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(dis)location: art in a mobile age
February 16, 2019 @ 9:45 am - February 17, 2019 @ 2:00 pm UTC+0
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(dis)location: art in a mobile age
8th Annual Concordia University Undergraduate Art History Conference
February 16th & 17th, 2019
From the movement and appropriation of cultural artefacts within early colonial missions, to the increasing digitization of mediums, museums, and the archive, art objects and their locations of presentation have created much of the basis of what we know as art history today. However, with the overwhelming technological advancements that have taken place over the last century, the world has seen major shifts in global communication, trade, and migration. These shifts, reflected considerably within the art market, have been subject to an array of critiques on power and distribution. Yet these shifts have also inspired the work of many contemporary artists to facilitate and create new virtual connections and spaces for those who had previously been excluded from traditional art spaces. Drawing on issues of representation, mobility, and location, from the past, present, and even the future, the 8th Annual Concordia University Undergraduate Art History Conference, (dis)location, delves into the role of place within art and society; and what follows when bodies and objects are displaced.
Taking place at Concordia University, on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, (dis)location gestures to Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal’s own diverse experience of place; its role in the history of settler colonialism, Quebec Separatism, and its complex relationship to immigration. In line with this, the conference the Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History (CUJAH) encourages scholars, students, and artists to reflect on their own positionality in relation to the creation, distribution and theorisation of art.
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(dis)Location: Art in a Mobile Age Album
Keynote Speaker
Charmaine A. Nelson, Phd
“of a remarkably down-cast Countenance, and a black and copper coloured mixt Complexion”: Fugitive Slave Advertisements and/as Portraiture in late Eighteenth- and early Nineteenth-Century Canada”
Professional Panel
Erica Lehrer, PhD
“Awkward Objects of Genocide: Curatorial Dreams for Communities of Implication”
Elaine Cheasley Paterson, PhD
“Making and migration: Mapping craft with a Victorian needlework banner”
Queer Orientations: A Queering the Map x Wombcxre Workshop
Facilitated by Lucas LaRochelle & Be Heintzman-Hope
FASA Artist Panel: Redefining & Reconsidering Space
Florence Yee, Sandra Volny, Liane Decary-Chen, Lucas LaRochelle, Be Heintzman-Hope
Annotations to Appetite: A Workshop with Lisa Myers
Facilitated by Lisa Myers
Student Panels
Leo Cocar, Petra Höller, Megan K. Quigley, Eva Morrison, Elizabeth Sanders
Itinerary
Saturday, February 16th, 2019
9:45am-10:00am – Introduction to the day
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
Concordia University, EV 3.711, 1515 St. Catherine W., Montreal, QC
Alisa Haugen-Strand, Conference Coordinator
10:00am – 11:00am – Student Panel
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
Concordia University, EV 3.711, 1515 St. Catherine W., Montreal, QC
Leo Cocar, University of British Columbia
“Buddhist Funerals, Dada and The Money Form; Critical Tendencies in Huang Yong Ping’s Oeuvre”
Petra Höller, Concordia University
“cəpcaptíkwɬ: Land Memory Lessons in Defiance of Imposed Settler-Colonial Borders in Michelle Jack’s nsyilxwcən Indigeneities in a Bi-National Controlled Territory (2010)”
11:05am-12:05pm – Student Panel
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
Concordia University, EV 3.711, 1515 St. Catherine W., Montreal, QC
Megan K. Quigley, Concordia University
“Emergent Bodies: Queer renderings of Slow-Scan Television”
Eva Morrison, Concordia University
“Coming from the Margins: Curatorial Strategies and Representing Craft”
Elizabeth Sanders, Concordia University
“Following a Train of Thought: Palimpsests and Media Archeology”
12:30-1:30pm – Professional Panel
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
Concordia University, EV 3.711, 1515 St. Catherine W., Montreal, QC
Erica Lehrer, PhD
Associate Professor, History
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Canada Research Chair in Museum & Heritage Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies
“Awkward Objects of Genocide: Curatorial Dreams for Communities of Implication”
Elaine Cheasley Paterson, PhD
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Fine Arts
Associate Professor , Art History
Member, School of Irish Studies
“Making and migration: Mapping craft with a Victorian needlework banner”
1:30-2:30pm – Lunch Break
Provided by People’s Potato
2:30-4:00pm – Queer Orientations: A Queering the Map x Wombcxre Workshop
Location TBA
Facilitated by Lucas LaRochelle & Be Heintzman-Hope
*R.S.V.P. needed, please contact cujah.events@gmail.com
4:00-5:30pm – FASA Artist Panel: Redefining & Reconsidering Space
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
Concordia University, EV 3.711, 1515 St. Catherine W., Montreal, QC
Florence Yee
Sandra Volny
Liane Décary-Chen
Lucas LaRochelle
Be Heintzman-Hope
5:30-6:00pm – Dinner Break
6:00-7:30pm – Keynote Speaker
Concordia University, EV 1.605, 1515 St. Catherine W., Montreal, QC
Charmaine A. Nelson, Phd
Professor of Art History
McGill University
“of a remarkably down-cast Countenance, and a black and copper coloured mixt
Complexion”: Fugitive Slave Advertisements and/as Portraiture in late Eighteenth- and
early Nineteenth-Century Canada”
7:30-9:00pm – Reception
EV Junction, EV 2.789
Sunday, February 17, 2019
11:00am-2:00pm – Annotations to Appetite: a workshop with Lisa Myers
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
Concordia University, EV 3.711, 1515 St. Catherine W., Montreal, QC
*R.S.V.P. needed, please contact cujah.events@gmail.com