The Place of Performance in Pacific Northwest Museums, Archives and Galleries
Preserving Performance in the Pacific Northwest: A Symposium
What approaches do the Pacific Northwest region’s museums, archives, and galleries take to the preservation of performance histories?
Katherine Bunn-Marcuse (Burke Museum of Natural History), Michelle Jacques (Art Gallery of Greater Victoria), Lou-ann Neel (Royal BC Museum) and Lara Wilson (University of Victoria Archives) come together to speak about the approaches to performance at work within their own institutional contexts. Moderated by Gatherings Co-Investigator Sasha Kovacs
VIDEO FOOTAGE: LOGAN SWAIN AND CONOR FARRELL
PHOTOS: ANNIE KONSTANTINOVA
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PRESENTER BIOS:
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse is the curator of Northwest Native art and director of the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum, and assistant professor of art history at the University of Washington. Her publications focus on the indigenization of European-American imagery, 19th-century Northwest Coast jewelry and other body adornment, and the filmic history of the Kwakwaka’wakw. In her role as curator, she collaborates with First Nations communities and artists to identify research priorities and to activate the Burke Museum’s holdings in ways that are responsive to cultural revitalization efforts.
Michelle Jacques is the chief curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
Lou-ann Neel is from the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation, and is a practicing visual artist who creates work in the Kwakwaka'wakw styles and traditions. Lou-ann is also the Repatriation Specialist at the Royal BC Museum, working closely with communities throughout BC on the repatriation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Lara Wilson is the Director, Special Collections & University Archivist, at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She has held various appointments in the University of Victoria Libraries since 2001. Lara holds a Master of Arts (Art History and Visual Studies) from the University of Victoria, and a Master of Archival Studies from the University of British Columbia. She has twice served as president of the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC); is past chairperson of the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA), and is presently serving on the boards of the Access to Memory Foundation (Chair) and the National Archival Appraisal Board (Director, BC and Northern Canada Region).
