| This is a study of desire, embodiment and absence that explores three specific sites of convergence relating to the Prince House, a reconstituted historical site currently located within Heritage Park Historical Village in Calgary, Alberta. The objective of this project is to explore the link between performance and history through a critical engagement with place that upsets and challenges notions of archive, truth, fantasy and fiction. By mobilizing various notions of archive, I aim to gain insight into the ways in which knowledge is stored, meaning is made, and narratives of history are codified. This study is predicated on the hypotheses that silences are never neutral, that absences are never a-political, and that ghosts (understood as the refugees of a specific kind of archival violence) are both culturally and temporally site-specific, as well as gendered. |
