Dancing Mounties, Flamingo Pink Jackets, Culture and Elitism
25 Apr 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 1 Comments
At the closing ceremonies for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, as crooner Michael Buble belted out the lyrics to the 1867 nation-building anthem “The Maple Leaf Forever,” centre stage at BC Place Stadium was overtaken by a spectacle of dancing helium-filled balloon statues, including gigantic prancing moose and beavers, gold-medal-toting 20-foot-tall hockey players and plaid-shirted lumberjacks.
Continue Reading...What we can learn from populism
30 Mar 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 0 Comments
NIFCA, the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, was marvelously prescient in 2005 when it organized Populism, a touring exhibition that explored connections between the art system and populist ideology.
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