Date & time
Friday, February 20, 2015 –
Saturday, April 18, 2015 (all day)
Saturday, April 18, 2015 (all day)
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World of Matter: Exposing Resource Ecologies
The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery plays host to seven works from the international art and media project World of Matter
Cost
This event is free
Organization
Contact
514-848-2424 ext. 4778
Where
McConnell Library Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
Room LB-165
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Opening: Friday, February 20, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Mabe Bethônico, Ursula Biemann + Paulo Tavares, Frauke Huber + Uwe H. Martin, Peter Mörtenböck + Helge Mooshammer, Judy Price, Lonnie van Brummelen + Siebren de Haan
Exposing Resource Ecologies brings together seven works produced by World of Matter, an international art and media project investigating primary materials (fossil, mineral, agrarian, maritime) and the complex ecologies in which they are embedded. Initiated by an interdisciplinary group of visual practitioners and theorists, World of Matter responds to the urgent need for new forms of representation that shift resource-related debates from a market driven domain to open platforms for engaged public discourse.
Ten collaborators have developed visual projects that are the result of long-term investigative fieldwork of the interconnected extractive ecologies at play in particular sites around the world, as well as their multifaceted impact on human and non-human lives and systems. Videos, interviews, testimonies and narratives, documents, maps and texts are configured as installations in the gallery space and form a complex interaction of critical documentary analysis and speculations addressing our relationship to (and definitions of) nature.
Organized by Krista Lynes and Michèle Thériault with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum, Canada Council for the Arts, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and Pro Helvetia
WORLD OF MATTER Extractive Ecologies and Unceded Terrains (symposium)
This is an important event combination of an international symposium and an exhibition addressing resource ecologies taking place at Concordia and beginning on February 20. At the core of the dual event is World of Matter, an international art and media project investigating primary materials (fossil, mineral, agrarian, maritime) and the complex ecologies in which they are embedded. Initiated by an interdisciplinary group of visual practitioners and theorists, World of Matter responds to the urgent need for new forms of representation that shift resource-related debates from a market driven domain to open platforms for engaged public discourse.
Initiated by Krista Lynes (Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies, Associate Professor in Communication Studies, Concordia University) the symposium is co-organized with Darin Barney (Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship, Associate Professor in Communication Studies, McGill University) while the exhibition is organized by Michèle Thériault at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
More information on the Extractive Ecologies and Unceded Terrains symposium.