Δ: Joi T. Arcand, George Arlook, Pierre Aupilardjuk, Esaias Beardy, Nick Beardy, Elizabeth Flett, Philip Hakuluk, Jeremiah Harper, Stanley Houle, Peter Inukshuk, Toona Iquliq, Octave Tigumiak Kappi, David Keno, Dwight Keno, Jacob Keno, Nelson Keno, Saunders Keno, Jonas Little, Anthony Manernaluk, Paul McKay, John Pangnark, Yvo Samgushak, Robert Tatty and unidentified artists Winnipeg Art Gallery November 8, 2019 – ongoing
Mar 15, 2020
4 minutes
by Noor Bhangu
he first time I learned about linguistic empathy—the practice of listening to someone else in the absence of a shared language—I was attending Winnipegbased artist Hassaan Ashraf’s presentation at the 2018 Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada, held at the University of Waterloo, and Ashok Mathur was reflecting. Ashraf was sharing his recent body of work, , in which he produced Urdu transliterations of English texts addressing epistemic and systemic violence, in the attempt to illustrate the paradox of experiencing racism in the settler colonial state of Canada, while being complicit in it. From
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