Kim Vose Jones Lifeboat: An Unnatural History
LifeBoat: An Unnatural History presents viewers with allegorical depictions of transitional precariousness and migratory flight.聽 Inspired by natural history museum displays as well as historical and current events, it invokes complex and overlapping social, political, ethical, and cultural issues.
The project began, in part, while researching my family genealogy and discovering an ancestor, Anne Dodin, who came to Qu茅bec in 1669 along with dozens of other young French girls.聽 These filles du roi were shipped off to Qu茅bec as part of Louis XIV鈥檚 project of breeding new generations of colonial settlers.聽 It continued to evolve through the pandemic period amid rising housing insecurity, local and global tensions over immigration, and the ever-looming threats of environmental collapse (Kim Vose Jones).
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