"Don’t Stop Me Now!" December 22 to February 9, 2013, Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta

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"Nikamowin (Song)"

Kevin Lee Burton, "Nikamowin (Song)," 2007, digital video disk (DVD), 11:15 minutes, Collection of National Gallery of Canada. Photo by Helen Haig-Brown.

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"426 Hemi"

Kevin McKenzie, "426 Hemi," 2010, polyurethane resin and acrylic paint, 8.1” x 24.4” x 24”. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

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Kevin Lee Burton, "Nikamowin (Song)," 2007, digital video disk (DVD), 11:15 minutes, Collection of National Gallery of Canada. Photo by Helen Haig-Brown.

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Don’t Stop Me Now!

December 22 to February 9, 2013

Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta

A traveling exhibition organized by Daina Warren when she was aboriginal curatorial resident at the National Gallery of Canada, Don’t Stop Me Now! was inspired by the varied ways indigenous people travel today. “This group exhibition describes an indigenous world through many types of mobility: vehicles, bikes, planes, and spiritual travel through art,” says Warren, now director of Urban Shaman Contemporary Art in Winnipeg. The exhibition brings together 12 artists from Canada, New Zealand and the United States whose work is in the National Gallery’s permanent collection. The show includes Kevin McKenzie’s resin-cast buffalo skulls, which evoke the names of vintage hotrod cars. Meanwhile, Kevin Lee Burton uses text and sounds from the Cree language to create a visual soundscape in his video, Nikamowin (Song). Other artists include Sonny Assu, Norval Morrisseau, Terrance Houle, Tim Pitsiulak, Greg Staats, Taika Waititi, Steven Yazzie, Mike MacDonald, Larry McNeil and Jamasee Padluq Pitseolak.