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Dr. Lynne Bell - Project Researcher

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Project Description

Researchers

Dr. Marie Battiste
Dr. Lynne Bell
Dr. Len Findlay

Graduate Researchers

Lori Blondeau
Dale Kurylyk
Mike Fralic

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Dr. Lynne Bell is a visual historian. She is professor and head of the Department of Art and Art History. Born and educated in England, she studied at the University of Hull and the University of East Anglia before coming to Canada in 1973. Over the last decade, her research and teaching practice has focussed on the vast accumulation of decolonizing strategies developed by visual artists to address the continuing forms and effects of colonial consciousness in Canadian society. This work has taken public form in curated exhibitions, essays, published interviews, exhibition catalogues, academic talks, conference development, and courses taught in the interdisciplinary field of visual culture.

Relevant publications :

Books:

Lori Blondeau and Bell, Lynne (eds.) High Tech Storytellers: An Interdisciplinary Indigenous Art Project. Saskatoon: Tribe (exhibition catalogue). Forthcoming.

Bell, Lynne (ed.). Urban Fictions. Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery (exhibition catalogue), 1997: 63pp.

Chapters in Books:

Bell, Lynne. “It’s all about de-disciplining and de-colonizing: notes from my working life as a visual historian.” In Lynn Hughes et al (eds.). Penser L’Indiscipline: Recherches Interdisciplinaires En Art Contemporain. Montreal: Artexte and Optica. 2002.

Bell, Lynne (with Janice Williamson). “in the hands of the People ...A Conversation with Marjorie Beaucage.” North of Everything: English Canadian Cinema Since 1980. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. 2002.

Bell, Lynne. “Talking a Walk in the City” in L. Bell (ed.) Urban Fictions. Vancouver: Presentation House Gallery (exhibition catalogue), 1997: pp. 44-56.

Bell, Lynne. “The Canon: Some Reflections on Art History, Value and the Academy,” in L. Findlay (ed.) Value and the University, Humanities Research Unit Occasional Publications. University of Saskatchewan, 1993: pp. 43-50.

Journal Articles

Bell, Lynne [with J. Williamson]. “High tech Storyteller: A Conversation with Performance Artist Lori Blondeau.” Fuse Magazine. Vol. 24, No. 4/2001: pp. 27-35.

Bell, Lynne. “Ghost Dancing on the Urban Frontier: the Photographic Work of Jeffrey Thomas.” BlackFlash. Vol. 18.3/2001: pp.30-35.

Bell, Lynne [with J. Williamson]. “Talking Cyber Pow Wow and Hand Drums: A Conversation with Cheryl L’Hirondelle,” AntiThesis, University of Melbourne, (Special Issue: Insights and Outposts). Summer 1999 (Volume 10): pp. 187-204.

Bell, Lynne. “History of People Who Were Not Heroes: A Conversation with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons,” Third Text: Third World Perspectives On Contemporary Art and Culture, Summer 1998 (Number 43): pp. 33-43.

Bell, Lynne [with C. Williams].“Distance of Distinct Vision: An Interview with Laiwan,”The Capilano Review, January 1998 (Issue 2: No 24): pp. 57-69.

Bell, Lynne [with J. Williamson].“ On Crossing Lines and Going Between: An Interview with Marjorie Beaucage,” Tessera, Summer 1997 (no. 22): pp. 144-164.

Bell, Lynne [with C. Williams]. “The Gitksan Cultural Revival: An Interview with Doreen Jensen,” B.C. Studies (A Special Double Issue: Native Peoples and Colonialism). Autumn/Winter 1997/98: pp.289-306.

Bell, Lynne [with C. Williams]. “Learn the Alif-Ba-Ta: An Interview with Jamelie Hassan,” West Coast Line: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Criticism. Autumn 1997 (number 23):pp. 82-95.

Bell, Lynne [with C. Williams].“Geographical Memory and Island Space: An Interview with Melinda Mollineaux”, West Coast Line: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Criticism. Autumn 1997 (number 23): pp. 124-144.