The Globe and Mail (Page R1) — June 29, 2004.
Anishnabe sculptor and performance artist Rebecca Belmore is the first native woman artist chosen to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale, “the world’s most prestigious art venue.” Her exhibition, for the June 2005 biennale, is curated by Scott Watson and Jann LM Bailey of the Kamloops Art Gallery.
At 44, Belmore is best known for Speaking to Their Mother, a 1991 outdoor performance with a two-metre-wide megaphone…. Beautiful in itself, the megaphone is also a mouthpiece that can be installed anywhere, from a windswept meadow in Banff, where Belmore created the work, to Parliament Hill, where it was used by the Assembly of First Nations to protest its exclusion from the 1996 first ministers conference.