Circumventing Protocol and Building Collaborative Histories: A Conversation on <i>Freedom Tours</i> with Tania Willard, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, and Camille Turner
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2017, artists Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Camille Turner collaborated to stage Freedom Tours , two performative interventions in Canadian National Parks. The work was commissioned by Partners in Art for LandMarks2017/Repères2017 , a nationwide public arts project across twenty national parks, featuring seven curators and twelve artists. The occasion was the 150th anniversary of Canadian confederation, though, as the LandMarks curators made clear, “a hundred and fifty years is not a long time,” if you consider that there are “marked mammoth bones […which] suggest that the first humans inhabited Turtle Island over 28,000 years ago.” Freedom Tours took the form of two participatory interventions emphasizing Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and Black histories in the territory: a guided boat tour at Thousand Islands National Parks and an intergenerational walking tour or procession at Rouge National Urban Park. In 2024, we met with curator Tania Willard and artists Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Camille Turner over zoom to discuss the frictions and the sparks that arose from this project. What follows is a distilled version of that conversation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".