Conflicting Heroes
Just as Europe buttresses its defences against the dispossessed families arriving at its shores, Berlin opened its 10th Biennale lifted not only the title from Tina Turner’s theme song for (1985) but also its defiant revolutionary charge. the Berlin extension of Canada’s Contemporary Native Art Biennial hosted by Art Mûr, brought a North American perspective to the larger event’s post-colonial discourse, though it forwent the adrenaline of the rock anthem for a more ambivalent approach. For curator Michael Patten, the heroic role model is both necessary and problematic, poised at a point of contradiction that can either uplift or oppress. The cross-section of real and
