In this story, Heather McLean reflects on the race, class and gender dimensions and settler colonial politics of corporatised university research. She also satirises the commodification of self care and new age practices. She is deeply thankful to the land defenders protecting the waters in the unceded traditional lands of Secwepemcúl’ecw where she lives and works.
Credits
Created during grunt gallery’s 2020 Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen Digital Storytelling workshops. grunt gallery was founded in 1984 in Vancouver, BC with the vision to become an internationally renowned artist-run centre and further the practice of contemporary art. Through the exploration of our diverse Canadian cultural identity, we are able to offer public programming in the form of exhibitions, performances, artist talks, publications, and other special projects in the community. Our mandate is to inspire public dialogue by creating an environment conducive to the emergence of innovative, collaborative, and provocative contemporary art.
We gratefully acknowledge that we live and work on the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.
