EAHR Game Night!

Unsettling Settlers: Intervention Game by Artist

​Golboo Amani

November 4, 2022, 4-7 PM

Concordia University
1515  Ste Catherine blvd. West
At the Gail Stephen A. Jarislowski Institute for Canadian Art
EV 3.711-3.725 

Free and no registration required! 
Wheelchair accessible.

If you are interested in exploring art and media that disrupt dominant narratives, please join the Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group (EAHR) for a community building Game Night! 

We will be playing Golboo Amani’s Unsettling Settlers: Intervention Game which “aims to interrupt the colonial narrative of Settlers of Catan to employ strategies that strengthen players ability to imagine critical alternatives and practice counter hegemonic narratives of settlement on the landscape.”* Considering Amani’s art game as a “ready-made site of performativity,” Game Night offers a unique and collaborative opportunity for decolonizing through game research.

Together, we will be looking at how this intervention method can confront or re-script colonial narratives and foster inclusive communities. We’ll also roll out upcoming EAHR activities you might be interested in helping out on.

*http://golbooamani.com/Unsettling-Settlers-Intervention-Game

Unsettling Settlers: Intervention game (2020) Installation view at Blackwood Gallery UofT Mississauga. Photo credit: Saša Rajšić

Unsettling Settlers: Intervention game(2019). Installation view Toronto Biennial of Art. Photo credit: Jason Oduro

Drop by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art located on the third floor of the EV building (EV 3.711-3.725) on November 4 between 4:00  pm and 7:00 pm4-7 to play a few rounds, talk about the experience, and learn about decolonizing art history through game play at the same time!. .Game snacks provided of course!

Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR) is a student-driven research community based within the Department of Art History at Concordia University (Montreal, QC). Since summer 2011, EAHR has facilitated opportunities for exchange and creation through a series of programs and events in order to critically engage with issues of ethnic and cultural representation within the visual arts in Canada. EAHR’s activities are made possible with the generous support of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, the Department of Art History, and other partners.