URSULA JOHNSON - INDIAN TRUCKHOUSE OF HIGH ART
Artist Ursula Johnson describes her practice and her multi media installation and performance, the exhibition the 'Indian Truckhouse of High Art' at Central Art Garage gallery. Ursula Johnson is a multidisciplinary Mi'kmaq artist based in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work combines the Mi'kmaq tradition of basket weaving with sculpture, installation, and performance art.
URSULA JOHNSON MAKES WORK THAT CUTS TO THE HEART OF CULTURAL COMMODIFICATION: CBC ARTS
CBC Arts: In Truckhouse, artist Ursula Johnson is selling the kind of "Indian" knick-knackery that should, by now, make us angry: conveniently-sized dreamcatchers, baskets, beaded necklaces. For Johnson, it is as much about getting rid of these items of cultural commodification as it was about buying them for her participants.