PROGRAM
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WORLDING TIOHTIÀ:KE/MONTRÉAL:
Bridging Knowledges, Practices, and Beings MONDES DE TIOHTIÀ:KE/MONTRÉAL: Mettre en relation les savoirs, les pratiques et les êtres 31 March-1 April 2023 | 31 mars-1 avril 2023 DAY 1, SESSIONS 1-4 RECORDED HERE DAY 2, SESSIONS 5/6 RECORDED HERE |
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EXHIBITION
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imagining / créer / building / faire / mapping / connaissance /... Curated by Manar Abo Touk, Lorraine Doucet Sisto and Varda Nisar re* offers a counterpoint to colonial histories and archives.The artworks included in the exhibition reimagine and redefine ideas around time, space, land and languages. The works of artists rudi aker, Pansee Atta, Amin Rehman, and Swapnaa Tamhane foreground different possibilities for reclaiming languages and histories, resisting and refuting imposed geographies, and reframing futures and pasts.
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artists
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rudi aker is a wolastoqew auntie, artist, organizer, and curator from St. Mary’s First Nation in Sitansisk (Fredericton, New Brunswick) and, for now, a guest on Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang (Montreal, QC). Their artistic and research practices center relationality, placehood, and visibility, with a focus on the traversal of (un)colonized spaces through conceptions of counter-cartographies and barrier-breaking. Their ongoing research-creation project, topographies of a homeplace, explores the boundaries of cartographic practice through beaded spatial representations – hand-held topographical maps accompanied by historically and personally informed auto-writing on site-specific experiences. This work, in various iterations, has been included in Space, Place, Home (Louise-et-Reuben Cohen Art Gallery), Tactics for Staying Home in Uncertain Times (MSVU Art Gallery), HOST (third space gallery), window winnipeg, these are our monuments (Owens Art Gallery), ehpituwikuwam (Beaverbrook Art Gallery), and [espace variable | placeholder] (La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse).
For more information, visit rudiaker.com |
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Pansee Atta is an Egyptian-Canadian visual artist, curator, and researcher living and working on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabe nation in Ottawa. Using a variety of new media, her work examines themes of representation, migration, archives, and political struggle. Previous residencies include the Impressions Residency Award at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the SparkBox Studio Award, and at the Atelier of Alexandria. Previous exhibitions have taken place in collaboration with SAW Video in Ottawa, at Galerie La Centrale Powerhouse and Z Art Space in Montréal, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, and other contemporary Canadian arts spaces. Her curatorial projects include UTOPIAS, a community-based performance art festival in Kingston, Ontario, and Home/Making, an exhibition at the Canada Council Art Bank. Her ongoing research and activist practice centers community-based responses to colonial projects of collection, display, study.
For more information, visit panseeatta.com |
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Amin Rehman is a multidisciplinary visual artist who has been working since the1980s. Originally fromPakistan, he studied at the historic National College of Arts and the University of Punjab in Lahore. He received a Masters from the University of Windsor, Ontario in 2011. Rehman has exhibited
extensively in a number of exhibitions across Canada, notably Other Histories at the Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery (2008); Hope at the Art Gallery of Regina (2014); A is for… at the McIntosh Gallery at the University of Western Ontario (2012) and White Wash at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, (2011). Rehman received the Canada Council for the Arts Project Grants to Visual Artists in 2014, 2017 and 2021. He also received the prestigious Chalmers Fellowship Award from the Ontario Arts Council twice, once in 2008 and then in 2017. He has received the grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council 11 separate times since 2008. He was honoured with SAVAC’s (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) ‘Artist of the Year Award’ in 2005. Recently, his exhibition the Bleeding Borders was exhibited at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Alberta from November 25, 2021, to March 20, 2022. For more information, visit aminrehman.com |
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Swapnaa Tamhane is an artist, writer, and curator. Her visual practice is dedicated to drawing, making handmade paper, and working with the material histories of cotton and jute. Her interests extend to material culture, and with designer Rashmi Varma, she wrote SĀR: The Essence of Indian Design, Phaidon Press (2016). Curated exhibitions include In Order to Join – the Political in a Historical Moment (2013-2015) an exhibition of global feminisms at Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, and CSMVS, Mumbai, India; HERE: Locating Contemporary Canadian Artists (2017), Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, and CONSTITUTIONS (2021) at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal. She has an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices, Concordia University, where she is currently an Artist-in-Residence. Her artwork and research has been supported by SSHRC, Canada Council for the Arts, and Ontario Arts Council. She was a Research Fellow with the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (2009), and an International Museum Fellow with the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (2013-2014). In 2019, she was the Ontario juror for the Sobey Art Award, and is currently on the board of SAVAC. She has exhibited her work at articule, Montreal; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Serendipity Arts Festival, Panjim; and has held a solo exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. In 2021, she was commissioned by the V&A Dundee, Scotland, to create a body of work around jute histories, which is currently on view.
For more information, tamhane.net |
TEAM
FACULTY MEMBERS
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Alice Ming Wai Jim is Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories in Montreal, Canada. She is co-editor of the journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Brill with Concordia and NYU). Jim is also Adjunct Professor in Graduate Studies at OCAD University, Toronto (2021-2024).
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Dr. Analays Alvarez Hernandez is a Havana-born art historian and independent curator based in Montréal/Tiohti:áke/Mooniyang as an uninvited guest. She has received a bachelor’s degree in Art History (2005) from the Universidad de La Habana, and her doctorate (2015) from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 2019, she is Assistant Professor of Global Art in the Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques at the Université de Montréal.
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May Chew is an Assistant Professor at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and Department of Art History at Concordia University and has received her PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at York University’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts &Technology.
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Maya Rae Oppenheimer joined the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in September 2017 as Assistant Professor in Art History and now works across the Department of Studio Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. Maya holds a PhD in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the London Consortium (University of London).
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Edith-Anne Pageot; Spécialiste des modernismes au Québec et au Canada, Edith-Anne Pageot est professeure au département d’histoire de l’art de l’UQAM. Visant le décentrement épistémologique, ses recherches s’intéressent aux logiques transculturelles et transnationales qui traversent les modes de production et d’exposition des objets d’art et d’artisanat. Elle est membre de l’IREF, du CRILCQ et du CIERA. En collaboration avec une équipe de chercheurs autochtones et allochtones, elle a coréalisé le premier MOOC, en français, sur les arts autochtones, Ohtehra' l'art autochtone aujourd'hui.
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GRADUATE RESEARCH TEAM
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT
David Duhamel is a MA student in art history at Université de Montréal. They completed their bachelor’s degree at UQÀM (Université du Québec à Montréal) in 2021. |
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT & CO-CURATOR OF THE WPC COLLOQUIUM 2023 EXHIBITION
Lorraine Doucet Sisto (she/they) is an Art History MA student at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where she previously completed her BA in Communications. |
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RESEARCH ASSISTANT & CO-CURATOR OF THE WPC COLLOQUIUM 2023 EXHIBITION
Manar Abo Touk (she/her) is a Syrian-born Canadian independent Art Curator and a PhD student in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. Her dissertation project focuses on contemporary Syrian art post 2011. Specifically, it analyzes displacement on diasporic identities through artists in Canada, Germany, and France. Manar’s most recent positions were as the Arts Manager and Curator at Al Riwaq Art Space in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Alberta. |
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RESEARCH COORDINATOR & CO-CURATOR OF THE WPC COLLOQUIUM 2023 EXHIBITION
Varda Nisar (she/her) is a Public Scholar and doctoral candidate in Concordia’s Department of Art History in the Faculty of Fine Arts. She has been actively involved in centering art education and community outreach in her former role as the founder of a children's art festival in Karachi, and later as the head of educational programming for the Karachi Biennale. |
FORMER MEMBERS
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Ashley Raghubir is a MA student in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal and holds a Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Toronto. She is the Winter 2020 Curatorial Intern at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.
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Dr. Barbara Clausen is Associate Professor for contemporary art and performance in the art history department at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) and an independent curator. In 2010 Clausen received her PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria and has over the last ten years curated and collaborated on numerous exhibitions and performance series in Europe as well as North America, including After the Act The (Re)Presentation of Performance Art (2005) and Wieder und Wider / Again and Against: (2006) as well as thet exhibition and performance series Push and Pull I and II (2010-2011) at mumok (Museum of Modern Art Stiftung Ludwig), the Tanzquartier in Vienna as well as TATE Modern in London.
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Felicia F. Leu is currently enrolled as a PhD student in the Department of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She studied Psychology (B.Sc., LMU München), Art History and Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Munich, Vienna and Paris (B.A. & M.A., LMU München).
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AKNOWLEDGMENTS
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CONCEPT & ORGANIZATION
WPC 2023 Montreal Faculty Team Analays Alvarez Hernandez (Université de Montréal) May Chew (Concordia University) Alice Ming Wai Jim (Concordia University) maya rae oppenheimer (Concordia University) Édith-Anne Pageot (Université du Québec à Montréal) WPC 2023 Montreal Research Assistant Team Manar Abo Touk (Concordia University) Lorraine Doucet Sisto (Université du Québec à Montréal) David Duhamel (Université de Montréal) Varda Nisar (Concordia University) Sarah Piché (BFA’21) EAHR PLATFORM (Kate Bursey, Caroline DeFrias, Anne Kim, Meghan Leech, Nadeen Ajaleh) SPONSORS & PARTNERS Worlding Public Cultures WPC 2023 Montreal has been made possible through funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC). We would also like to thank the following at Concordia University for their generous support of the project: Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies Faculty of Fine Arts Associate Dean, Research (MJ Thompson) The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art (Martha Langford and Brenda Dionne) Department of Art History Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories (Alice Ming Wai Jim) FOFA Gallery (Nicole Burisch and Geneviève Wallen) 4th Space (Anna Waclawek and team) Conversations in Contemporary Art (maya rae oppenheimer and Karin Zuppiger) Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) EAHR| Media South South CISSC Working Group Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group (EAHR) |
ABOUT WORLDING PUBLIC CULTURES (WPC)
The Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation project aims to develop a critical art theory and practice-based approach to social innovation, which takes worlding as its central methodology. WPC is the first collaborative research project and platform conceived by the Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange (TrACE) network and funded by a Social Innovation Grant from the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities. WPC INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS TrACE Consortium (Transnational Arts and Culture Exchange) Carleton University (Canada) University of the Arts London (UK) Concordia University (Canada) University of Montreal (Canada) University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada) Heidelberg University (Germany) University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands) WPC Principal Investigators: Paul Goodwin, University of the Arts London, Ming Tiampo, Carleton University, Canada; Wayne Modest, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Monica Juneja, Heidelberg University, Germany; and Alice Ming Wai Jim, Concordia University, Canada. THANK YOU ALSO TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS OBORO Artist-run Centre, as our gracious host for Session 7 and WPC 2023’s closing reception articule artist-run centre Montreal Museum of Fine Arts PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art enuf Canada |
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