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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/42d5623d-5651-470b-b9f8-f4bce323a632

Title: Anspayaxw

Description: The images and sounds of Wynne's Anspayaxw hang in the border zones between anthropology and art, drawing attention to the subjective nature of language documentation and photography, and the multiple layers of translation that are central to the documentation and interpretation process. It is Wynne's navigation of this border space between disciplinary practices that is most unsettling about the work. The sounds and images, the products of ethnographic and linguistic research, are edited and remixed to resist easy interpretation. Reality, Wynne suggests, is never symmetrical. This is a quality that the doubled images are intended to reflect. The imperfect reflections counter the viewer's desire for symmetry; they disrupt the sense that what is seen and heard can be simply understood. Relations of power are rarely symmetrical either, but there are spaces of negotiation in between. [Kate Hennessy excerpt from 'Asymmetrical Translations: John Wynne’s Anspayaxw'] The installation can be found under this permanent link: http://www.sensitivebrigade.com/Anspayaxw.htm

Date created: 2011-05-05

Location

Continent: Americas

Country: Canada

Region: British Columbia

Address: British Columbia

Project

ID: FTG0101

Name: 0237-FTG0101

Description: Gitksanimx is the language spoken by the First Nations people who live in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Gitksan is known to have different speech registers, manifested through a variety of sentence constructions and discourse particles that can distinguish the different functions of a narrative. The objective of this project is to establish a foundational body of video, audio and text documents conceptually and thematically centred on the narrative, specifically including the telling of stories and legends, the relaying of personal history, and the description of the events involved in modern day life.

Content

Genre: Art installation

Languages

Language

Name: Gitxsan

Description: Content Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: John Wynne

Role: author

Actor

Full Name: Denise Hawrysio

Role: photographer

Written Resources

Filename: Ksan_poster_Anspayaxw_sm.pdf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/70400914-8545-44e7-9ab3-e3208eac8aa1

File type: Document

Access: O

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