Post by Okwes on Feb 28, 2007 15:44:26 GMT -5
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www.nicholasgalanin.com "What Have We Become?" W/ David Elsewhere
Tsu Héidei Shugaxtutaan: we will again open this container of wisdom that has been left in our care
In the past, Tlingit culture had preserved history orally through story telling, song and the visual arts. To investigate more about my cultural history and heritage I have found myself reading western literature, often written through foreign perspective, which in turn has been digested and recycled back into the culture. Though this medium is important in the retention of a culture, it raises questions within identity and for me as a contemporary Tlingit artist. It also poses a type of cross-roads where both the old and new, the customary and the contemporary collide and overlap. It is at these meeting points that a new dynamic and a certain tension is negotiated. (more)
www.nicholasgalanin.com "What Have We Become?" W/ David Elsewhere
Tsu Héidei Shugaxtutaan: we will again open this container of wisdom that has been left in our care
In the past, Tlingit culture had preserved history orally through story telling, song and the visual arts. To investigate more about my cultural history and heritage I have found myself reading western literature, often written through foreign perspective, which in turn has been digested and recycled back into the culture. Though this medium is important in the retention of a culture, it raises questions within identity and for me as a contemporary Tlingit artist. It also poses a type of cross-roads where both the old and new, the customary and the contemporary collide and overlap. It is at these meeting points that a new dynamic and a certain tension is negotiated. (more)