LLAMA Project « Artists at work

Going up!

Yukon Arts Centre staff and LLAMA artists are working diligently this week to get ready for the premiere exhibition of the LLAMA Project’s Voz/Voice: the arts of resistance and resiliance. Opening night is on Thursday, Nov. 5th.

Joyce and Lorena’s work is up, and tomorrow the focus will be on getting Cesar’s multi-media piece in place [...]

Open Studio Photos

About ten days ago, the LLAMA Project hosted an open” studio” at Tuktu Studio (Joyce Majiski’s studio). A number of people dropped by meet the three artists currently in the Yukon: Patricia Deadman, Cesar Damian and Joyce Majiski. Upstairs, Cesar and Pat talked to people about their photographic work currently on their computers. Meanwhile, Joyce [...]

An ofrenda offering for the Yukon

by Maria Luisa de Villa

Back in Oaxaca, Mexico, but still fresh from the contact with the Yukon land, I think of my last days there. Days spent at the THAR, walking through the wooded areas sometimes ignoring the paths.

I completed the work Yukon Gold Maiz. Created in minimalist terms, it is a land work [...]

Underwater filming of feet

by Joyce Majiski

Cesar has made an important connection with a local film maker here in Whitehorse, Allan Code (Nah Ho Productions). After trying Allan’s aquarium to do some underwater filming, Cesar was hooked–big time! So–following a quick trip to town to find an aquarium for him, Cesar was set.

As part of his migrations and [...]

Yukon gold

by Maria Luisa

The whole notion of place and connectedness is very important to me in my life and in my creative process. I see and feel the personality of place, the material in nature or in any given space, and I have the idea. I connect and the dialogue begins unfolding a sense of [...]

Window of time on Yukon time

by Haruko Okano

My time at THARS as part of the LLAMA Project was indeed a window of time. Timeless, timely and not enough time.

However in looking back, considering that the amount of actual work time was much less than the 30 days of my actual stay in the Yukon, I consider [...]

Snippets of experiences

by Joyce Majiski

Last Wednesday, I was sitting and chatting with Haruko in the trees as she was preparing her trees to cover with paper and ink. We were reflecting on some of the comments made by the other two here–about their perceptions of the space and the experience.

Then Haruko says…”Wow washing this tree down is [...]

Visit to Sundog’s dugout canoe camp

Joyce Majiski and Haruko joined photographer Robin Armour and filmaker Allan Code on Tuesday for a voyage out to the island where advanced students of the Sundog Carving Program are making a 9-metre dugout canoe out of a large cedar tree. Here are a few images taken by Robin during the visit.

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Of jaguars, throat singers & clowns

It has been a while since my last update. I had some trouble with my hotmail being taken over by a scam artist. They sent out emails asking for money, saying I was stranded in London without passport or money and it has taken me about a week to regain access to my hotmail account [...]

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Filmmaker Allan Code, of Nah Ho Productions kindly edited and shared some of his film footage of Cesar Damian, taken while Cesar was working on his migration project in the Yukon. As Allan says Cesar reflects the fundamental joy and expressive power of motion. Amazingly; he does it in a single frame. With such passionate attention; what might we yet do with motion pictures and the stories we must tell?

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