Last week I attended the opening night for Vancouver’s MASH UP at the Vancouver Art Gallery. This art collective was the perfect analogy for embedding the First Peoples Principles of Learning into BC’s New Curriculum. Below is an example of how we can ‘mashup’ modern day artists, Aboriginal art, and PYP.

Looking through an IB lens:

How We Express Ourselves 

Central Idea: Experience and culture can be conveyed through art
Examine various Artists: Prototypes for a
New Understanding
Brian Jungen

‘The central work to Brian Jungen’s series, Prototypes for a New Understanding (1998-2003), Nike Masks (1999) present the artist’s hybridization of brand name sneakers with Northwest Coast Native ceremonial masks. In turn, Jungen’s Nike Masks have become objects of cultural significance and critical metaphors of contemporary consumerism. By crafting a work of art enmeshed with the concrete object, Jungen has forged two separate commodities into a single, synthesized object with a unique symbolism of its own.’

Links:

http://vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_mashup.html VANCOUVER ART GALLERY

https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/principles_of_learning.pdf  BC CURRICULUM

http://cujah.org/past-volumes/volume-i/essay4-volume1/ BRAIN JUNGEN