NAVIGATING POLICE BRUTALITY ON TURTLE ISLAND IN WHERE WERE YOU IN '92? A RESEARCH-BASED CONTEMPORARY ART RESPONSE

Canadian museums have never really been forced to consider how they might address anti-Black violence throughout the history of the nation. Only recently has the inclusion of Black Canadian slavery been acknowledged through post-secondary institutions. https://www.routledge.com/Slavery-Geography-and-Empire-in-Nineteenth-Century-Marine-Landscapes-of/Nelson/p/book/9780367432713

Centering the power of marginalized voices not only challenges the social reproduction of white supremacy, but also takes the spotlight off it. While any number of institutions across the country have made statements or proposed changes in reflection to the ongoing atrocities to the epidemic, little has been done to address the number of deaths by gun violence by motivation of anti-Black racism. However in this particular historical incident, when a young Black man named Raymond Constantine Lawrence was killed on May 2 by two officers of the Peel Regional Police, as well as the simultaneous Rodney King verdict LA uprising; there was a provincial effort to document the qualitative findings from the community at large in a report. In turn the death acted as a catalyst to unearth the root causes of the continual frustration over police mistreatment, discrimination in employment, housing healthcare, and a school system dominated by Eurocentric curriculum and knowledge systems. My video essay mines the archive examining the use and abuse of power and what it means to speak truth to those power systems.