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How do we relate to things are unnamed or unnameable?  What happens at the perceptual limits of human thought, consciousness, and comprehension?  Throughout her practice, Miruna Dragan engages these questions, peeling back at the glimmering edges where language, object, and reason overlap with the unknown.  With an ongoing interest in metaphysics, Dragan’s site-response work reflects themes of dispersion, immanence, and transcendence.  Operating within and between various modes of studio research including drawing, lens-based media, site-specific intervention, and others, she interprets sur

Searching for the Post-contemporary: a report on the 2016 Berlin and Montreal Biennials

Janice Isabel Jackson has sung over 200 world premieres, many works written specifically for her, and performed with contemporary music ensembles and in concert halls around the world – Beijing, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Torino, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Berlin, Johannesburg, Cape Town and more.

Architecture, Past, Present, Future – the condensed version

Robert Del Tredici is a photographer and artist who has been teaching cinema history and the art of animated film at Concordia University in Montreal since the early 1970s. He has also been documenting the nuclear age since 1979. His first book, The People of Three Mile Island, covered America’s worst nuclear accident. His next book, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb, documented the US nuclear weapons complex. In 1987, he founded the Atomic Photographers Guild.

The conference will focus on child language acquisition. A series of sessions and activities will be structured over a three-day time frame.

Mary Kavanagh is an artist and associate professor in the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge.  Since 2005, Kavanagh has researched and documented activities and ephemera at historic and active nuclear sites: her current project Atomic Tourist: Trinity explores nuclear anxiety in the post-Cold War era through interviews with atomic pilgrims at the testing site of the world’s first atomic bomb. Recent explorations in glass, breath and drawing have further addressed the permeable body, vulnerable to imperceptible contaminants and atmospheric fallout.

Screening the best short films from local artists and students.

Maria Z Madacky’s art is rooted in literature and ancient philosophies. Her practice involves investigations into the liminal including unconventional structures of knowledge that mediate the rational and irrational modes of thinking such as mythology, folk tales and rituals; as well as the liminal spaces of the social. Her projects often employ blurring the boundaries between the art and audiences while addressing complex social issues. Maria’s exhibition “Trash Talk”, executed in collaboration with the performance art collective M.E.D.I.U.M.

Admission is free. All are welcome.