Chapter 5 An Exploration of Discourses on Niagara Falls

Feminist Praxis in the Exhibition 1779

In: Feminist Critique and the Museum
Author:
Ash Grover
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98–114
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440180_006

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Abstract

This chapter critically engages with the curatorial work of Haudenosaunee artist and creator Shelley Niro in her exhibition titled 1779, which was on display at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in Southern Ontario leading up to the 150th celebration of Canada’s confederation. The exhibition was a re-framing of the history of the land now known as Canada and provided a critical outlook on the upcoming celebrations of colonial genocide. Using the lens of feminist discourse analysis to interpret my personal learning as a settler living in Canada, I illuminate the feminist praxis in Niro’s exhibition. I argue that the pedagogical impact of her choice to juxtapose present day and historical depictions of Niagara Falls, a popular tourist landmark in Southern Ontario, serves to decolonise the discourse of the land many Canadians now inhabit.

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Feminist Critique and the Museum

Educating for a Critical Consciousness

Cover Feminist Critique and the Museum
E-Book ISBN:
9789004440180
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
24 Aug 2020
Front Matter
Copyright page
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Stories Museums Tell
Chapter 1 Toward a Racialised Gendered Museum Literacy
Chapter 2 Infinitely Obscure Lives
Chapter 3 Fashioning Women, Defrocking Patriarchy
Chapter 4 Hacking Language
Chapter 5 An Exploration of Discourses on Niagara Falls
Chapter 6 Signs Images Words from 1968
Part 2 On War, Peace and Human Rights
Chapter 7 Whose (Military) Heritage? A Feminist Antimilitarist Analysis of Military Heritage Sites in Canada, England, and Europe
Chapter 8 The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace
Chapter 9 Familiar Brushstrokes, Different Narratives
Chapter 10 Courage and Passion and World War Women
Chapter 11 From Darkness to Light? Problematising Transformative Learning at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Part 3 Illumination, Provocation, Imagination
Chapter 12 ‘ArtActivistBarbie’
Chapter 13 The Critical Advocacies and Pedagogies of Women’s Museums
Chapter 14 A Room of Her Own
Chapter 15 Cultures of Headscarves
Chapter 16 The Invisibility Cloak
Back Matter
Index

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