WEBVTT 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.980 [Brian Jungen: Printing Two Perspectives] 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:12.959 "City police say they will investigate claims" 00:00:12.959 --> 00:00:17.360 "that they used excessive force in arresting a group of Native demonstrators Sunday" 00:00:17.360 --> 00:00:19.610 "if a formal complaint is received." 00:00:19.610 --> 00:00:23.930 "Amid charges of police violence and halting the protest march, 11..." 00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:28.540 This court case with these young Native folks 00:00:28.540 --> 00:00:32.550 who had been charged with loitering and stuff, 00:00:32.550 --> 00:00:33.790 there's an image of them, 00:00:33.790 --> 00:00:36.000 and they're all, like, having a good time, 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:37.740 and they all look pretty cool. 00:00:37.740 --> 00:00:42.300 And, on the other side, you have this advertisement for all these white people-- 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:44.200 who are models-- 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:49.140 and they're having a little, kind of, soccer thing. 00:00:50.370 --> 00:00:54.990 Features about this kind of situation of Native folks-- 00:00:54.990 --> 00:00:57.830 usually, the kind of down-and-out, 00:00:58.660 --> 00:01:02.040 the slum conditions of living and stuff-- 00:01:02.050 --> 00:01:05.860 and then, on the other side, you have almost the complete opposite. 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:09.500 "Why girls leave home: To get married!" 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:11.440 Like this one, for instance, 00:01:11.440 --> 00:01:15.420 is about these young Native gals learning how to live in the city-- 00:01:15.420 --> 00:01:19.420 and learning how to save money and cook for a family-- 00:01:19.430 --> 00:01:23.159 and really sexist, stereotypical things, 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:25.699 and the other side is an ad for a cooked ham! 00:01:25.700 --> 00:01:26.780 [LAUGHS] 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:29.940 So I just took pictures of them with my phone. 00:01:29.940 --> 00:01:33.300 I decided to work on this print edition with them. 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:39.360 [JUNGEN] There's one with a ham on the other side. 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:40.640 Did I give you that one? 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:41.300 [MAN] No. 00:01:41.300 --> 00:01:42.140 [JUNGEN] Okay. 00:01:44.119 --> 00:01:45.119 Huh. 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:46.820 [MAN] Now you're a printmaker. 00:01:46.820 --> 00:01:48.360 [BOTH LAUGH] 00:01:48.660 --> 00:01:49.960 [JUNGEN] I'll put you out of work. 00:01:49.960 --> 00:01:56.920 It was interesting seeing the media's portrayal of the local Native population. 00:01:58.140 --> 00:01:59.700 It was always about inequality, 00:01:59.700 --> 00:02:03.190 but it wasn't really from the Native person's perspective. 00:02:03.190 --> 00:02:04.840 In the Seventies, things kind of changed, 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.680 and they kind of started to report more positive things. 00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:15.100 I was doing research for this public art project in Calgary 00:02:15.110 --> 00:02:17.670 and I went to the museum and I asked them if they could 00:02:17.670 --> 00:02:21.540 gather history of the local First Nations community. 00:02:21.540 --> 00:02:23.989 And they had a clippings file. 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.300 Those broad sheet newspapers were huge! 00:02:27.780 --> 00:02:31.239 It was like they were folding a bedsheet, but it was a newspaper! 00:02:31.239 --> 00:02:32.239 [LAUGHS] 00:02:32.239 --> 00:02:35.839 How hard would it be to print on the other side of the paper? 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:36.840 Pretty hard? 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:38.620 [MAN] No, we just have to figure out how. 00:02:38.620 --> 00:02:39.880 [BOTH LAUGH] 00:02:45.420 --> 00:02:49.020 These are the stories I would have read as a kid. 00:02:49.740 --> 00:02:53.460 They would've made me feel really bad about being Native. 00:02:56.820 --> 00:03:00.760 And I think that's the case with a lot of folks. 00:03:02.380 --> 00:03:05.599 In mass media, you're always portrayed in either 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.119 a sympathetic or a very negative way. 00:03:16.580 --> 00:03:17.760 [JUNGEN] Wow! 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:18.900 [WOMAN] That's great! 00:03:18.900 --> 00:03:20.040 Look at that! 00:03:22.260 --> 00:03:23.739 [JUNGEN] So that's without the printing? 00:03:23.739 --> 00:03:25.390 [MAN] That's just the background, yeah. 00:03:25.390 --> 00:03:26.850 Because we separated that out. 00:03:26.850 --> 00:03:28.300 Actually, it's a shadow. 00:03:28.300 --> 00:03:29.300 [JUNGEN] The shadow! [LAUGHS] 00:03:29.300 --> 00:03:30.100 [MAN] The folds and everything. 00:03:30.100 --> 00:03:31.100 [JUNGEN] Oh, okay. 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:36.000 Looks great! 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:36.680 [MAN] Looks cool, eh? 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:37.180 [JUNGEN] Yeah. 00:03:37.180 --> 00:03:38.180 [MAN] I like it floating in the middle of nowhere. 00:03:39.160 --> 00:03:40.900 We just have to hit it with a rag to clean the edges off. 00:03:40.909 --> 00:03:41.909 [JUNGEN] Yeah. 00:03:42.900 --> 00:03:45.540 [MAN] And even the text lines up with the crease. 00:03:45.540 --> 00:03:46.620 [JUNGEN] Yeah. 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:49.200 Can I handle it? 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:50.540 [MAN] Yeah, it's yours! 00:03:50.540 --> 00:03:51.549 [JUNGEN LAUGHS] 00:03:52.239 --> 00:03:55.190 [JUNGEN] In the Arctic, there's a lot of Inuit artists 00:03:55.190 --> 00:03:58.190 who've done a lot of beautiful printmaking. 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:04.080 And I got interested in printmaking largely out of that Inuit art tradition. 00:04:04.500 --> 00:04:08.360 One thing I always liked about the imagery that you see 00:04:08.370 --> 00:04:10.380 in the cultures on the coast 00:04:10.380 --> 00:04:12.920 is this bilateral symmetry-- 00:04:14.220 --> 00:04:18.440 trying to portray both sides of something on a flat surface. 00:04:20.280 --> 00:04:23.280 There's something that you would have a physical relationship to. 00:04:23.289 --> 00:04:26.590 Like, you wouldn't just frame these newspaper clippings 00:04:26.590 --> 00:04:28.110 and stick it on the wall. 00:04:28.110 --> 00:04:29.440 That's not how it works. 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:31.800 It's something that you actually have to turn over.