Joar Nango and Ken Are Bongo, Post-Capitalist Architecture TV, 2021 (video still).
Fillip Book Launch and Screening: Supplement 7: Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack
Thursday, June 29 / 6 – 9pm
Audain Gallery (Lobby)
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
Please join us for the Vancouver launch of Supplement 7: Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack, featuring contributions by Joar Nango, David Thomas, Ryan Gorrie, Timothy O’Rourke, Courtney R. Thompson, and Jenifer Papararo.
To celebrate this release, Fillip is pleased to present a selection of screenings from Joar Nango and Ken Are Bongo’s series Post-Capitalist Architecture TV. The episodes will screen in the lobby area of the Audain Gallery at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, and visitors are invited to drop in to browse the publication and view the films at any time during the evening. For a programme of the episodes and their approximate start times, please see below.
Presented in partnership with SFU Galleries.
Supplement 7: Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack traces Joar Nango's artistic process, mapping the development of his temporary installation and sculpture Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack presented at Plug In ICA (Winnipeg) in 2019 as part of STAGES, a biennial offsite public exhibition series. The publication features an interview between Nango and Indigenous architect David Thomas, and texts by Indigenous architect Ryan Gorrie, Australian architecture lecturer Timothy O’Rourke, and Canadian architecture scholar Courtney R. Thompson. This publication is part of Fillip’s Supplements series, with this edition published in collaboration with Plug In ICA (Winnipeg) and the Art Gallery of York University (Toronto). Supplement 7 is edited by Jenifer Papararo.
In Post-Capitalist Architecture TV, artist and architect Joar Nango and filmmaker Ken Are Bongo explore everything from vernacular building techniques to political power structures that form the basis of the built environment in the North. The project is an ongoing study of architecture that operates outside capital and imagines the fall of capitalism. On their journey, Nango and Bongo meet and interview an eclectic group of guests, including academic researchers, craftsmen, lawyers, artists, herders, and activists. Over campfire coffees in their makeshift studio van, both in person and through online conversations projected on a halibut-stomach screen, they discuss the history of the gumpi, the possibility and implausibility of decolonization, land rights, reindeer herding, the meaning of indigenuity, and much more.
Screening Programme:
Part 1: On materiality and resource economy
6:00pm
The first episode of Post-Capitalist Architecture TV looks at the northern philosophy of self-sufficiency and what Nango calls indigenuity: an approach of resource economy and sustainability, working with on-site solutions, as part of Indigenous and Sámi improvisational competences. Nango speaks with curator Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation), art-historian Elin Haugdal (The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø), and artist Elin Már Øyen Vister about material philosophy in Indigenous and local contexts and spatial productions.
Part 3: On decolonization and architecture
6:35pm
Questions raised in this episode include: What are Indigenous people? What is architecture? What is decolonization? Together with art historian Mathias Danbolt of the University of Copenhagen and architect Chris Cornelius, a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and professor at the University of Wisconsin, Nango looks at the representation and visualization of Sámi culture, architecture, and life.
Part 4: On landscape and green-washed capitalism
7:15pm
The audience is introduced into a discussion on Indigenous land rights and the ongoing destruction of reindeer grazing land in the name of so-called green development. We meet herders, philosophers, a law professor, landscape architects, and artists, including Roman Jakovlev, Slincraze, Jon Iver Eira Tellefsen, Ole Henrik Kappfjell, Kjell Derås, Øyvind Ravdna, Kjerstin Uhre, Maja Kristine Jåma, Risten Turi og Reiulf Aleksandersen, Christian Mong, Charlotte Bendiks and Dag O Hessen. The episode was produced as a commissioned work for Tromsø international Film festival.
Part 6: On the ravines
8:20pm
This episode centres on the ravines of Toronto/Tkaronto, a large natural topography that connects the downtown core with the wild greenery north of the city. The ravines are an important part of Toronto‘s identity as a colonial city. Throughout the episode, Nango and Bongo are introduced to important discussions that address property rights, homelessness, and architecture’s colonial heritage on Turtle Island. We meet local and international architects, scholars, activists, writers, and artists, including Adrian Blackwell, Bonnie Devine, Ange Loft, Thomas Holland Eriksen, Lorraine Lam, Thomas Juell Christensen, and Amish Morell. Artistic contributions from Kuzy Curley, Dayna Danger, Fortunato Durutti Marinetti, Ándaris Rimpi, and Archer Pechawis. This episode was co-presented and co-commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art, Evergreen Brick Works, and the Art Gallery of York University.
