Canada: Remembering and Un-remembering a Century of Prairie Settlement - Community-triggered Performance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper discusses Windblown/Rafales, a community-triggered performance produced by Knowhere Productions in Ponteix, Saskatchewan, Canada in 2007, to commemorate the town's centennial. As lieu de memoire, Ponteix provided a rich site of investigation, discursive field and performative space for deconstructing/reconstructing identity. Site-specific performances used material traces and built heritage to investigate and interrogate the past. The result was fragmented and ambiguous, reflecting the environment's multiplicities. Ponteix provided a unique set of circumstances: a French-speaking, Marian community founded by immigrants from the Auvergne, the town is landlocked and time-locked, its language and culture challenged by pressures to change and assimilate. Now, at a crossroads, the community looked to Knowhere Productions to examine its collective memory and to illuminate options and new directions. Using the terms of place making and sustainability, this paper outlines the creative tensions that arose as artists and citizens collaborated on a performance that stretched and perforated the community's sense of itself.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".