To Talk With Others
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To Talk With Others is an exhibition and archival document looking back at a little-known chapter in the history of pipeline development in northern Canada.
The information booklet introduces the project as follows:
To Talk With Others responds to the minutes of a meeting in August of 1977 between Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and five Yukon First Nations leaders regarding the then-approved Mackenzie Pipeline. Held in the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in archives, this document illustrates the ongoing dichotomy of two opposing cultures and ways of understanding economic, social and cultural development with the land and its inhabitants. Through a diverse range of media, Yukon artists Ken Anderson (Tlingit/Scandinavian), Lianne Marie Leda Charlie (Tagé Cho Hudän | Big River People), Valerie Salez (1st Generation Canadian), Doug Smarch Jr. (Tlingit), and Joseph Tisiga (Kaska Dene) activate this archival document and ultimately continue the conversation surrounding self-determination in the face of federal and corporate agendas.
Designed by Otami (Sébastien Audin), the website and poster draw from the visual language of the 1970s: a brown and orange palette paired with a typewriter typeface (Compagnon).
Fourteen Os appear throughout the design. Repeated across the different formats, they suggest speaking mouths and drums, and above all, they signify the fourteen First Nations of the Yukon.
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