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Art
and Cold Cash seeks to discuss/explore contemporary Inuit
art within a context of a politics of interpretation by southern
Canadian cultural workers. It also acknowledges that in the wake
of European nineteenth and twentieth century art history, art
works as commodities occupy troubled ground. As a creative response
to these conditions, on December 14, 2004, Art and Cold Cash collective
members Ruby Arngna'naaq, Jack Butler, Sheila Butler, Patrick
Mahon and William Noah sat down to talk about art and money, in
a conversation that reveals radically different views of notions
of monetary and artistic exchange.
This conversation is recorded in the July 2005 issue of FUSE magazine,
with accompanying photographs of the Art and Cold Cash "Recycling
Art Exhibition", a community event staged in Baker Lake,
Nunavut in May 2005. All members of the community, young people
and adults, working alone or in groups, were invited to use junk
or useless materials to make forms of art that are different from
more familiar art forms and processes - art that is useful or
valuable in a different way, or beautiful or funny in unexpected
ways.
In response to this invitation the "Recycling Art Exhibition"
included fifty-eight works of art produced by artists from age
fourteen to eighty-two, making use of widely diverse materials,
such as styrofoam, sealskin, pop cans, spark plugs, caribou antlers
and bingo daubers. An invited jury awarded cash prizes to seven
successful recycling artists.
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