Sunday, August 17, 1:45 – 2:45 pm
The Garrick Theatre, Bonavista
Speakers: Brian Amadi, Deanne Hiscock (Port Union-Catalina-Little Catalina Women’s Institute), Stacey Howse and Kayla Stride (Eastern Owl), Ann-Sofie Kallok, Ánna-Katri Helander, and Sebastian Björkman (Dáiddadállu).
Moderators: Michelle McGeough and Carla Taunton
From a Western art historical perspective, artistic production has long been viewed as a solitary pursuit. Yet artist collectives demonstrate the transformational power of art to foster community, build capacity, unite voices, challenge institutions, and disrupt outmoded ways of thinking and making, producing work that is stronger together. The artists in this panel will share their perspectives on and experiences in creating collaboratively driven, grassroots, and community-based arts, in relation to the networks they work within and support.
Moderator bios: This panel is moderated by members of Curating Change, a nationally funded research initiative that considers that considers how art and exhibitions can bring about positive societal transformation.
Dr. Michelle McGeough (Cree Métis/Settler) completed her PhD in Indigenous art history at the University of New Mexico. Prior to returning to school for her advanced degree, she taught Museum Studies at the Institute of American Indian Art and was the Assistant curator at the Wheelwright Museum of the Native American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. McGeough currently teaches at Concordia University in the Art History department.
Dr. Carla Taunton, a white-settler scholar, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Art History and Contemporary Culture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (NSCAD). Her research contributes to arts-based critiques of settler colonialism and engages with theories of decolonization and inter-generational settler responsibility. She recently co-edited PUBLIC 64 Beyond Unsettling: Methodologies Towards Decolonized Futures and The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art in the United States and Canada. As a core research team member on several SSHRC grants, such as Inuit Futures, Thinking through the Museum and Counter Memory Activism she leads curatorial, publication and research creation projects as well as co-organizes public lecture series, workshops, and symposia. Her current research project, Curating Change explores curatorial activisms in settler colonial contexts and mobilizes collaborative curatorial incubators as a methodology towards activating inter-cultural, decolonial and anti-racist social change.
This presentation is realized with support from Curating Change.