1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,980 [Brian Jungen: Printing Two Perspectives] 2 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,959 "City police say they will investigate claims" 3 00:00:12,959 --> 00:00:17,360 "that they used excessive force in arresting a group of Native demonstrators Sunday" 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,610 "if a formal complaint is received." 5 00:00:19,610 --> 00:00:23,930 "Amid charges of police violence and halting the protest march, 11..." 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,540 This court case with these young Native folks 7 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:32,550 who had been charged with loitering and stuff, 8 00:00:32,550 --> 00:00:33,790 there's an image of them, 9 00:00:33,790 --> 00:00:36,000 and they're all, like, having a good time, 10 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:37,740 and they all look pretty cool. 11 00:00:37,740 --> 00:00:42,300 And, on the other side, you have this advertisement for all these white people-- 12 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:44,200 who are models-- 13 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:49,140 and they're having a little, kind of, soccer thing. 14 00:00:50,370 --> 00:00:54,990 Features about this kind of situation of Native folks-- 15 00:00:54,990 --> 00:00:57,830 usually, the kind of down-and-out, 16 00:00:58,660 --> 00:01:02,040 the slum conditions of living and stuff-- 17 00:01:02,050 --> 00:01:05,860 and then, on the other side, you have almost the complete opposite. 18 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:09,500 "Why girls leave home: To get married!" 19 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,440 Like this one, for instance, 20 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,420 is about these young Native gals learning how to live in the city-- 21 00:01:15,420 --> 00:01:19,420 and learning how to save money and cook for a family-- 22 00:01:19,430 --> 00:01:23,159 and really sexist, stereotypical things, 23 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:25,699 and the other side is an ad for a cooked ham! 24 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:26,780 [LAUGHS] 25 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:29,940 So I just took pictures of them with my phone. 26 00:01:29,940 --> 00:01:33,300 I decided to work on this print edition with them. 27 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:39,360 [JUNGEN] There's one with a ham on the other side. 28 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:40,640 Did I give you that one? 29 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:41,300 [MAN] No. 30 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:42,140 [JUNGEN] Okay. 31 00:01:44,119 --> 00:01:45,119 Huh. 32 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:46,820 [MAN] Now you're a printmaker. 33 00:01:46,820 --> 00:01:48,360 [BOTH LAUGH] 34 00:01:48,660 --> 00:01:49,960 [JUNGEN] I'll put you out of work. 35 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:56,920 It was interesting seeing the media's portrayal of the local Native population. 36 00:01:58,140 --> 00:01:59,700 It was always about inequality, 37 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:03,190 but it wasn't really from the Native person's perspective. 38 00:02:03,190 --> 00:02:04,840 In the Seventies, things kind of changed, 39 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,680 and they kind of started to report more positive things. 40 00:02:11,180 --> 00:02:15,100 I was doing research for this public art project in Calgary 41 00:02:15,110 --> 00:02:17,670 and I went to the museum and I asked them if they could 42 00:02:17,670 --> 00:02:21,540 gather history of the local First Nations community. 43 00:02:21,540 --> 00:02:23,989 And they had a clippings file. 44 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,300 Those broad sheet newspapers were huge! 45 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:31,239 It was like they were folding a bedsheet, but it was a newspaper! 46 00:02:31,239 --> 00:02:32,239 [LAUGHS] 47 00:02:32,239 --> 00:02:35,839 How hard would it be to print on the other side of the paper? 48 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:36,840 Pretty hard? 49 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,620 [MAN] No, we just have to figure out how. 50 00:02:38,620 --> 00:02:39,880 [BOTH LAUGH] 51 00:02:45,420 --> 00:02:49,020 These are the stories I would have read as a kid. 52 00:02:49,740 --> 00:02:53,460 They would've made me feel really bad about being Native. 53 00:02:56,820 --> 00:03:00,760 And I think that's the case with a lot of folks. 54 00:03:02,380 --> 00:03:05,599 In mass media, you're always portrayed in either 55 00:03:05,599 --> 00:03:09,119 a sympathetic or a very negative way. 56 00:03:16,580 --> 00:03:17,760 [JUNGEN] Wow! 57 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:18,900 [WOMAN] That's great! 58 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:20,040 Look at that! 59 00:03:22,260 --> 00:03:23,739 [JUNGEN] So that's without the printing? 60 00:03:23,739 --> 00:03:25,390 [MAN] That's just the background, yeah. 61 00:03:25,390 --> 00:03:26,850 Because we separated that out. 62 00:03:26,850 --> 00:03:28,300 Actually, it's a shadow. 63 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:29,300 [JUNGEN] The shadow! [LAUGHS] 64 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:30,100 [MAN] The folds and everything. 65 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:31,100 [JUNGEN] Oh, okay. 66 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:36,000 Looks great! 67 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:36,680 [MAN] Looks cool, eh? 68 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:37,180 [JUNGEN] Yeah. 69 00:03:37,180 --> 00:03:38,180 [MAN] I like it floating in the middle of nowhere. 70 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:40,900 We just have to hit it with a rag to clean the edges off. 71 00:03:40,909 --> 00:03:41,909 [JUNGEN] Yeah. 72 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:45,540 [MAN] And even the text lines up with the crease. 73 00:03:45,540 --> 00:03:46,620 [JUNGEN] Yeah. 74 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,200 Can I handle it? 75 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,540 [MAN] Yeah, it's yours! 76 00:03:50,540 --> 00:03:51,549 [JUNGEN LAUGHS] 77 00:03:52,239 --> 00:03:55,190 [JUNGEN] In the Arctic, there's a lot of Inuit artists 78 00:03:55,190 --> 00:03:58,190 who've done a lot of beautiful printmaking. 79 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:04,080 And I got interested in printmaking largely out of that Inuit art tradition. 80 00:04:04,500 --> 00:04:08,360 One thing I always liked about the imagery that you see 81 00:04:08,370 --> 00:04:10,380 in the cultures on the coast 82 00:04:10,380 --> 00:04:12,920 is this bilateral symmetry-- 83 00:04:14,220 --> 00:04:18,440 trying to portray both sides of something on a flat surface. 84 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:23,280 There's something that you would have a physical relationship to. 85 00:04:23,289 --> 00:04:26,590 Like, you wouldn't just frame these newspaper clippings 86 00:04:26,590 --> 00:04:28,110 and stick it on the wall. 87 00:04:28,110 --> 00:04:29,440 That's not how it works. 88 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,800 It's something that you actually have to turn over.