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Cindy Baker’s interdisciplinary and performance work is informed by a fierce commitment to ethical community engagement and critical social inquiry. Drawing from queer, feminist, gender, fat, disability, and art theories, Baker’s research-based practice moves fluently between the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Baker has exhibited and performed across Canada from Victoria, BC to St. John’s, NF, and internationally in cities including Los Angeles, CA, Minneapolis, MN and Kuopio, Finland.
Baker’s practice draws from two decades of experience in artist-run culture, and extensive volunteer work in art and queer communities; she has worked in non-profits throughout Western Canada, particularly Edmonton and Saskatoon. Currently based in Lethbridge, Alberta, Baker has recently completed an MFA at the University of Lethbridge where she held a SSHRC grant for her research in performance and the body, and has just wrapped up The Missing Body, a major city-wide curatorial project about the socially taboo body featuring artists from around the world.
Baker will discuss her thesis work, particularly her interests in performance and the body. Framing this recent work in the context of other notable bodies of her work which led her to these interests, the lecture will span the breadth of her 17-year career.
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca