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April 2018

Self-Guided Tour: qeqən: Musqueam House Posts

  • Jordan Wilson

    Writer

    Jordan Wilson is a Vancouver-based emerging curator and writer, and is currently Curatorial Intern at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. He is a member of the Musqueam First Nation, whose traditional, ancestral and unceded territory encompasses what is now Vancouver, BC. Wilson holds an MA in Anthropology (with a focus on critical museum studies) and a BA in First Nations Studies (now First Nations and Indigenous Studies), both obtained at the University of British Columbia. Wilson was a co-curator of the exhibits c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city (2015) and In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art (2017) at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. He has spent time researching and receiving training at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, the University of Tromsø in the Sápmi region of arctic Norway and at the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM.

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This self-guided walking tour of qeqən: A Walking Tour of Musqueam House Posts at UBC conveys how the Musqueam house posts on campus, both past and present, are markers of Musqueam’s relationship with its territory through time, particularly with the land that is now commonly known as UBC.  The guide, researched and written by Jordan Wilson, is a part of a larger initiative of the Belkin to animate outdoor artworks on campus, both within and outside of its collection. The guide provides context for how the house posts relate to one another, Musqueam territory and to UBC history. The self-guided walking tour takes approximately three hours to complete with stops.

Copies of the guide are available for free at the Belkin or you can download a copy here. For more information, contact belkin.gallery@ubc.ca or (604) 822-2759.

 

 

  • Jordan Wilson

    Writer

    Jordan Wilson is a Vancouver-based emerging curator and writer, and is currently Curatorial Intern at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. He is a member of the Musqueam First Nation, whose traditional, ancestral and unceded territory encompasses what is now Vancouver, BC. Wilson holds an MA in Anthropology (with a focus on critical museum studies) and a BA in First Nations Studies (now First Nations and Indigenous Studies), both obtained at the University of British Columbia. Wilson was a co-curator of the exhibits c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city (2015) and In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art (2017) at the UBC Museum of Anthropology. He has spent time researching and receiving training at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, the University of Tromsø in the Sápmi region of arctic Norway and at the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM.

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