Graduate Colloquium with Scott Hessels

In this graduate colloquium Scott Hessels will present his sculptural and installation work that incorporates natural forces either directly or through sensor technologies and place his exhibited kinetic works in a context of earthworks and sustainability awareness. This will be followed by graduate studio visits with six students.

Research Talk with Heather Barnett

We are pleased to invite you to a series of events featuring interdisciplinary artist Heather Barnett and Physarum polycephalum. During her visit, Barnett will present her recent research, will conduct a workshop, and will explore the city of Toronto, inspired by the nonhuman perspective of this organism, also known as slime mould.

Dreams, Visions and Hallucinations: Disability and Other Ways of Seeing

Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning hosts a public conversation with Traditional Doctor and Elder Mona Stonefish on Anishinaabe dream imaging practices and their implications for critical disability studies. Manning worked with her mother and Stonefish in developing her mnidoo theory of consciousness. This interrelational understanding of perception and knowing involves a possession by these living potencies, along with an expanded understanding of vision. In this discussion, they question …

Georgina Kleege — Blind Self Portraits: Remaking the Image of Blindness

Kleege explores the ways blindness and visual art are linked in many facets of the culture, speaking from her position as the blind daughter of two visual artists. Due to this background, she claims to know something about art, but recognizes that this claim challenges cultural notions that conflate seeing with knowing. She examines the …

Artist Talk: Skawennati and Jason Lewis

Skawennati and Jason Edward Lewis write, make art, invent technologies, and run workshops that teach Indigenous youth how to make video games and machinima (among other things). Their individual and collaborative works have been distributed and celebrated online, in gallery exhibitions, public installations, and at media and Indigenous arts festivals across Canada and internationally. Critical to …