Nicole Bauberger

Nov 4, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Nicole Bauberger |Newest Edition

As I ascended the escalator to view Shelley Niro’s solo retrospective exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, I saw a friend. In “Abnormally Aboriginal”, a photographic and text-based piece from 2013. Niro uses photographic self-portraits and text to question what being “aboriginal” and/or “original” might mean.

Jul 29, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Nicole Bauberger

I got some emails back from you! I am so happy and grateful for them. I have gathered them up here and put them to use. For newcomers to the column, I have been aiming to alternate between two ways of writing here. Some columns will be primarily first-person musings from my confused wayfinding amid what often seems like contradictions in our mainstream Canadian material culture. Others will draw from stories people send to me at [email protected].

Jun 3, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Nicole Bauberger

Welcome back to Material Reculturing! For those new to the column, I’ve undertaken to write these every month, alternating between first-person stories from my life as a mediocre environmentalist (this is one of those), and stories from other people who are also wrestling with the contradictions we inhabit in our current material culture.

Mar 4, 2024 | whatsupyukon.com | Nicole Bauberger

I have had the good fortune to be selected as an Artist in Residence at Raven ReCentre for two summers now. My work with Zero Waste Yukon seems to be permeating my creative mind. It made me question and explore how I use materials in the context of the material culture we inhabit here together, one with cars and Ziplock bags and grapefruit. I use all these things. The more I think about these things, the more confused I get. I am, at best, a mediocre environmentalist.

Jun 8, 2023 | gallerieswest.ca | Nicole Bauberger

My Beautiful Laundry, an exhibition by Annie Canto and Jasmina Majcenic, re-imagines the function of a gallery as helping visitors with a basic need, while supporting creativity and championing idle time. Vinyl signage in the windows of the ODD Gallery in Dawson City, a community of some 1,500 people in central Yukon, lists the laundry’s offerings – everything from mending and air drying to coffee and karaoke.