Date & time
Thursday, November 4, 2021
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Studio arts, Workshops & seminars, Arts & culture
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CiCA hosts Jaret Vadera and Tairone Bastien
Top image: Jaret Vadera, Dollar Store Dragon, from the all that glitters series, 2018, duct tape, mixed tapes and discarded shoe, size 10 ½, Photo: Courtesy the artist.
Bottom image: Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Reveries of an Underground Forest (detail), 2019, carpets, dimensions variable. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Green Art Gallery, Dubai.
On Diasporic Aesthetics: A conversation between artist Jaret Vadera and curator Tairone Bastien about creative methodologies, relational meanings, and diasporic aesthetics.
How can you participate? Register for the Zoom webinar
Have questions? Send them to mayarae.oppenheimer@concordia.ca
Conversations in Contemporary Art is a free event series sponsored by Concordia University's Studio Arts MFA Program. The series provides a unique opportunity to hear artists, designers, critics, writers, educators, and curators share their practice(s) and perspectives.
Jaret Vadera is a transdisciplinary artist whose work examines how images colonize the ways we see the worlds around and within us. Vadera hacks different visual systems, and reconfigures them to rupture, self-destruct, or open up parallel ways of seeing. His work is influenced by decolonial theory, science fiction, and the study of impossible objects.
In parallel, Vadera has worked as a curator, organizer, and writer on projects that focus on art as a catalyst for cultural change. Jaret Vadera is currently based between Brooklyn, New York, and Montreal, Quebec.
Tairone Bastien (he/him) is an independent curator based in Toronto and an Assistant Professor in the Criticism and Curatorial Practice program at Ontario College of Art and Design University. Tairone co-curated the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art in 2019 and is collaborating on the second edition in 2022. From 2011-2016, Tairone established the arts program at Alserkal Avenue and the Alserkal Residency in Dubai, for artists, curators, and researchers in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. From 2005-2010, he was a curator for Performa in New York City, co-organizing the first three editions of the ground-breaking biennial of live performance art. Tairone holds a Master of Art from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York; and a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History with a Minor in Critical Studies in Sexuality from the University of British Columbia.