownership or inhabitation? Your email will only be seen by the event organizer. These islands are in fact unceded. #victoria_hobbies_classes
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. The islands (including Pender Island) are understood as ‘ancestors’ and kin relations. The book will eventually be re-bound and the new edition will be sent to the publisher and editors, potentially in successive editions. A collective process: the potentially infinite, Borgesian undertaking of rewriting a dictionary is yes, mad. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. — Acknowledgement provided by Of fice of Aboriginal Affairs, This aspect of ‘ownership’ was brought to light first through the work of Carol Maurer and her project titled Walking Forward, Looking Back.
The space was named for the toponym by which the site is located (Street Road, aka PA Route 926) – specifically for its aptness to the overall project: etymologically ‘Street Road’ derives from via strata, or ‘paved road’, encoding histories of human and land intertwinings, particularly human impulses to map, possess, use and constrain place and space. The newspaper and the workshop together therefore drew attention to the ongoing epistemic violence of colonial narratives within this local community. Community events, news and information. NETWORKS AND POPULISMS / DIVISIONS AND STITCHES – A VIEW FROM EUROPE.
The term ‘clouded title’ is used in real estate law and practice to indicate a situation in which title to a plot, parcel, or object is not free and clear for one reason or another.
We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. This has emerged as an important thematic for Clouded Title overall. #things_to_do_in_victoria We will then introduce briefly two other artists’ projects that are included in Clouded Title, and that have taken an embodied approach to research and making, an exceptionally good ground for thinking through questions around ownership. Clusters and Entanglements is a group of research students based in Manchester, UK who run a series of embodied reading workshops, with a focus on environmental and eco-phenomenological debate. The Real Estate Dictionary: Improved Edition A collective editing, convened by Emily Artinian. After 30 days refunds and workshop exchanges are not permitted due to administrative staffing capacity. And it has been a good starting point for what has become a central initiative of Street Road, a project called Clouded Title. The fact of this privileging of British ethnic histories and claims to possession of land and belonging (with a focus on historically storied virtuous farming families), continues to obfuscate the reality of not only living on appropriated W̱SÁNEĆ lands but also aggressively flattens the complexity of other ethnic histories and peoples that have resided within this space from the 1870s to the present day. In addition to taking up the term ‘clouded title’ as a lens for understanding ownership of land or property, this can also be understood as a methodology for our process. In Lekwungen and WSÁNEĆ territories there is a diverse range of habitat for native plant species. How to incorporate and use these at home. Only current members in good standing are eligible to use the free ticket option as a part of their member benefits package. I do not shout.”.
Beangka Elliott brings experience with native plant restoration projects, including the SṈIDȻEȽ resiliency project and Project Reclaim: WSÁNEĆ Youth Food Justice.
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