Curatorial Statement: Salt. Washing. Beuys. Fat. Royalty. Copper. Canadian Club. John. Locked. Bear. Drum. Circle.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The image included on the cover of this journal is from Tahltan artist Peter Morin’s performance, Salt. Washing. Beuys. Fat. Royalty. Copper. Canadian Club. John. Locked. Bear. Drum. Circle. The image portrays Morin being suffocated by a rye-soaked British flag while kneeling in front of the Macdonald statue in Kingston. This action, one of many taken by Morin during the performance, evoked the continuing erasure of Indigenous cultures in Canada and the stifling of Indigenous presence by assimilative forces. Kneeling in front of Macdonald, Morin connected ongoing Indigenous suffering to the Prime Minister and, more broadly, to the construction of Canada as a British colonial nation. Despite the pain of the action pictured here, through further performative actions Morin repurposed the statue into a pirate broadcasting station. Morin invited audience members to hold copper pipes to the statue’s base. He then spoke and sang into the pipes, allowing his voice to be brought up through the pipes and through the statue into the air and across the universe. Morin’s words and song communicated resilience and sovereignty to Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island and to the ancestors. In this action, and throughout his performance, Morin briefly removed the power of the colonial symbols of the statue and Prime Minister, and instead used them for his own voice. Through this repurposing of colonial iconography, Morin truly spoke back to John A Macdonald.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.861 | 0.657 |
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".