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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">November 02, 2018
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Fugitives hiding out at the BC Archives<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC–</span></strong><a name="OLE_LINK5"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Researchers
know the BC Archives is a phenomenal resource for historical documents, and it turns out that the shelves also hold a surprising selection of odd material items that don’t seem to fit, like bullets, wallets and rocks.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Fugitives in the Archive</span></i></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">,
the new Pocket Gallery exhibition at the Royal BC Museum, is inspired by the unexpected objects that two artist-anthropologists encountered while conducting research at the BC Archives.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Fugitives in the Archive</span></i></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
is a collaboration between Dr. Trudi Lynn Smith, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, and Dr. Kate Hennessy, Associate Professor at the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University,
and the BC Archives, part of the Royal BC Museum. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Smith and Hennessy use the term “fugitives” to describe objects that resist archival preservation techniques or do not conform
to archival conventions. <i>Fugitives in the Archive</i> features diverse objects such as bullet fragments and acid-burnt paper, each bearing a unique story.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">For example, the exhibition features an image of a box of</span></strong><b><span lang="EN-GB">
</span></b><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">cellulose nitrate negatives, which in unstable conditions can be extremely volatile. Used widely between the 1880s and the early
1950s, cellulose nitrate was notorious for starting fires in cinema projection rooms. (They are now part of the BC Archives’ sample collection and used to demonstrate the unstable nature and decomposition of nitrate negatives.)<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The exhibition is a rare fusion of art and archives, provoking questions about the ongoing human connection to materials
in archives and our responsibility to consider the role of archives in our society.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">Fugitives in the Archive</span></i></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">
closes on January 6, 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The Pocket Gallery occupies a corner “pocket” of the museum’s ground floor Clifford Carl Hall and is easily accessible,
for free, to all visitors during opening hours (10:00 am to 5:00 pm, seven days a week).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The Pocket Gallery was originally envisioned, in early 2016, to cast a bright light on the amazing array of Royal BC Museum
collections, research and conservation work that visitors rarely get to see. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">It has since been broadened to also feature the work of partners, like the Sisters of St. Ann, and external research that
investigates and interrogates the museum collections, like <i>Fugitives in the Archive</i>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">You can see images of the current Pocket Gallery display at
</span></strong><b><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/exhibitions/pocket-gallery"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/exhibitions/pocket-gallery</span></a></span></b><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";font-weight:normal">The Pocket Gallery is supported by Helijet.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">About the Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xbodytext" style="margin-top:.1pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of
BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Located in Victoria on the traditional territory of
the Lekwungen (Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations), we are a hub of community connections in BC–onsite, offsite and online–taking pride in our collective histories.
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