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A playlist of relevant, irrelevant and irreverent videos culled from the wilds of YouTube and curated for your research and pleasure. Works include interviews with artists, documentation of performances and installations, as well as various pieces of ephemera that prompt the question "Is it art or is it not art?" Curated by Migueltzinta Solis.

Canadian visual artist duo Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens will discuss their recent work and some of the modes of operation recurrent in their practice, including materializing social and economic abstractions, engaging in practical experiments developed in workshop like situations, and imagining the world through speculative gestures.

Tyler Los-Jones produces objects and images from his home in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta. The work he has produced over the past decade aims to complicate inherited assumptions of environments by bringing the unnatural aspects of the western conception of nature to the forefront. Los-Jones is fascinated by the role photography plays in the production and the fulfilment of our expectations for environments.

Due to unforseen circumstances Charlotte Huddleston will not be able to speak.

Indigenous Orality Revisited

With popular focus aimed at the next new thing, Mohawk poet, media/sound artist and performance artist, Janet Rogers shares her experience as a spoken word poet and how her current practice honours old traditions. She will share samples of poetry media work and live spoken word pieces as she connects the past with the present.

Treats for Coyote: Visions of Arcadia in the New World

A brief survey of the artistic practice of Mary Anne Barkhouse and how it relates to the human and natural history of Canada, with a special focus on the Indigenous perspective of both.

Educational Modernism or Learning from the Darkroom of Architecture

“Colonial photographic archives & historical literacy in a Canadian context”

Dr. Carol Williams is a Professor in the Department of Women & Gender Studies and the Department of History and the current Director (2017-2020) of the Centre of Oral History and Tradition—at the University of Lethbridge.

Alex studied art and architecture at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo and theUniversity of Rome where he also worked in the offices of Massimilliano Fuksas. In 2010, he left theArchitecture Association School (AA) in London, England to co-found PARTISANS in Toronto. Heis the only Canadian to ever receive the New York Prize Fellowship at the Van Alen Institute in NewYork, and was named a Globe and Mail Catalyst for architecture and design in 2013.

Alex studied art and architecture at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo and theUniversity of Rome where he also worked in the offices of Massimilliano Fuksas. In 2010, he left theArchitecture Association School (AA) in London, England to co-found PARTISANS in Toronto. Heis the only Canadian to ever receive the New York Prize Fellowship at the Van Alen Institute in NewYork, and was named a Globe and Mail Catalyst for architecture and design in 2013.