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[Brian Jungen: Printing Two Perspectives]

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"City police say they will investigate claims"

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"that they used excessive force in arresting[br]a group of Native demonstrators Sunday"

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"if a formal complaint is received."

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"Amid charges of police violence[br]and halting the protest march, 11..."

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This court case with these young Native folks

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who had been charged with loitering and stuff,

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there's an image of them,

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and they're all, like, having a good time,

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and they all look pretty cool.

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And, on the other side, you have this[br]advertisement for all these white people--

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who are models--

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and they're having a little, kind of,[br]soccer thing.

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Features about this kind of situation[br]of Native folks--

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usually, the kind of down-and-out,

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the slum conditions of living and stuff--

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and then, on the other side,[br]you have almost the complete opposite.

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"Why girls leave home: To get married!"

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Like this one, for instance,

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is about these young Native gals[br]learning how to live in the city--

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and learning how to save money and[br]cook for a family--

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and really sexist, stereotypical things,

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and the other side is an ad for a cooked ham!

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[LAUGHS]

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So I just took pictures of them with my phone.

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I decided to work on this print edition[br]with them.

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[JUNGEN] There's one with a ham[br]on the other side.

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Did I give you that one?

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[MAN] No.

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[JUNGEN] Okay.

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Huh.

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[MAN] Now you're a printmaker.

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[BOTH LAUGH]

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[JUNGEN] I'll put you out of work.

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It was interesting seeing the media's portrayal[br]of the local Native population.

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It was always about inequality,

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but it wasn't really from the[br]Native person's perspective.

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In the Seventies, things kind of changed,

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and they kind of started to report[br]more positive things.

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I was doing research for this public art project[br]in Calgary

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and I went to the museum and I asked them[br]if they could

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gather history of the local[br]First Nations community.

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And they had a clippings file.

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Those broad sheet newspapers were huge!

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It was like they were folding a bedsheet,[br]but it was a newspaper!

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[LAUGHS]

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How hard would it be to print[br]on the other side of the paper?

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Pretty hard?

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[MAN] No, we just have to figure out how.

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[BOTH LAUGH]

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These are the stories I would have[br]read as a kid.

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They would've made me feel really bad[br]about being Native.

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And I think that's the case with[br]a lot of folks.

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In mass media, you're always portrayed[br]in either

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a sympathetic or a very negative way.

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[JUNGEN] Wow!

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[WOMAN] That's great!

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Look at that!

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[JUNGEN] So that's without the printing?

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[MAN] That's just the background, yeah.

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Because we separated that out.

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Actually, it's a shadow.

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[JUNGEN] The shadow![br][LAUGHS]

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[MAN] The folds and everything.

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[JUNGEN] Oh, okay.

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Looks great!

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[MAN] Looks cool, eh?

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[JUNGEN] Yeah.

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[MAN] I like it floating in the[br]middle of nowhere.

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We just have to hit it with a rag[br]to clean the edges off.

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[JUNGEN] Yeah.

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[MAN] And even the text lines up with[br]the crease.

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[JUNGEN] Yeah.

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Can I handle it?

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[MAN] Yeah, it's yours!

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[JUNGEN LAUGHS]

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[JUNGEN] In the Arctic,[br]there's a lot of Inuit artists

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who've done a lot of beautiful printmaking.

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And I got interested in printmaking[br]largely out of that Inuit art tradition.

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One thing I always liked about the imagery[br]that you see

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in the cultures on the coast

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is this bilateral symmetry--

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trying to portray both sides of something[br]on a flat surface.

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There's something that you would have a physical[br]relationship to.

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Like, you wouldn't just frame[br]these newspaper clippings

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and stick it on the wall.

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That's not how it works.

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It's something that you actually[br]have to turn over.