Brendan Fernandes, Foe 2008, video installation, photo: courtesy of the artist Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity Editors Jonathan Dewar, Director of Research, Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF), and Ashok Mathur, Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry, Thompson Rivers University, will introduce Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity, which examines the way in which immigrants, minorities and artists relate to the issue of reconciliation. This will be followed by a panel discussion featuring some of the book’s contributors, Jonathan Dewar, Ashok Mathur, Jamelie Hassan, Miriam Jordan and Srimoyee Mitra, moderated by Dr. Pauline Wakeham. This is the inaugural event of The Public Humanities @ Western. Cultivating Canada Book launch Reception Join the contributors to Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation Through the Lens of Cultural Diversity for a reception and receive a free copy of the book. Tour Cree artist Kent Monkman’s installation Théâtre de Cristal, part of the Barocco Nova exhibition. Dr. Cody Barteet: Experiencing the Baroque: Architecture and Urbanism in the Hispanic World C. Cody Barteet is assistant professor of art and architectural history at Western's Department of Visual Arts. His research focuses on Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urbanism in Colonial Latin America and Europe. Dr. Laura Petican: Contemporary Italian Art and the Baroque Laura Petican is an art historian specialized in post-war and contemporary Italian art. She is currently SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Western's Department of Visual Arts, where her research focuses on “baroque-centricity” in contemporary Italian art. Patrick Mahon: Barroco Nova: Neo-Baroque Moves in Contemporary Art Co-curator of Barroco Nova, Mahon is an artist, writer/curator and teacher; he is a professor at Western's Department of Visual Arts. Mahon’s artwork has been exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, and his projects as a curator have been seen throughout Canada. Susan Edelstein: Barroco Nova: Neo-Baroque Moves in Contemporary Art Susan Edelstein is co-curator of the exhibition Barroco Nova and director of ArtLab Gallery at Western's Department of Visual Arts. Edelstein has curated over 80 national and international exhibitions workign with such artists as Shirin Neshat, Jin-me Yoon, Ed Pien, Mariko Mori and Takashi Murukami. Recent projects include Breaking and Entering: The House Cut, Spliced and Haunted, organized with art historian Birdget elliott, and including artists Heather Benning, Iris Haussler, David Hoffos and Wyn Geleynse. her research interests include museum and curatorial practices, visual culture, and the diffusion and reception of art within the gallery context. Edelstein will conduct a tour of the component of Barroco Nova on display at McIntosh Gallery, emphasizing the work of Brendan Fernandes. Kent Monkman: Artist Talk Kent
Monkman is an artist of Cree ancestry who works with a variety of media,
including painting, film/video, performance, and installation. He has had solo
exhibitions at many Canadian museums including the Montreal Museum of Fine Art,
the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Winnipeg Art Gallery, and Art
Gallery of Hamilton. He has participated in various international group
exhibitions including: The American West, at Compton Verney,
Warwickshire, UK, Remember Humanity
at Witte de With, Rotterdam, the 2010
Sydney Biennale, and My Winnipeg
at Maison Rouge, Paris. Monkman has created site-specific performances at
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, The Royal Ontario Museum, and at Compton
Verney. He has also made super 8 film versions of these performances which he
calls “Colonial Art Space Interventions.” His award-winning short film and
video works have been screened at various national and international festivals,
including the 2007 and 2008 Berlinale, and the 2007 Toronto International Film
Festival. Monkman’s work is included in the collections of the National Gallery
of Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Museum London, The Glenbow Museum,
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Art Gallery of
Ontario, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and Vancouver
Art Gallery. He is represented by Bailey
Art Projects, Toronto, Pierre-François Ouellette, Montreal, and Galerie
Florent Tosin, Berlin.
Dr. Juan Suarez: Inside the Hispanic Baroque The Hispanic Baroque: Complexity in the first Atlantic Culture is a multidisciplinary, international research project initiated by Dr. Juan Luis Suárez of Western’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, it involves 35 researchers Australia, Bolivia, Canada, England, Mexico, Spain, and the United States from an array of disciplines—art, anthropology, architecture, computer science, geography, history, maths, music, literature, sociology—who are studying the origin, evolution and transmission of baroque representation and behaviour in the Hispanic world. Suarez will discuss the emergence of the Hispanic Baroque and its development with emphasis on the cultural technologies, conflicting identities and representations. Brendan Fernandes: Neo-Speak Brendan Fernandes's video installation Foe, 2008, is installed at McIntosh Gallery as part of the Barocco Nova exhibition (see image above). Foe depicts the artist learning the accents of his various cultural backgrounds from an acting coach. He reads from Foe, a 1986 novel by South African author J. M. Coetzee. Woven around the existing plot of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, in Coetzee's book the character Friday has been mutilated: his tongue has been removed and he cannot speak. And it is this passage where Crusoe explains this to another character that Fernandez uses in this video. Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in 1989. He completed the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art (2007) and earned his MFA (2005) from The University of Western Ontario. His work will be included in Oh Canada a survey of contemporary Canadian art at MASS MoCa in the spring of 2012. Fernandes was the Ontario representative for the Sobey Art Award in 2010. He is represented by Diaz Contemporary, Toronto www.diazcontemporary.caMcIntosh Fall Programs 2011
Monday October 3, 5:30 to 7:00 P.M. Book launch and panel discussion, Conron Hall, University College
Monday October 3, 7:00 to 8:30 P.M., McIntosh Gallery
Sunday, October 23, 2:00 P.M., John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, room 100
Wednesday October 26, 4:00 P.M. Film Studies, University College, Room 84
Thursday November 3, 12:30 P.M. McIntosh Gallery
Wednesday November 9, 12:30 P.M. McIntosh Gallery
Wednesday, November
16, 8:00 P.M. Film
Studies, University College, Room 84
Sunday November 20, 2:00 P.M., Von Kuster Hall, Music Building
Thursday November 24, 8:00 P.M. John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, room 100
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