Art History: Dr. Cynthia Hammond - Workshop: Safety Strategies: Space, Gender and the City

Presented by: Studio XX and the Department of Art History, Concordia University
Facilitators: Cynthia Hammond & Caroline Alexander

October 22, 2:00-4:00 pm: Studio XX, 4001 Berri- Space 201 & October 23, 2:00-4:00 pm: Concordia University, EV 3.760

What are the personal, spatial, and performative strategies of finding safety in the city? Safety Strategies is a collaborative art project that seeks to critically explore and creatively document how women and self-identified women, trans, members of the LGBTQ community, and women with limited mobility build a sense of safety when traversing Montreal’s urban environments. While cities are often poorly designed and potentially dangerous, they are not unalterable. Spatial Strategies foregrounds the ways in which users negotiate and challenge the gendered dangers of cities.

Participants will be guided through the creation of “memory maps” based on personal experiences when they had to traverse an urban landscape that may have been problematic.

All projects created during these two workshops will be displayed at Studio XX in February 2017 before being returned to the participants.

Open to everyone, free admission, but there is a maximum of 20 participants per workshop. RSVP at ateliers@studioxx.org.