- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Political Science, Critical Theory, Higher Education, Globalization, International Law, Cultural Policy, and 22 moreNational Cultural Policy, Canadian cultural policy, Critical and Cultural Theory, National Identity, Social Imaginaries, History, Economics, Cultural Studies, Art History, Social Sciences, Public Policy, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Cultural Globalization, Artistic Research, Cultural Practices, Comparative Cultural Studies, Theory and Practice of Visual Arts, Theory of Art, Feminist Theory, Feminism and Social Justice, Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, and Social Justiceedit
- Heidi Bergstrom is a multimedia visual artist and cultural researcher in Victoria, BC, Canada. Her fine art practice and exhibitions include works in painting, printmaking, vide... moreHeidi Bergstrom is a multimedia visual artist and cultural researcher in Victoria, BC, Canada. Her fine art practice and exhibitions include works in painting, printmaking, video and photography and multimedia installations. Heidi’s art-works emerge from and create a personal history, social and political narratives, and interactive community engagement. Heidi looks for meaning, symbolism, distortions of ‘reality’, imaginaries and disruption; she finds inspiration and interest everywhere – people, landscape, ideas and theory, current issues and philosophy.
Education
Heidi’s education includes a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Victoria, BC (2019). Her thesis focuses on the intersection of Canada’s cultural policies and international trade disputes at the WTO and the UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Expressions. Her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours (1990) is from York University, Ontario, where she majored in studio arts and art history. Heidi also studied visual arts full-time at the Toronto School of Art (1984-86), and in 2000 achieved a Diploma in New Media (Internet Site Design, 3D Animation, and Multimedia Production). Heidi’s artistic background also includes dance (classical ballet) at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and Professional Program with Goh Ballet in Vancouver, BC and contemporary/modern with Constance Cooke in Victoria, BC.
Heidi has over twenty-five years of professional experience in the corporate and non-profit sectors in diverse production and management roles such as Creative Services Manager for Corus Entertainment (training producers in television advertising production), Marketing at Campbell’s Soup corporation, and as Curator/Director of the Durham Art Gallery in Ontario. Heidi joined the BC Public Service in 2007 as a Director in the Ministry of Citizens’ Services. She has worked in a variety of leadership roles in IT service management, strategic and corporate planning, cross-government transformation projects, and organizational change management, among others.
Links
Thesis: Between the lines: locating critical theory at the intersection of trade and cultural policy in Canada - https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/10452
Studio H Canada: www.studiohcanada.ca and https://studiohresidencyblog.wordpress.com
Northern Women Art Collaborative (NWAC): https://northernwomen.org/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-bergstrom-64302816/edit - Jamie Lawsonedit
In the early 2000’s Canada and France were at the forefront of what appeared to be a counter-hegemonic movement in the rapid creation of the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions at UNESCO to... more
In the early 2000’s Canada and France were at the forefront of what appeared to be a counter-hegemonic movement in the rapid creation of the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions at UNESCO to perceived US cultural hegemony at the World Trade Organization. However, the final Convention lacks the fundamental protections it set out to create and reinforces the commodification of culture and the promotion of cultural industries, rather than challenging commodification or supporting arts and culture. This thesis uses Marxian critical theories to interrogate the nature and form of the Canadian government’s involvement in the creation of the Convention and posits Gramscian evidence of the presence of behaviours of hegemony and resistance to hegemony, the formation of a Weltanschauung (common sense world view) led by organic intellectuals in civil society and demonstrates important instances of trasformismo (absorption of counter-hegemonic ideas) at work.
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In the early 2000’s Canada and France were at the forefront of what appeared to be a counterhegemonic movement in the rapid creation of the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions at UNESCO to... more
In the early 2000’s Canada and France were at the forefront of what appeared to be a counterhegemonic movement in the rapid creation of the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions at UNESCO to perceived US cultural hegemony at the World Trade Organization. However, the final Convention lacks the fundamental protections it set out to create and reinforces the commodification of culture and the promotion of cultural industries, rather than challenging commodification or supporting arts and culture. This thesis uses Marxian critical theories to interrogate the nature and form of the Canadian government’s involvement in the creation of the Convention and posits Gramscian evidence of the presence of behaviours of hegemony and resistance to hegemony, the formation of a Weltanschauung (common sense world view) led by organic intellectuals in civil society and demonstrates important instances of trasformismo (absorption of counter-hegemonic ideas...
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An overview of the traditional and contemporary on exhibition at Heimilisiðnaðarsafnið / Textile Museum in Blönduós, northern Iceland.
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An overview with lots of photos of the Fabric of Our Land Coast Salish weaving exhibit at the UBC Museum of Anthropology.
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Brief background history of the Cowichan knitters and their techniques and how contemporary artists are responding to this history and honouring it. I documented a series of works hidden away in the Victoria International Airport upstairs... more
Brief background history of the Cowichan knitters and their techniques and how contemporary artists are responding to this history and honouring it. I documented a series of works hidden away in the Victoria International Airport upstairs lounge including carvings and weavings.
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The Cowichan Tribe struggled (and lost) against the Hudson’s Bay Company in 2010 over their intellectual property rights and the cultural appropriation of First Nations cultural expressions during the Olympics in British Columbia.