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Mike Nicholl [Yahgulanaas]: “Meddling in the Museum”

The records in this sub-series relate to the artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and the site-specific exhibition Meddling in the Museum which took place at MOA in 2007. Records include research notes, articles, correspondences, grant funding applications, graphic images and photographs, event transcripts, contracts and exhibition development materials.

Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy

The sub-series contains materials relating to the exhibit Multiplicity: A New Cultural Strategy, for which Duffek was the exhibition coordinator and Robert Houle was the guest curator. The exhibition took place from December 1993 through May of 1994. The exhibition featured works by contemporary First Nations artists who question the concept of the “other.” Records consist of articles, exhibit text and labels, internal reports, correspondences, artist biographies, and a report based on visitor interviews.

Nicholas Galanin: “Raven and the First Immigrant”

This sub-series contains records relating to the display at MOA of Nicholas Galanin’s work, “Raven and the First Immigrant.” The sculpture was displayed on the patio outside the Bill Reid Rotunda, in view of Reid’s carving, “Raven and the First Men.” “Raven and the First Immigrant” was displayed at MOA from March 12 until December 31, 2010. The sub-series include correspondence, images of the installation, loan agreements, and draft promotional materials.

Research Project series

This series consists of records collected for a research project, which involved documenting the Northwest Coast objects within German museums. In June of 1989 Duffek went to Berlin to photograph a portion of the collection of Northwest Coast artifacts collected by Johan Adrian Jacobsen from 1881-1883. This collection is predominantly at Berlins Museum Für Völkeskunde (now called the Ethnologiesches Museum Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussischer Kulturbesitz). On this trip, she also visited the Hamburg Museum fur Volkerkund, Museum fur Nolkerkunde in Lubeck, the Nationalmuseet in Kopenhagan, and the Statens Ethnografiska Museum in Stockholm. Marjorie Halpin got a UBC research grant and hired Duffek as a research assistant although Duffek initiated the project itself. The series consists of notes, slides, contact sheets and negatives for the project.

Robert Davidson: “The Abstract Edge”

The records in this sub-series relate to the development and implementation of the Robert Davidson exhibition The Abstract Edge at MOA. The Abstract Edge opened at the Museum of Anthropology on June 22nd, 2004 through January 30th 2005. The Abstract Edge then went on a cross-Canadian tour from 2005-2007, which was sponsored by the National Gallery of Canada.

Files consist of exhibition planning notes, research, reporting, grant applications, contracts, correspondences, event planning, articles and publications, and transcripts. Additionally, some files in the series also relate to the publication for the exhibition which Duffek wrote in conjunction with Robert Houle. Most of the photographic transparencies were taken for publication images. Other files relate to Robert Davidson in general, such as transcripts of interviews, public lectures, and past exhibitions.

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