WE CALL, 1/2 panel detail, wall-painting, installation, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University Galleries, Vancouver, 2017.
WE CALL, 2/2 panel detail, wall-painting, installation, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University Galleries, Vancouver, 2017.
WE CALL, 1/2 panel detail, wall-painting, installation, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University Galleries, Vancouver, 2017.
WE CALL, 2/2 panel detail, wall-painting, installation, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University Galleries, Vancouver, 2017.
WE CALL, takeaway folder, installation, Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University Galleries, Vancouver, 2017.
WE CALL, installation view, fabric replicas of the wall-text paintings made for the SFU Galleries advisory group meetings, temporary installation, SFU Gallery Burnaby campus, Burnaby, 2017.
WE CALL, installation view, fabric replicas of the wall-text paintings made for the SFU Galleries advisory group meetings, temporary installation, SFU Gallery Burnaby campus, Burnaby, 2017.
WE CALL, advisory group lunch detail, fabric replicas of the wall-text paintings made for the SFU Galleries advisory group meetings, temporary installation, SFU Gallery Burnaby campus, Burnaby, 2017.
WE CALL, installing, fabric replicas of the wall-text paintings made for the SFU Galleries advisory group meetings, temporary installation, SFU Gallery Burnaby campus, Burnaby, 2017.
WE CALL, installation view, fabric wall panel, installation in Sonic Youth, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, 2019.
Taking up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission CALL TO ACTION by Cathy Busby, artist project in C Magazine issue 128, pg. 26, C The Visual Arts Foundation, Toronto, Winter 2016.
Taking up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission CALL TO ACTION by Cathy Busby, artist project in C Magazine issue 128, pg. 27, C The Visual Arts Foundation, Toronto, Winter 2016.
We Call SFU (2017)
WE CALL is a multi-iteration wall-text work focusing on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's (TRC) 94 Calls to Action, released in June 2015.
For this site-specific version, installed at Simon Fraser University's Teck Gallery (2017-2018), I selected and edited the calls that are directed towards government agencies responsible for education, post-secondary institutions and cultural organizations. The wall-texts are abridged versions of these calls, specifically numbers 7, 8, 10, 11, 16, 57, 62, 63, 83, and 86, which are printed in full in the "WE CALL" folder. For a full project description of this work, the programming, and its subsequent iterations see my article "WE CALL summary."
WE CALL was funded by BC Arts Council and the Canada Council. A parallel installation was produced in collaboration with the Gitksan Wet'suwet'en Education Society in Hazelton, BC, and a re-articulation of this work was made at Upper Canada College in Toronto in 2018.
To learn more about the TRC, see Honouring the Truth: Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and the TRC's 94 Calls to Action. You can find more about how SFU is responding to the TRC's Calls to Action here.