Supplement 7 Joar Nango: Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack

From The Goldfarb Gallery website
Supplement 7: Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack traces Joar Nango’s artistic process, mapping the development of his temporary installation and sculpture Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack, 2019. The publication features an interview between Nango and Indigenous architect David Thomas about an abandoned military barracks’ transformation into Canada’s largest urban reserve. It also includes a short essay by Indigenous architect Ryan Gorrie in which he examines Circle of Life Thunderbird House in Winnipeg, designed by renowned Indigenous architect Douglas Cardinal. These texts are paired with critical writings by architecture lecturer Timothy O’Rourke and architecture scholar Courtney R. Thompson, who detail accounts of governmental suppression of Indigenous architectural and artistic ingenuity in both Australia and Canada. These writing are interwoven by text by Jenifer Papararo, curator of Uncle Doug’s Fishing Shack, reflecting on Nango’s research process and the conversations that ignited, developed, and epitomized the nature of this collaborative and improvisational site-specific installation.

This publication was launched at the Venice Architecture Biennale as part of Girjegumpi, Nango’s ongoing library project for which he has been assembling an archive of books about issues relevant to Indigenous architecture for over fifteen years.

Editor
Jenifer Papararo

Publisher
The Goldfarb Gallery (formerly AGYU )
Plug In ICA
Fillip

Publication Date
2023

Binding
Staple-bound, softcover with colour illustrations

Size
8.25 x 11 inches
16 pages

ISBN
978-0-972354-40-7