{"id":1428,"date":"2016-01-09T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T19:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2016-06-05T02:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T06:16:28","slug":"portage-2007-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/portage-2007-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Portage 2007 Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An October 2007\u00a0public intervention by Terence Houle and Trevor Freeman, involving the portage of a 16 ft canoe through the crowded downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, from English Bay to Coal Harbour. Dressing up in stereotypically &#8220;traditional&#8221; Aboriginal and M\u00e9tis garb, Houle and Freeman traverse the populated urban terrain of Vancouver&#8217;s metropolitan centre.<\/p>\n<p>Hole\u00a0dressed in a loincloth and moccasins and Freeman wore\u00a0early fur-trapping attire and a Metis sash tied around his waist. After posing with the\u00a0canoe in front of the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company store on Granville, they placed the canoe\u00a0on their heads, one man in the front and one man in the back and began their \u2018Portage\u2019 through the downtown core of Vancouver. Along the way, they interacted with people and occasionally stopped to talk, or eat, or rest. The \u2018Portage\u2019 endurance performance took\u00a0approximately 2-3 hours.<\/p>\n<h3>External Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themedicineproject.com\/terrance-houle-trevor-freeman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Video of <em>Portage 2007 Vancouver<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An October 2007\u00a0public intervention by Terence Houle and Trevor Freeman, involving the portage of a 16 ft canoe through the crowded downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, from English Bay to Coal Harbour. Dressing up in stereotypically &#8220;traditional&#8221; Aboriginal and M\u00e9tis garb, Houle and Freeman traverse the populated urban terrain of Vancouver&#8217;s metropolitan centre. Hole\u00a0dressed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/portage-2007-vancouver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portage 2007 Vancouver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[288,23,286,287],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics-art-history-and-cultural-institutions","category-projects","tag-decolonial-theory","tag-performance","tag-terence-houle","tag-trevor-freeman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}