Harriet Nahanee (left) by Cathy Busby and winter game by Edgar Heap of Birds (right), exterior window view, text based installation, VIVO Media Arts Center, Vancouver, 2010.
Harriet Nahanee (left) by Cathy Busby and winter game by Edgar Heap of Birds (right), exterior window view, text based installation, VIVO Media Arts Center, Vancouver, 2010.
Harriet Nahanee, vinyl lettering detail (132cm x 112cm), text based installation, VIVO Media Arts Center, Vancouver, 2010.
Harriet Nahanee (left) by Cathy Busby and winter game by Edgar Heap of Birds (right), exterior window view, text based installation, VIVO Media Arts Center, Vancouver, 2010.
Harriet Nahanee, maquette for vinyl lettering on window, text based installation, VIVO Media Arts Center, Vancouver, 2010.
Harriet Nahanee (2010)
Harriet Nahanee was part of Safe Façade, a group show with Edgar Heap of Birds and Tania Willard curated by Emilio Rojas (VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, 2010). Safe Façade was the window project of the larger event, Safe Assembly, a critical response to the 2010 Olympic Games.
Harriet Nahanee was a temporary memorial providing a little-known backstory to this First Nations elder and activist who protested the Sea-to-Sky highway expansion for the Olympics. Nahanee was jailed for not apologizing for her actions and died of pneumonia shortly after release.