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This art reminds Canada of our history of slavery

"In Canada there's this kind of racial innocence, this idea that race doesn't matter, we don't see race," says Toronto artist Camille Turner. "But that's not really true." »Subscribe to CBC Arts to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/CBCArtsSubscribe Born in Jamaica, Turner moved to Hamilton when she was nine — a place where she says she experienced "more open bigotry than anywhere else." Turner's work aims to bring to light that which has been forgotten and imagine new futures and put this Canadian reality in focus. "There's so much of the past that's been willfully forgotten." What's been forgotten is a history many Canadians can't even imagine is their own, imagining our past — and present — as better that it was or is. "You know, when I talk about slavery, people automatically think we're talking about the States, we're talking about somewhere else — it cannot be Canada." Turner upends this perception by bringing our history to the public on the streets of Toronto where it happened. "I want people to see this familiar place in a strange way. I want them to understand that there's way more to the ground that we're walking on." "The dead may be silent, but they're always present." One of Turner's projects is Miss Canadiana, a public performance piece where Turner performs a guided tour of Canada's hidden Black histories dressed as a fictional beauty queen. "I knew that there had been a Black community here and most people have no idea they existed, so this whole project is about telling their stories." These public performances begin with a visit to the archives, a place where Canada's history of slavery and racial oppression is found plainly on the page, but out of the public eye and public consciousness. "A lot of these stories, they're not marked in the streets; they're not in the history books. You have to really go looking for them." One piece of the archives Turner has informed her work is an ad that appeared in the Upper Canada Gazette in 1806. It reads: "TO BE SOLD, A BLACK WOMAN, named PEGGY, aged about forty years and a Black boy, her son, named JUPITER, aged about fifteen years, both of them the property of the Subscriber. The Woman is a tolerable Cook and washer woman..." Turner says she's been thinking a lot recently about the archives and how the way these stories are presented in them is only further dehumanizing. "How can we recuperate the humanity of people who have been enslaved when in the archives they're seen as property, not as people?" This is why she says she uses art and performance to tell these stories — "to really step into this history." Find us at http://bit.ly/CBCArtsWeb CBC Arts on Facebook: http://bit.ly/CBCArtsFacebook CBC Arts on Twitter: http://bit.ly/CBCArtsTwitter CBC Arts on Instagram: http://bit.ly/CBCArtsInstagram About: CBC Arts is your destination for extraordinary Canadian arts. Whether you're a culture vulture, a working artist, an avid crafter, a compulsive doodler or just a dabbler in the arts, there's something for you here. This art makes Canada remember our history of slavery    / cbcarts