Canada's Dry, 2017
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| Canada's Dry, 2017, Digital image. |
Canada’s Dry is a satirical campaign which reappropriates tactics used by the Alt-Right to
indoctrinate Canadians into adopting white nationalist views. The project reconnects the
Othered Body to “Canadian Values” by documenting my lived biracial experience in Hamilton’s
suburbs. Canada’s Dry displays the suburbs as an idealized utopia where “Canadian Values”
are exemplified. The current connection between “Canadian Values” and whiteness are
challenged through a performance inspired by the aesthetics of Bravo TV’s The Real
Housewives.
Sara Ahmed’s work in Affective Economies, specifically around the circulation of fear and the
passing by of a threat, inform the project. Canada’s Dry highlights the white nationalist fear of
letting the Other in and the threat of replacement by the Other. Canada’s Dry performs this very
fear.
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| Canada's Dry, 2017 Performance, and installation at Trinty Square Video |
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| Canada's Dry, 2017 Virtual Reality collage |
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| Canada's Dry, 2017 Performance, and installation at Trinty Square Video |