Date & time
Thursday, October 19, 2023
12 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
12 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Workshops & seminars, Arts & culture, Community events
Share this event:
The Future is Wool
Speaker(s)
Celia Pym
Cost
This event is free
Organization
Contact
Where
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex
1515 St. Catherine W.
Room 11.705
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Join us for this week's The Future is Wool speaker series! Please note that from noon to 1 p.m. will be the talk, featuring Celia Pym. Between 1 and 2:30 p.m. will be hands-on mending workshop, led by Meaghan Bissett and Selina Latour.
You can join us in person in the Milieux Seminar Room, Concordia University, EV11.705, 1515 St. Catherine St. W., at Guy, just above Metro: Guy or on Zoom.
It’s open for all, in person or online, join us whatever is comfortable for you.
About the artists :
Meaghan Bissett and Selina Latour began collaborating during their undergraduate degrees at NSCAD University (BFA 2016). Followed by an artist residency in northern Iceland (2017), they refined their collaborative practice to involve sustainable materials and ruminations on the landscape. In Iceland and elsewhere, they go on walks, rearrange things, make lists, and talk about landscape, movement, distance and memory.
Now based in Montreal, the duo have been working towards their respective Master's degrees (Bissett: MA Art Education ‘23, Latour: MFA Fibres and Material Practices), and pursuing studio arts in textiles, performance, and image-based media. Having now collaborated for over 8 years, Bissett and Latour recently pivoted towards socially-engaged and community-oriented artworks and workshops that emphasize the importance of localized crafts and cultural traditions.
This event is part of Campus Sustainability Month at Concordia, a month-long series of sustainability events and activities.