Difficult Histories Database
Sydney Wreaks, MAAE exhibitor, with Lucy Boyd
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Treaty Space Gallery, 1107 Marginal Rd.
Presented as part of the Creative Counter-Memorialization Symposium/Gathering in Kjipuktuk/Halifax
The Difficult Histories Database (DHD) is as an open-access, free, and digitally accessible archive of sites of difficult knowledge and history in and around the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) located within Mi’kma’ki.
This database connects users with articles, academic literature, site specific field notes, and artist interventions that respond to settler-colonial structures of violence, occupation, displacement, and genocide which has become mundanely entangled in public urban spaces and Canadian history. DHD can be used as a counter-mapping tool that tries to unsettle colonial histories reflected by street names, place names, “permanent” monuments, National Historic Sites, and environmental sites.
Sydney Wreaks (BFA 2020 NSCAD) is a current Master of Art in Art Education candidate. Lucy Boyd is a History and Early Modern Studies student at University of King’s College.
