The game is Not a Game 2016 An Exercise in Resilience 1,2,3 2016 Joseph Tisiga (b.1984 Alberta, Canada)
Tisiga’s work addresses the effects of colonialism on Indigenous identity, representation and experience. The text he superimposed over architectural plans from a now-demolished residential school in Whitehorse, evokes both resilience and hopelessness. References to golf courses recall land-related confrontations such as the 1990 Oka Crisis. An Exercise in Resilience incorporates natural and synthetic materials in abstract compositions that suggest aerial views of as golf course as they draw connections between the game, social status and environmental concerns.
The game is Not a Game 2016 An Exercise in Resilience 1,2,3 2016 Joseph Tisiga (b.1984 Alberta, Canada)
Tisiga’s work addresses the effects of colonialism on Indigenous identity, representation and experience. The text he superimposed over architectural plans from a now-demolished residential school in Whitehorse, evokes both resilience and hopelessness. References to golf courses recall land-related confrontations such as the 1990 Oka Crisis. An Exercise in Resilience incorporates natural and synthetic materials in abstract compositions that suggest aerial views of as golf course as they draw connections between the game, social status and environmental concerns.