September 28, 2019, 2:00pm Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Supported by Consulate General of France in Vancouver (note: audio only) Play Here: https://vimeo.com/389274709 -- Françoise Vergès and Olivier Marboeuf on the occurrence and marginalization of black space and black life in the French imaginary…
Sunday, 24 November, 2019 Speakers: kandis Williams, Deanna Bowen, Christina Battle, Keyon gaskin, M. NourbeSe Philip, S*an D. Henry Smith Watch Here: https://vimeo.com/388574359 -- Speakers from the performance and gesture and formal aesthetic panels return for a final Q&A and wrap up discussion…
Sunday, 24 November, 2019 Speaker(s): Kandis Williams, Deanna Bowen, Christina Battle Watch Here: https://vimeo.com/388354353 -- In the final panel of the Bodies Borders Fields symposium, Battle, Bowen and Williams address the formal strategies in their work in relation to the visibility and…
Sunday, 24 November, 2019 Speaker(s): keyon gaskin, M. NourbeSe Philip, Tina Post Watch Here: https://vimeo.com/388346608 -- Considerations of the entanglement of black bodies and blackness as sites for Eurocentric imaginaries of domination and delimiting, and how this is undermined by self…
Sunday, 24 November, 2019 A meal and performance by mouthfeel (S*an D. Henry Smith and Imani Elizabeth Jackson). Documentation of the artists’ culinary and poetic performance considering the colonial legacy of the sea as site of sustenance, genocide and mourning. Watch Here: https://vimeo.com…
Saturday, 23 November, 2019 Speaker(s): Che Gossett (virtually), Charmaine Nelson, Joshua Chambers Letson Moderated by Yaniya Lee Watch Here: https://vimeo.com/388279759 -- A discussion on the politics of Black Trans life and subjectivity within the arc of black liberatory narratives, the formation…
Saturday, 23 November, 2019 Speaker(s): Raymond Boisjoly, Bear Witness, Lillian Allen Moderated by Denise Ryner Watch Here: https://vimeo.com/387804971 -- (note intro is cut out, documentation starts just after the first speaker begins talking) Discussion on how the work of racialized and Indigenous…
Friday, 22 November, 2019 Speaker(s): Krys Verrall and M NourbeSe Philip with Denise Ryner and Yaniya Lee Watch Here: https://vimeo.com/387794997 -- Opening welcome by Trinity Square Video’s artistic director Emily Fitzpatrick (note sound cuts in at 0:42) Group conversation with Krys Verrall, M…
Friday, 22 November, 2019 A live performance by keyon gaskin followed by a short talk. Watch Here: https://vimeo.com/387785839 -- Transcribed text of this event coming soon.
A “simultaneous conversation” took place on August 16, 1967 between seven speakers in Toronto and New York with the cooperation of Bell Telephone Company, the CBC and artscanada magazine (formerly Canadian Art). This cross-border conversation was recorded and published in that year’s October issue…
This article examines how Louise Nevelson’s Dream House sculptures (1972-1973) simultaneously produced and disrupted notions of domesticity. As a series of alternative or non-normative dwellings, the Dream Houses are spaces that indicate a broader potential to reinvent the home. Nevelson’s wooden…