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The Jackalope in the Room

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2014-04-29

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Green, Megan Anastasia

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University of Waterloo

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The Jackalope in the Room is an installation of sculptural and found objects that have been altered or contextualized in a way that conflates strangeness with normality. Many of the items in the installation were given as gifts or found in thrift stores, and have been modified to communicate a broader cultural or psychological meaning. Often this meaning is related to personal anecdotes and stereotypes attached to the objects that, in turn, seek to complicate popular narratives and cultural myths—many of which relate back to my experiences in northern Alberta. Northern Alberta is a liminal, near-mythical place where our ideas about remote environments collide with mass industrialization. These shibboleths have a pervasive quality that allows me to construct an uncanny web of associations using often banal source materials.

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jackalope Canadiana northern north Alberta Fort McMurray installation art sculpture regionalism

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http://hdl.handle.net/10012/8388

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Fine Arts