Title

Insurgent Message for Canada

Artist

Heap of Birds, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar

Date

2008

Owner

SFU Art Collection

Accession Number

N/A

Location

Simon Fraser University, Academic Quadrangle

Category

SFU Art Collection

Collection

Public Art

Lat/Long

49.27947957305704,-122.91673879035986

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Insurgent Messages for Canada was part of a series of works produced for grunt gallery (a Vancouver artist-run centre) and Nuit Blanche (Toronto). It was originally installed on billboards and bus stops throughout Vancouver and Toronto. Recognizing Canada's role as a perpetrator of imperial violence, the large-blocked text is meant to directly confront and critique the legitimacy of Canadian statehood and settlement, while similarly called into question colonially imposed regulators of Indigenous identity." This work is part of the Simon Fraser University Art Collection. The SFU Art Collection contains over 5,800 works. Approximately 1,000 works of art are shown throughout the campus and integrated in public, administrative and common learning spaces. A selection of the most accessible in this diverse repository are incorporated into the City of Burnaby Public Art Registry. For more extensive information about the holdings at SFU, visit: https://www.sfu.ca/galleries/Collections.html (text provided by SFU)