01 Jun 2021
Lisa Jackson, Savage (2009)
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Lisa Jackson
ArtistLisa Jackson is an artist, speaker and consultant whose work extends into community, showing in galleries and museums as well as educational institutions and conferences. She was a consulting programmer at Hot Docs, sits on the National Film Board of Canada’s Indigenous Advisory Committee and was a contributor to the Indigenous Screen Office’s On-Screen Protocols and Pathways Guide. Jackson has presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal’s C2 Conference, judicial conferences and at events by the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Community Foundations Canada. She was Artist in Residence at the University of British Columbia and Queens University, and for five years was the Director Mentor for the National Screen Institute’s IndigiDocs program. Jackson received an Inspirit Foundation grant to create a law school impact campaign for her film Indictment: The Crimes Of Shelly Chartier and was Director of the Gladue Video Project, a pilot with Osgoode Hall Law School to make video profiles of Indigenous offenders for use in the court system. She is co-author, with NYU Professor Eugenia Kisin, of the chapter “Careful Images: Unsettling Testimony in the Gladue Video Project” for Insiders/Outsiders: The Cultural Politics and Ethics of Representation and Participation in Canada’s Media Arts (ed. Ezra Winton and Dana Claxton), scheduled for release in 2021.
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On a summer day in the 1950s, a native girl watches the countryside go by from the backseat of a car. A woman at her kitchen table sings a lullaby in her Cree language. When the girl arrives at her destination, she undergoes a transformation that will turn the woman’s gentle voice into a howl of anger and pain. In a place like this, there aren’t many chances to be a kid. But, when no one’s watching…
A residential school musical.
(From lisajackson.ca / doornumber3.ca)
In 2013, the Belkin screened Lisa Jackson’s Savage as part of the exhibition Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. The exhibition was occasioned by a gathering, the Dialogue on the History and Legacy of the Indian Residential Schools, held at the UBC First Nations House of Learning on November 1, 2011. At the conclusion of the daylong meeting, Chief Robert Joseph asked those present if we could act to raise awareness of the history and legacy of the residential schools. Thus, the idea of the exhibition came to be – as a response to a request. An exhibition of art seemed a way to bring the issues around residential schools to a broad audience, while considering the impact of the schools on art itself. We share this work by Lisa Jackson now in 2021 having learned of the heartbreaking and tragic discovery of the remains of 215 children buried at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. To view a clip of this film, visit www.lisajackson.ca.
Image (above): Lisa Jackson, Savage (production still), 2009, video. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Kris Krüg
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Lisa Jackson
ArtistLisa Jackson is an artist, speaker and consultant whose work extends into community, showing in galleries and museums as well as educational institutions and conferences. She was a consulting programmer at Hot Docs, sits on the National Film Board of Canada’s Indigenous Advisory Committee and was a contributor to the Indigenous Screen Office’s On-Screen Protocols and Pathways Guide. Jackson has presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Montreal’s C2 Conference, judicial conferences and at events by the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Community Foundations Canada. She was Artist in Residence at the University of British Columbia and Queens University, and for five years was the Director Mentor for the National Screen Institute’s IndigiDocs program. Jackson received an Inspirit Foundation grant to create a law school impact campaign for her film Indictment: The Crimes Of Shelly Chartier and was Director of the Gladue Video Project, a pilot with Osgoode Hall Law School to make video profiles of Indigenous offenders for use in the court system. She is co-author, with NYU Professor Eugenia Kisin, of the chapter “Careful Images: Unsettling Testimony in the Gladue Video Project” for Insiders/Outsiders: The Cultural Politics and Ethics of Representation and Participation in Canada’s Media Arts (ed. Ezra Winton and Dana Claxton), scheduled for release in 2021.
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