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Mi’kmaw territory. Inscriptions and traces point in a layered and fragmentary fashion to not only the social, political and cultural elisions that have occurred (and continue to occur) but also to recurring normative (often Statist) narratives of belonging and membership that are subtended by various forms of claim-making and ‘ownership’ (of land). Ć,SE LÁ,E SEN E TŦE Jim ŚW̱,ELO₭E. NETWORKS AND POPULISMS / DIVISIONS AND STITCHES – A VIEW FROM EUROPE. Walking with Carol Maurer, February 2018, Dorchester County, Maryland. With family ties in WSÁNEĆ and Songhees nations, Beangka incorporates cultural knowledge to her work with native plants.

→. Following the initial posting of copies to residents on the island, a one-day pop-up research workshop was hosted by Emily Artinian (Street Road) and me.

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cloudedtitle@streetroad.org / emily@streetroad.org / fdplessner@shaw.ca. The term ‘clouded title’ is used in real estate law and practice to indicate a situation in which title to a plot, parcel, or object is not free and clear for one reason or another.

Sign up or learn more on our website. This approach opens the possibility of understanding ownership as a kind of narrativity, even a set of fictionalities, written and re-written, and read and re-read in radically different ways over time. Different landholding models, particularly those emphasizing social and ecological relationships over private possession (or any possession), are explored. Propagating Perennial Fruit Bearing Plants, Greater Victoria Compost Education Centre, Victoria, Exploring the Green World - Victoria Herb Walk, Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary, Victoria, November - Indigenous Awareness Intensive - Allyship Practice.

We also co-chaired a panel discussion with Mavis Underwood (Member of Council, Tsawout First Nation) and Elder Earl Claxton Jr. (Tsawout First Nation), David Boyd (Law professor and Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and the Environment for the United Nations) and Robert Clifford (Legal Scholar specializing in Indigenous Law, Tsawout First Nation). It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Subsequent to the walk, the group held several online discussion sessions with Clouded Title, developed individual blog entries around the walk and readings, and also published a print publication: Ownership by Walking: traversing the ruins (2017) with contributions from Anne Caldwell, Lin Charlston, Sara Davies, Claire Dean, Mark Dyer, Sarah Hymas, Ellen Jeffrey, and Gemma Meek.

She has been teaching cultural/ethnobotanical classes to a wide range of groups, from youth as young as five to adults in post secondary education. A reference text in widespread use in the real estate industry in the U.S. for decades, this capital-centric source omits most concepts related to collective ownership in any form, steers well clear of land appropriation, current and historic, and is resolutely anthropocentric and deaf to ecological concerns. Events are social. There is much public pride, display and celebration amongst, for example, Scots and English settlers of their own (family) history of the island and the performance of Anglo-Canadian nationalist sentiments that are then mirrored in the image of the Province and the State. Things to do in Victoria, Canada

We are especially interested in walking being explored by artists as a mode of claim making. With Clouded Title, the group developed a one-day workshop, centered on a walk around Gorton Monastery and its environs, on the eastern side of Manchester. Artinian and Plessner accompanied Maurer on the first stage of her walk from her ancestral family estate on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Street Road’s premises in Chester County, PA (the walk took place in stages over several months in 2018). ICEVIEW MAGAZINE - On Solitude and Artmaking: A Conversation with Gudrun Filipska of The Arts Territory Exchange.

A collective process: the potentially infinite, Borgesian undertaking of rewriting a dictionary is yes, mad. Your email will only be seen by the event organizer.

where identity, entitlement and relations to land pivot on a conception of land as a capital ‘resource’ braided together with idealizations of private property as a “rural idyll” (building of ‘Dream homes’, outdoor recreational activities etc.). This ‘deterritorialized’ event was in dialogue with Street Road, not as a quasi ‘educational outreach’ program, but as a means of extending the conversation and interrogation of ‘ownership’, with the aim of examining local (Pender Island) claims and understandings of place. The estate is now markedly desolate and riddled with dying pine trees, hemmed in by oily, littered, shorelines within a larger, exhausted landscape surrounded by a dead sea.

It contrasted this Statist narrative of the Treaty with W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation tellings of their own history of its making – a history that sharply conflicts with State and settler beliefs, as will be discussed further below. This was followed by a formal launch, pop-up exhibition and research workshop with Street Road that took place in the local community hall on the island (April 14, 2018). Her family history and the terrain are entwined in a complex mix of the historical and political violence of enslavement and exploitation of African-American bodies and the family’s direct involvement in the State’s management of slaves as a primary ‘industry’ of the capitalist economy. Through W̱SÁNEĆ eyes we see that the Treaty is in fact a means for framing and navigating complex relationships with settlers, not a ‘contract’ for the purported ‘sale’ of land.

To critique the distortions within the fiction of land ‘ownership’, the newspaper foregrounded W̱SÁNEĆ writers and other Indigenous scholars who instead describe the Treaty as a ‘Peace’ Treaty: a history and interpretation that exposes how and why the Treaty, as a troubled document, continues to disenfranchise the W̱SÁNEĆ people. Citizen Artist News: Clouded Title therefore invited readers to think through the false logic and claims to the possession of W̱SÁNEĆ lands. Ice Culture : Interview with Willona Sloan.

that continue to suppress W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation presence and systems of governance within their territory. The project’s subtitle plays on the pervasive use and understanding of the word improvements in the field – as the dictionary editors have it: “those additions to RAW LAND, such as buildings, streets, sewers, etc., tending to increase value.” The tacit and a priori understanding of land as an object for possession, extraction, and use, and of value in a blatantly reductive sense, is entrenched in the field, and the definitions throughout bear this out. my browser now.

The book will eventually be re-bound and the new edition will be sent to the publisher and editors, potentially in successive editions. — Acknowledgement provided by Of fice of Aboriginal Affairs, To give some context: currently, Pender Island is designated as a ‘rural’ community, but it is in fact a highly populated ‘suburban’ community. However, it is also something of a riddle, with grassroots organizations (historical societies) that are proactively engaged in continuing the inscription of the island as a narrative of British-Canadian colonial habitation and virtue. To learn more about how cookies are used, please visit our, Touring, Promotions/Marketing and Performance Initiatives, Indigenous Cultural Heritage Infrastructure Grant. British Columbia Events This initial stage of the walk retraced the roads and pathways that both Maurer’s ancestors and slaves would have traversed.

For the past 8 years it has hosted projects that relate directly to and challenge the problematic, capital-driven activity which produced its possibility. Begun in 2017, the project is led by Daphne Plessner and Emily Artinian. The newspaper and the workshop together therefore drew attention to the ongoing epistemic violence of colonial narratives within this local community.

First is a focus on simple, direct and embodied acts of inhabiting space as a form of ownership – considering ‘possession’ through a phenomenological lens.

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Street Road is an art space in Pennsylvania created in 2011 by Emily Artinian as an evolution of – and with resources inherited from – a family real estate business.

Find event and ticket information. Citizen Artist News is a series of (three) art interventions in the form of broadsheet newspapers (2018 - 2020). The fact that Pender Island is within W̱SÁNEĆ territory is simply not visible within the region, nor is it acknowledged within local systems of government (e.g., Island residents do not pay land taxes to the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation – as we should – but only to the colonial government; land is sold or ‘developed’ within their territory regardless of the concerns of the W̱SÁNEĆ people etc.). Mark Dyer, for instance, explores sound as claim making in the essay ‘Hearing the ruin: ownership through sound’, wondering: ”In such a space [Gorton monastery], I could shout out.

An insertion: ‘Chthulucene’, with reference to other Real Estate Dictionary entries such as ‘Effective age’.

Compost Education Centre memberships get you free workshops, discounts at garden centres around town and more great perks! The results of this (personal, political and economic) history are inscribed in the terrain but are also ironically rebuked by the current environmental degradation of the land. The fact of this privileging of British ethnic histories and claims to possession of land and belonging (with a focus on historically storied virtuous farming families), continues to obfuscate the reality of not only living on appropriated W̱SÁNEĆ lands but also aggressively flattens the complexity of other ethnic histories and peoples that have resided within this space from the 1870s to the present day. Beangka has a keen interest in using native plants as food and medicine and practices this in daily life. Log in or sign up for Eventbrite to save events you're interested in. A significant Clouded Title convening was a workshop in which these last two were in dialogue around colonial notions of treatied and unceded lands versus Indigenous peoples’ relations to land as a non-human being. Ownership by Walking: Traversing the Ruins, detail. These interventions are targeted at a small local settler community of Pender Island, located on the South-West tip of British Columbia, Canada. Part of the motivation for developing the art intervention within this small community therefore is to think through the aesthetic experience of this troubled reality and examine how it manifests within resident’s larger claims to belonging and membership of the Canadian State. In addition to taking up the term ‘clouded title’ as a lens for understanding ownership of land or property, this can also be understood as a methodology for our process. These cookies do not store any personal information. Victoria Classes Pender Island is also primarily a retired, middle class, community with a (now) majority of residents of British ancestry. 1000 copies of the newspaper were distributed to the homes of local island residents of Pender in April, 2018. …. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent.