Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like Episode 6 Explores Architecture, Monuments, and Rebecca Belmore's From Inside

The sixth episode of the radio program Radio Show Me What Democracy Looks Like, released September 30, 2026, examines architecture, monuments, and spaces within the visual culture of democracy. The episode centers on Rebecca Belmore's 2017 work Biinjiya'iing Onji (From Inside), a marble tent first installed in Athens and later shown at documenta 14 in Kassel. Curator Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation) describes the experience of entering the lowered tent: time slowed, city noise became a low hum, and the Parthenon stood visible ahead. Hopkins frames the work as a monument to the greatest mass migration in human history, set against the Parthenon as a monument to Western democracy, noting that the gap between them only widens. The episode also references Exergue on documenta 14 and roles, responsibilities, and freedoms. A segment titled Footnote on the Eruption of Truth features testimony from Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation, who recounts abuse at a residential school and the 2015 conclusion of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, when the chairman declared cultural genocide and a room of at least 7,000 erupted in vindication. Joseph spoke after Clementine Deliss's presentation at 34 Exercises of Freedom in 2017. The episode closes with The Rolling Stones' Paint It Black (1966).