{"id":47309,"date":"2016-06-04T21:25:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47309"},"modified":"2016-06-04T21:25:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:25:45","slug":"social-practice-art-challenges-the-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47309","title":{"rendered":"Social-practice art challenges the status quo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social-practice art challenges the status quo<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Winnipeg Free Press<\/a>
\n2016-05-30<\/p>\n

Alison Gillmor<\/a><\/strong>, Writer – Arts and Life<\/p>\n

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\nFrom KC Adams\u2019<\/a> Perception<\/em><\/a> series, 2014-15.<\/small><\/p>\n

Adams’ portraits blend personal, political<\/em><\/p>\n

Even if you don\u2019t regularly visit art galleries, you probably saw some of KC Adams\u2019<\/a> work in the weeks following the notorious Maclean\u2019s<\/em><\/a> magazine article that labelled Winnipeg<\/a> “Canada\u2019s most racist city.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Perception<\/em><\/a>, a photographic series the visual artist started in 2014, was all over the place, challenging stereotypes about indigenous people from bus shelters, billboards, and across social media.<\/p>\n

Using black-and-white photographic diptychs, Adams shot each of her subjects twice. In the first image, the faces are accompanied with ugly words such as “Squaw,” “Victim” and “Government Mooch.” In the second image, the subjects \u2014 usually looking much happier \u2014 offer up their own descriptions of themselves (“golfer,” “homeowner,” “taxpayer,” “father,” “mother,” “sundancer”). The two-part images are straight-up, immediate and effective.<\/p>\n

Adams, who is of Cree<\/a>, Ojibway<\/a>, Scottish, and English descent, was thrilled to see the works on city streets, where average Winnipeggers might view them while waiting for a bus, grabbing some lunch or going to a Jets<\/a> game. “(Perception<\/em>) is not geared toward the art world,” Adams explains. “It\u2019s geared toward the public.”…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social-practice art challenges the status quo The Winnipeg Free Press 2016-05-30 Alison Gillmor, Writer – Arts and Life From KC Adams\u2019 Perception series, 2014-15. Adams’ portraits blend personal, political Even if you don\u2019t regularly visit art galleries, you probably saw some of KC Adams\u2019 work in the weeks following the notorious Maclean\u2019s magazine article that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,19,3015],"tags":[23970,23971,147,23969,23972,9994],"class_list":["post-47309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-canada","category-native-americans","tag-alison-gillmor","tag-kc-adams","tag-photography","tag-the-winnipeg-free-press","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-free-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47310,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47309\/revisions\/47310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}