Nations by Artists Podcast

Nations By Artists Episode 2: Borders

Episode Summary

A Pan-American road trip, a roving border office, a document refusing citizenship, and a whole mess of paper and plasterwork. These are some of the ways that artists are exploring the makings of national boundaries and making connections across territories. Co-hosts Sarah Robayo Sheridan and Mikinaak Migwans interview artists and share stories from behind the scenes of the Nations By Artists exhibition on view at the Art Museum until April 2, 2022.

Episode Notes

Artists featured in this episode: 

• Greg Hil
• Alan Michelson
• Pablo Helguera
• Native Art Department International (NADI)
• G. Peter Jemison

Further Reading

• “Alan Michelson & Jolene Rickard on Native Sovereignty,” Dec 7, 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSrFZX1TQk4
• Joseph Heath, “The Citizenship Act of 1924” (report), OnondagaNation.org, June 7, 2018, https://www.onondaganation.org/news/2018/the-citizenship-act-of-1924/
• Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014).
• Pablo Helguero and Sarah Demeuse (editors), School of Panamerican Unrest Anthology (United States: Jorge Pinto Books, 2011).
• Rebecca McGrew et al, It Happened at Pomona : Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 (Claremont, CA: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2011).
• Ming Tiampo, “Gutai: Splendid Playground,” Guggenheim exhibition website, http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/gutai/'

Music: Cris Derksen: North, 21, Sorry, Dark Dance (℗©2013 Cris Derksen, represented by Latitude 45 Arts)

The Art Museum gratefully acknowledges operating support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council, with additional project support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Produced by Aliya Pabani.