​Michèle Pearson Clarke | Michaëlle Sergile | Ashley Raghubir
15 October 2020, 1:30–3:00pm
Presented in collaboration with EAHR | Media (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research in Media) 

All CICA 2020/21 events will take place online in collaboration with 4th SPACE.

Zoom links via:
concordia.ca/cica

What does it mean to come together as exhausted ones?
How does exhaustion already sit in our bodies as BIPOC activists?
What are the relationships between resistance, exhaustion, and structural oppression?

This workshop-gathering is inspired by Akwugo Emejulu & Leah Bassel’s recent article, ‘The politics of exhaustion’ which proposes, among other things, the notion of ‘structural exhaustion’. Rather than simply discussing these themes, Rajni invites those who are exhausted to come together and experience solidarity, respite, and reflection. There is no required reading for the session, and you will be welcome to participate in any way you need, including remaining camera-off if this is most comfortable for you. Rajni will share the article that inspired the session with everyone after we meet.

In order to create a safer space, Rajni has requested that this online gathering is restricted to people who identify as BIPOC* (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour).

Please register in advance so that we can send you details nearer to the time. The form to register is here: https://forms.gle/QDVEi5mgHtonZtt57
* These terms can feel clumsy, but are helpful in the work of decentering whiteness. If you self-identify as BIPOC you are welcome here, no questions asked.

The Decolonial Hub Presents: The Syllabus Deconstruction Collab - Session One
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Bring your syllabus and join us at our Syllabus Deconstruction, session one of two on Friday, November 22nd 1:30-3:30pm. A collaborative meeting for us, faculty and students, to share our trials and tribulations creating and engaging with syllabi. What limitations and considerations are involved in creating a syllabus? What voices are centered? What frustrations are experienced by students? What are the consequences of deviating from our disciplines eurocentric canon? Can a syllabus be collaboratively developed by faculty, students and the community? Pending questions, to be discovered together.
Help us welcome: Dr. Satoshi Ikeda and Dr. Natalie Batraville as they share the decolonial techniques that they employ within their syllabus and class structure.
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Room: Ethnography Lab, EV. 10. 62

​Come join PhD students (Sociology) Jamilah Dei-Sharpe, Hone Mandefro, and Kymani Montgomery, the University Research Chairs in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement, Heather Igloliorite, and Ethnocultural Art Histories, Alice Ming Wai Jim, and Postdoctorate fellow, Dr. Angeles Cohen, at our inaugural event to launch Concordia University’s Decolonial Perspectives and Practises (DPP) Hub. November 1st, 4:45-6pm at 4th Space Concordia University in the LB Building.

​Quentin VerCetty Lindsay is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual griot (storyteller) and arts educator who is currently working on his MA in Art Education at Concordia University with a focus on teaching Afrofuturism to underserved communities. Lindsay's art has been featured in numerous media outlets and publications in various countries including Japan, Haiti, Peru, Ghana, Australia, United Arab Emirates, and France.
 
For more information on EAHR’s Library Research Residency and Quentin’s research project on Afrofuturism (and our previous year’s project on African art by Chelsy Monie), please visit the Concordia Library Website at: https://www.concordia.ca/library/guides/art-history.html#4.

Co-presented by SAVAC and Cinema Politica
In partnership with the EAHR Concordia (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group) and EAHR|Media CISSC Working Group, Concordia University.

A discussion will follow the screening with curator Sharlene Bamboat and artists Swapnaa Tamhane (August Fröhls) and Oliver Husain. Moderated by Ronald Rose-Antoinette.
MONITOR 13 invites the viewer to consider the indecipherable traces and charges of the past. It is an invitation to dance to the meditative, moving images in the program. Through letters, biographies, surfaces, sounds and architectures, the curators have assembled the films to gesture not only towards things lost and hidden along the way, but their connections to living and renewal.
MONITOR is SAVAC’s longstanding experimental South Asian film and video program that holds steady engagement with an international community of artists, curators and critics, initiating dialogues around the shifting nature of South Asian politics, economies and landscapes through artists’ film.
Curators: Priya Sen, Sharlene Bamboat
Artists: Faraz Anoushahpour & Parastoo Anoushahpour, Rehana Zaman, Nazli Dinçel, Michelle Williams Gamaker, August Fröhls, Weeda Azim, Oliver Husain