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In the Making Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
The remarkable story of seventy-five year old Beverly Glenn-Copeland is one of an artist getting well-deserved acclaim after nearly five decades of obscurity. In 2016, an influential music collector in Japan named Ryota Masuko found a cassette tape of Glenn's 1986, self-released album Keyboard Fantasies, and wrote Glenn an email, asking to purchase the remaining stock of this beautiful electronic music record. This sparked a wave of interest in Glenn's music, and he is now touring the world for the first time with his band of much younger musicians-the generation that, he says, he was writing his music for. Host Sean O'Neill travels with Glenn to Japan, where he finally meets Ryota, who has so influenced the course of his life, and plays an intimate concert for his Japanese fans.
Episode 2
Walter Scott
Walter Scott's Wendy comics, depicting the hilarious and tender misadventures of an aspiring young artist, have been published by the New Yorker; received international acclaim; and gained a dedicated fanbase. This year, he is completing the third installment of Wendy books, with Wendy-a fictive version of himself-taking on the responsibilities of grad school, moving away from the hapless partying she's well-known for. Host Sean O'Neill joins Walter as he goes home to Kahnawá:ke, where he first started drawing comics as a kid, and as he prepares to debut some of the material from his new book in a performance in Montreal, the city where Wendy was born. The "Wendy-verse" is woven throughout, with animations created by Walter that bring Wendy to lo-fi yet remarkably vivid life.
Episode 3
Jeremy Dutcher
Polaris Prize winner Jeremy Dutcher has had an explosive year following the release of his first album, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, or "The songs of the people of the beautiful and bountiful river." The record, sung entirely in the Indigenous language of Wolastoq, combines Jeremy's classical Western music training with hundred-year-old archival recordings of songs from his community. After winning a JUNO, and making national headlines after calling out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's relations with Indigenous peoples from the stage, Jeremy is taking some much-needed time at home in New Brunswick. He goes back to work with Maggie Paul, the elder and song carrier who first introduced him to recordings that sparked his album. Host Sean O'Neill meets him and Maggie there, along with numerous other members of his community-the people that made Jeremy's work possible, and that he makes all of his music for.
Episode 4
Deanna Bowen
Deanna Bowen's critically-acclaimed videos and installations are a deep investigation into her family's history, as the descendents of formerly enslaved people who undertook epic migrations. Her rigorously researched projects range from tracing the presence of the KKK in the prairies to re-enactments of key television broadcasts that illustrate racism in Canada. For the past few years, she has been working on an ambitious project about Black nightlife and culture in Vancouver, her hometown, as a way to understand her family's traumatic experiences there. Host Sean O'Neill meets her as she prepares her largest solo exhibition to date, A Harlem Nocturne, named after the city's historic Black nightclub. Deanna takes Sean to the CBC archives and to the former site of Hogan's Alley, a Black neighbourhood that was demolished by the city of Vancouver-and then introduces her mother to the artwork that she hopes will help illuminate their lives and experiences.
Episode 5
Ken Lum
Since the 1970s, Ken Lum has produced iconic artworks that speak to the complexities of class, race, labour, and language, always framed by his mordant sense of humour. A prolific writer and teacher, and artist, Ken is best known for his public artworks as well as his thinking about monuments. Host Sean O'Neill meets Ken in Philadelphia, where Ken currently lives, for an introduction to the discourse around cities and historical markers that have shaped his recent work. Their walk then continues in Vancouver, Ken's hometown, where the majority of his work are located-they respond to both his background as a working class immigrant as well as to how the city has changed. Finally, Ken reveals a major new public artwork he is making for Burnaby, B.C.-a stirring sculpture of a retired workhorse that will sit at a major intersection, as a sentinel of both the past and the marginal.
Episode 6
Christopher House
Christopher House has helmed Toronto Dance Theatre, one of Canada's leading contemporary dance companies, for the past twenty-five years. After this coming season, he will be announcing his retirement from the company, at the age of sixty-four. This will not only mark the end of an era in Canadian dance but will also be a deeply personal milestone for him, having grown up in and worked with the TDT for the last 40 years. Host Sean O'Neill joins him as he prepares to dance in Marienbad, a challenging and experimental co-creation with playwright Jordan Tannahill. Marienbad explores a mysterious intergenerational exchange that is so crucial at this point in Christopher's life, both professionally and personally.
Episode 7
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory
Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory's mother taught her uaajeerneq, or Greenlandic mask dancing, when she was just a teenager going through puberty. A form of performance banned by colonial governments, uaajeerneq looks to provoke the most extreme of human emotions so as to help Inuit learn how to find equilibrium in an Arctic environment. Often working with collaborators like Tanya Tagaq, Laakkuluk's uaajeerneq performances are electrifying and unforgettable. Host Sean O'Neill joins Laakkuluk in Iqaluit, as she starts a brand new project-a "performance art band"-with filmmaker Jamie Griffiths, cellist Cris Derksen, and singer Cristine TooToo. Using an igloo as their rehearsal space, they meet and work together for the very first time, looking to create something that responds to the power of the landscape around them.
Episode 8
Rebecca Belmore
Rebecca Belmore is one of Canada's most well-respected and beloved artists and the first Indigenous woman to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale. Her artworks attend to deep- seated trauma with surprising beauty. Her career is now in the midst of a resurgence: her life's work is now touring across Canada in her largest survey exhibition yet, Facing the Monumental. Host Sean O'Neill visits her studio in Toronto, where Rebecca shares her process of production; travels with her to Thunder Bay, the troubled city where she grew up; and then meets up with her as she puts the finishing touches on Facing the Monumental at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon, where her work provokes an unsettling response.