ART SEEN: Joseph Tisiga exhibition takes on the nuances of cultural appropriation

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Joseph Tisiga, a Kaska Dena artist based in Whitehorse, describes himself as a “cultural amnesiac” who grew up in the “beige confluence of Western culture.”

Joseph Tisiga pulled off something unusual for his first major museum exhibition at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler. He created three major works on site.

“We’re going to become this site of creation,” he said. “That will become part of our contemporary identity.” Over the years, Jackson made numerous imitation First Nations masks, beaded bags and buckskin, bowls, textiles, drums, papoose carriers and mini totem poles. Some of it was created under the direction of First Nations people. Jackson never passed himself off as indigenous.

The sylix say they’re reclaiming their heritage by “readdressing the Oliver Jackson collection, not to offend but to utilize as a learning tool to better understand the difference between appropriation and appreciation.” In an article published in Canadian Art two years ago, Tisiga wrote that having worked as a program support worker and a manager of the emergency youth shelter at the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre in Whitehorse has instilled in him a “deep sense of contemporary mythic conflict.”

 

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