http://courtneychetwynd.com/earlier-work daily 0.75 2015-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1424708837434-MZT90WNKEJQELCYFNWVG/225131_7958485229_2075_n.jpg Earlier Work - Close[d] close[d] was installed within a hidden false wall/storage closet within the gallery. The space was positioned to barely permit entrance of the body, and confronted the viewer with the desicion to enter or remain at a distance. As a clandestine space, away from plain sight, some didn’t even see the piece and walked out of the gallery. It was only after further exploration the space was apparent.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1424910997472-CR6O7JGBRL7XN2CQ43X0/224356_7958495229_2617_n.jpg Earlier Work - .(passage). .(passage). included two concealed sites of sound positioned across the gallery from each other, mimicking the position of how two women would sing, resonating the sound from each other's mouth. One location of sound emanated traditional Inuit throat songs, and the other, contemporary throat singing. This was accompanied by an edited video of my larynx in motion, which was projected onto a sheath of sausage casing and transgressing onto the wall. Additionally, it included a sculptural element recalling a tin can telephone child’s game, which was mounted in the wall.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1424708961807-XR6M8MNWAF4OQL38K667/15cc2007presentsfrom.jpg Earlier Work - .presents from the invisible. Traces become the margin, the threshold without a context of past, or future. Exploring what occurs when the body is absent, this installation spanned two rooms, one room contained a reclaimed mattress embedded with cast resin and salt clusters, porcelain forms, and vaseline pockets; the other space, an absent dust mattress.       http://courtneychetwynd.com/blog daily 0.75 2015-05-20 http://courtneychetwynd.com/blog/2015/5/19/a-focus-on-connection monthly 0.5 2015-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1432058841745-P0XQQKZ33DNPNQPAKZ5N/IMG_5498.JPG Blog - knowing more then we can tell. http://courtneychetwynd.com/blog/utteringnordicity monthly 0.5 2015-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1427300913799-QGQ5D9NTQB6K0CGNQO0L/IMG_4023.JPG Blog - talking back (uttering nordicity) http://courtneychetwynd.com/blog/2015/03/02/london monthly 0.5 2015-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1425432742012-O0US3LTGHEXKS00OD5OG/london.jpg Blog - London Exhibition! http://courtneychetwynd.com/blog/2015/03/02/fortheland monthly 0.5 2015-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1425347479141-R99TQYB625S33BCGVVQY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - For the land http://courtneychetwynd.com/projects daily 1.0 2015-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1425437176802-XZPMUQ7PMKJET2BXYYNK/DSCF2467.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1426882577483-JM2IRDOROKYC9OUMXQ78/IMG_7452.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1424383510634-03XEUSD2I8S9FCOVBV69/DSC_0142.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1424384762651-ZS90QORXNWHGJ73613K3/IMG_6564.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1424385428112-EDDM40DN43JENS7MCYMN/SplittingTheDifference-34.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1424386121423-2U9DUGYS2UV7F3EUEF1Z/IMG_3728.jpg Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54e6556de4b003ce1bc6579c/1424801242977-P9I039D4XXMSOC4H436W/IMG_1033.JPG Projects - Quallunaat Exploring the transitional nature of identity thorough revisiting my past artifacts, this project fuses representation and scribbled writings—learning Inuktitut and writing syllabics as a child, originating from and being raised in the North, although with settler immigrant familial origins, or as the Government of the Northwest Territories classifies me: “Indigenous Non-Aboriginal”. I am confronted with the question of what it means to be from, but not of a place. Occupying this hybrid space, my work explores translation, not inside, not outside, but a simultaneously part of both positions at once. The system of syllabics functions by breaking down individual syllables of a word and represents them as symbols. Many are actually not aware that this system of written language was created by European clergy, although has been so widely adopted by the Inuit since its ‘introduction’ by these Christian missionaries. Adapted by John Horden and E.A. Watkins, in the 1850s, from James Evan’s Cree orthography as a way to transcribe religious text into Inuktitut for consumption and colonization. Many people now regard this invention by white missionaries, as their own and they have resisted attempts to have it replaced by Roman orthography.   [1] Kenn Harper. Innovation and Inspiration--The Development of Inuktitut Syllabic Orthography. 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