{"id":216,"date":"2015-09-17T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T22:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.wordpress.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T19:12:41","slug":"rebecca-belmore-ayum-ee-aawach-oomama-mowan-speaking-to-their-mother-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/2015\/09\/17\/rebecca-belmore-ayum-ee-aawach-oomama-mowan-speaking-to-their-mother-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Belmore -Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This work was developed in response to the 1990 \u201cOka Crisis,\u201d or Kanien\u2019kehaka resistance, when the Canadian army violently suppressed a small Mohawk Nation trying to defend its ceremonial and burial grounds from becoming a golf course. It was first used in 1991 in a meadow in Banff National Park where people\u2019s voices, spoken through the megaphone, would echo back nine times. In 1992, Belmore toured the work across Canada to a number of sites where Indigenous land claims were being asserted and justice was being demanded.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short video that features some of her work, Speaking to Their Mother can be seen at 2:13:\u00a0<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1z9YP3cPqJ4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.jmbgallery.ca\/eventsKWE.html<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/kwe_performance.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"217\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/kwe_performance\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/09\/kwe_performance.jpg?fit=550%2C365&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,365\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KWE_Performance\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/09\/kwe_performance.jpg?fit=550%2C365&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-217\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/experimentalstudio.ca\/sart-4660-f15\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/09\/kwe_performance-1.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"KWE_Performance\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/belmore.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/belmore\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/09\/belmore.png?fit=597%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"597,424\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"belmore\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/09\/belmore.png?fit=597%2C424&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-218\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/experimentalstudio.ca\/sart-4660-f15\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/09\/belmore-1.png?resize=300%2C213\" alt=\"belmore\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This work was developed in response to the 1990 \u201cOka Crisis,\u201d or Kanien\u2019kehaka resistance, when the Canadian army violently suppressed a small Mohawk Nation trying to defend its ceremonial and burial grounds from becoming a golf course. It was first used in 1991 in a meadow in Banff National Park where people\u2019s voices, spoken through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/09\/belmore-1.png?fit=300%2C213&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7CROG-3u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}