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• “A New Chivalry”: The Calgary Stampede on Film

  The star of 1925’s The Calgary Stampede, Nebraska-born Hoot Gibson, a champion rodeo rider, even won the Steer Roping Championship at the first Calgary Stampede in 1912. By the...

• “A New Chivalry”: The Calgary Stampede on Film

  Malloy specializes in the spectacular and dangerous “Roman racing,” done while standing on two horses simultaneously. Racial identity in the West is an interestingly prominent concern in The Calgary...

• “A New Chivalry”: The Calgary Stampede on Film

  It is likely due to the success of The Calgary Stampede that, seven years later, The Girl from Calgary, seems to assume that the viewer does not need...

• “A New Chivalry”: The Calgary Stampede on Film

  The Girl from Calgary starts with an image of a Stampede poster and seven minutes of newsreel footage, including showing the Stampede Parade marching past the Hudson’s Bay building...

• “A New Chivalry”: The Calgary Stampede on Film

  Made 16 years later, the colour Western Northwest Stampede is a considerably more lavish production. It seems to repurpose a few elements from The Calgary Stampede, including a rodeo...

• Hopping for Hope: Ahreum Lee at The New Gallery

  Ahreum Lee’s exhibition Hopping for Hope at The New Gallery in Calgary re-imagines childhood games on a global scale, posing questions about ownership, borders, and global identity. The show...

• Hopping for Hope: Ahreum Lee at The New Gallery

  Like meridians on a map, the exhibition occupies the gallery space with diagonal lines made of tape and black circles, semi-circles, and arrows. This is Lee’s take on...

• Hopping for Hope: Ahreum Lee at The New Gallery

  During the opening of the show, people slipped off their shoes and tried to hop the entire map on one foot, to cheers and encouragement from the crowd....

• Hopping for Hope: Ahreum Lee at The New Gallery

  The video incorporates footage of the East Asian pseudoscience Cheok Ji Beob, which translates to “the way to make the world smaller.”¹One of the principles of Cheok Ji Beob...

• Hopping for Hope: Ahreum Lee at The New Gallery

  In all three pieces, Lee asks viewers to consider how our sense of space is mediated by our understanding of physical maps, as well as digital tools. Throughout...