Radical (Re)worlding: Breaking and
Making Worlds through Radical Lenses
44th Annual AHVA Graduate Sympos
ium
March 4 - 5\, 2021
E vent Program: https://ah va.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2021/03/44th-Graduate-Sympos ium-Program-FINAL.pdf
On Zoom
Please register here:
https
://ahva.ubc.ca/ahva-graduate-symposium-2021-registration/
Artist Talks by Lisa Jackson and 0rphan Drift
Breaking and making worlds through radical lenses such as decolonization\, abolition\, q ueering\, feminisms (xeno-\, cyber-\, trans-)\, and destituency.
To change anything\, start everywhere. – CrimethInc.
Rad ical (Re)worlding is a collaborative\, interdisciplinary event\, o rganized by current AHVA graduate students that is excited to present contr ibutions on a wide variety of topics\, both contemporary and historical\, b y emerging academics\, artists\, curators\, and independent researchers and theorists.
We’re thinking about radical ideas such as xenofeminism’s post-gender world\; anarchists’ dual-power projects\; accelerationism’s em brace of automation and rejection of folk politics\; Agamben’s destituency\ ; and finally in the academy\, the growing body of thinking around the Unde rcommons.
Forty-plus years ago\, Gayatri Spivak defined “worlding” as
the transformation of the colonized space by colonizers (e.g.\, through ma
p making). Can we retake or remake that term? Rather than hit
...imagination is a contested field of action\, not an ephemeral afterthought that we have the luxury to dismiss o r romanticize\, but a resource\, a battleground\, an input and output of te chnology and social order. In fact\, we should acknowledge that most people are forced to live inside someone else's imagination and one of the things we have to come to grips with is how the nightmares that many people are f orced to endure are the underside of elite fantasies about efficiency\, pro fit and social control. – Ruha Benjamin
Another world is possibl e.
This event takes place remotely\, but the University of Britis h Columbia Point Grey campus occupies the traditional\, ancestral\, and unc eded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
Schedule :
Thursday\, March 4\, 2021
Artist Talk: Lisa Jackson
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Friday\, March 5\, 2021
Artist Talk: 0rphan D
rift
10:00 – 11:30 am
Session 1: Art (History)
as a Site of Resistance
12:00 – 2:00 pm
From Activism t
o Artistic Practice: (Re)imagining Indigenous Women’s Labour Activism in Co
ntemporary Art
Erika Kindsfather\, MA student in Art History\,
the Department of Art History\, Visual Art\, and Theory\, University of Br
itish Columbia
A Garden Among the Flames: Illumination Style
as Resistance to Socio-Political Medieval Iberian Change in the Osma Beatu
s.
Zoey Kambour\, MA student in Art History\, the Department o
f History of Art and Architecture\, University of Oregon
Break – 10 minutes
Tentative Title: The Bla
tant Image: “Ovular” Artist Workshops at the Lesbian Land Rootworks in
Southern Oregon\, 1980 to 1984
Raechel Root\, PhD student in
Art History\, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture\, Unive
rsity of Oregon
How Was the Situationist International “Inte
rnational”?
Anna O’Meara\, PhD student in Art History\, the De
partment of Art History and Visual Studies\, University of Victoria
Moderator: Dr. Rachel Boate\, Assistant Professor\, the Departm ent of Art History\, Visual Art\, and Theory\, University of British Columb ia
Session 2
: Digital (Re)vision
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Warmth Is Not Simpl
e
Eileen Isagon Skyers\, MA Critical Studies\, Pacific Northwe
st College of Art\, Artist and Independent Researcher
Hyperv
olition: Our Sacrifice of Choice
Jevonne Peters (Jevi)\, MFA s
tudent in Digital Futures\, OCAD University
Break – 10 m inutes
Shimmering Horizons: Reflections and Refractions of an On
line Exhibition
Laurie White\, MA Critical and Curatorial Stud
ies\, the Department of Art History\, Visual Art\, and Theory\, University
of British Columbia\; Program Coordinator at Or Gallery
Envi
sioning Our World through a Techno-Scientific Lens: Fiction and the Contemp
orary Mapping of Body and Empire
Cassandra Gemmell\, MA studen
t in Contemporary Art\, Design\, New Media Art Histories\, OCAD University<
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Moderator: Dr. T’ai Smith\, Associate Professor \, the Department of Art History\, Visual Art\, and Theory\, University of British Columbia
Session 3: Breaking and (Un)mak
ing
4:00 – 6:00 pm
The Hole is Whole: Broken Ceramic Ve
ssels as Sites of Creation
Lucia Wallace\, MA student in Conte
mporary Art\, Design and New Media Art Histories\, OCAD Un
iversity
The Heterogeneity of the Moment: Theorising the Plu
rality of Time and Space in San Yuan Li
Gigi Wong\, MA student
in Film Studies\, Carleton University
Break – 10 minute s
Precarious Possibilities: NYC’s Queer Piers
Maega
n Gaudette\, MA student in Art History\, the Department of Art History\, Co
ncordia University
Mending the Past and Min
ding the Gap: Collage as a Critical Strategy for Social Repair
Marilyn Adlington\, MFA student in Criticism and Curatorial Practices\, OC
AD University
Moderator: Dr. Erin Silver\, Assistant Pro fessor\, the Department of Art History\, Visual Art\, and Theory\, Universi ty of British Columbia
Following the symposium an exhibi
tion will be held at the AHVA Gallery in March (Date TBC)