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Granger and Weissman’s piece discusses a video/performance/sewn art piece comprising a variety of documents. The performance took place at the Vancouver Art Gallery, previously the provincial courthouse. While the steps of the gallery are a popular site of public protest and performance, access to the interior gallery is guarded—historically, as an exercise of colonial hegemony and currently, by the general exclusion of ethnic, sexual, and/or social minorities. The essay stitches together the fabric of indigenous struggles worldwide and the utopian impulse that motivates them; it is an ironic substitution of the smallpox-ridden colonizer’s gift and a questioning of the historical claiming of land and the elimination of the right of certain bodies to occupy that land.
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Granger, A., Weissman, A. (2017). Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish. In: Beauchesne, K., Santos, A. (eds) Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56873-1_6
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