Julie Nagam
Julie Nagam is a PhD Student in Social and Political Thought at York University and began working as a Research Associate for the Visible City Project + Archive in May 2007. The proposed research will use oral histories and archeological artifacts to create a consciousness that entails constructing a critical cartography of the land, and at the same time raises questions of colonialism, capitalism, ownership, geography and community. The aim of this research is to examine the complications that Indigenous perspectives bring to an understanding of how urban spaces are constructed and to weave together these embedded layers through the use of post-colonial theory.
Julie completed a Master of Arts in Native Studies and a four year Bachelor of Arts Advanced with a major in Women’s Studies and minors in Native Studies and Art History at the University of Manitoba. She also participated in an exchange program with full scholarship at the University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts. Julie has conducted research on Inuit artists in Pangnirtung, Nunavut; on rural and northern women artists in Manitoba for Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art; on women’s issues for the YWCA of Thompson; on equity employment for Thompson Multi Cultural Center and women’s issues for the Icelandic Center for Feminist Research. Recently she was a board member of Thompson Arts Council, Thompson Crisis Center and a member of Manitoba Arts Council Arts Advisory Panel. Currently she is a collective member of Canadian Dimension, 2004, and LOT, 2007. Her art practices include mentorship in Pangnirtung, Nunavut and Bali, Indonesia, collective performances in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, individual installations in Reykjavik, Iceland and Winnipeg, Manitoba.