Rebecca Belmore is a Vancouver -based, Canadian performance artists. In 1991, 1992, and 1996 Belmore traveled across canada with her community based artwork "Ayem-ee-aawach Ooma-mowan: Speaking to the Mother". She created this work in response to the early 1990's "Oka Crisis", when Mohawk people protested to maintain their territory in Kanesatake. "Speaking to Their Mother" invited members of the First Nations community to speak directly to the land through a giant megaphone.
I responded to this work because it gives the members of community an opportunity to speak their voices while encouraging the alternation of leadership. Belmore is concerned with expressing "protest through poetic action". She is recognized both nationally and internationally as a performance, sculpture/installation and new media artists interested in history, place and identity. Since the late 1980's Belmore has produced a large body of work exploring such issues. In 2005 Belmore represented Canada at the Venice Biennale with her video installation "Fountain".
I responded to this work because it gives the members of community an opportunity to speak their voices while encouraging the alternation of leadership. Belmore is concerned with expressing "protest through poetic action". She is recognized both nationally and internationally as a performance, sculpture/installation and new media artists interested in history, place and identity. Since the late 1980's Belmore has produced a large body of work exploring such issues. In 2005 Belmore represented Canada at the Venice Biennale with her video installation "Fountain". http://www.rebeccabelmore.com/home.html
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