46th Annual University of British Columbia\, Art History\, Visual Art and Theory Graduate Symposium
MakeShift: handmade\, homemade\, and remade productions
Endnote presentation by Jane Wong at 4:00 pm
Audain Art Centre
6398 University Blvd
The 46th Annual UBC AHVA Symposiu
m and Exhibition Committee presents MakeShift: handmade\, homemade\,
and remade productions\, a processing of collectively shared anxiet
ies about the rise of visualizations generated with artificial intelligence
technology and various automated messaging systems. Co-chaired by graduate
students Morgan Sears-Williams\, Maya Rodrigo-Abdi\, Lane
y Agodon\, and Gulmehar Dhillon\, this year’s event proposes a m
aterial-focused and making-oriented shift in the ways in which we engage wi
th art. MakeShift will make space for further dialogue concerning ar
tistic practices that work to resist commodification\, gendered divisions o
f labour\, and other/ed objects found in our materialist dialectic.
Fo llowing graduate student paper presentations\, an endnote presentation led by poet\, memoirist\, and interdisciplinary artist Jane Wong (Wester n Washington University) will commence at 4:00 pm. This talk will feature a collaborative workshop\, Seaweed Song: Making and Remaking Poetry\, where participants will weave a community book out of seaweed\, thread\, a nd poetry. Wong will also share work from her 2019 exhibition at Frye Art M useum\, After Preparing the Altar\, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly\, an d speak to the poetics of nourishment\, re-envisioning form across mediums\ , process-based play\, and honouring the labour of her family.
Schedule:
Thursday\, March 2\, 2023
Keynote speaker: Olumoroti Soji-George
5:00 –
6:30 pm
“Exquisite Corpse”
Friday\, March 3\, 2023
Lost and Found
Objects Panel
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Bronwen Cox (University of Toronto)
“Subjects of Desire: Surreal
ist Objets and Female Subjectivity”
Nathan
Clark (UBC)
“Poetry in Fragments: The Paradox of Place in Cecilia Vic
uña’s Pueblos de altares (1990–2019)”
<
u>Capitalist Ruin Panel
12:30 – 1:30
pm
Gwenyth Chao (Emily Carr University of Art an
d Design)
“Making with and Thinking through Compost”
1:30 – 2:30 pm Lunch Break
Processing Place Panel
2:30 – 3:45 pm
Ashar Mobeen (University of Western Ontario)
“Won
ders of the Ancestral Puebloans: Astronomers\, Engineers\, and Magicians of
the Four Corners”
Allison Man
der-Wionzek (UBC)
“Migration to Stable Ground: Trance and Wande
ring in the Films of Stacey Steers and Caryn Cline through the Lens of Brun
o Latour’s New Climatic Regime”
Jane Wong (Western Washington University
)
“Seaweed Song: Making and Remaking Poetry”
W e acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional\ , ancestral\, and unceded territory of the xʷ məθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
This symposium is made possible by the generous support of the Audain E ndowment for Curatorial Studies and the Departmen t of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Colum bia. Thank you to the additional support of the Morris and Helen Belkin Gal lery\, Museum of Anthropology\, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studie s\, Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic\, School of Informati on\, Department of Asian Studies\, Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies\, Department of Anthropology\, Centre for European Stu dies\, and Department of History.
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