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Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Modest Livelihood, 2012, color film in Super 16 mm transferred to Blu-ray, 50 minutes. This new work from Canadian artist Brian Jungen and recent MFA recipient Duane Linklater  builds up a slow narrative of “life on the land.” Without any dialogue or sound, it proves to throw quite a few punches at the meta-narrative of Western North America; who discovered what and where? The film’s pace and imagery begin to unravel a life lived to the margins—one entirely modest. Devoid of overarching masculine tropes and Eurocentric racialization of aboriginal peoples, the film becomes much more about aboriginal labor (production). A short article at Artforum provides a few facts missing from the Globe and Mail article linked in the screenshot above—there’s more background on the selection of the film’s title.

Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Modest Livelihood, 2012, color film in Super 16 mm transferred to Blu-ray, 50 minutes.

This new work from Canadian artist Brian Jungen and recent MFA recipient Duane Linklater  builds up a slow narrative of “life on the land.” Without any dialogue or sound, it proves to throw quite a few punches at the meta-narrative of Western North America; who discovered what and where? The film’s pace and imagery begin to unravel a life lived to the margins—one entirely modest. Devoid of overarching masculine tropes and Eurocentric racialization of aboriginal peoples, the film becomes much more about aboriginal labor (production). A short article at Artforum provides a few facts missing from the Globe and Mail article linked in the screenshot above—there’s more background on the selection of the film’s title.

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