Time: 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Location: : UFV U House (F125)
Shelley Stefan and Michelle LaFlamme to present for Scholarly Sharing Initiative
Save this date and come join us for the first Scholarly Sharing Initiative event for the 2016/17 academic year.
Wednesday September 22, 2016
1:15 – 2:45
Abby U-House
Delicious light lunch provided
Shelley Stefan, Visual Arts Department – Black’s REDress on campus and the power of art for social change
On October 15, 2015 at UFV, the Visual Arts Department, with the support of the Indigenous Affairs Office, installed a one day art piece called the REDress Project, a campus wide art installation citing the work of Winnipeg Metis Artist Jaime Black, where several red dresses were hung in public spaces to bring awareness to the missing and murdered Indigenous girls and women. Join the discussion on how art can be utilized across a variety of platforms to provoke thought, empathy, and social change.
Michelle LaFlamme, English – Murdered and Missing Aboriginal Women: (re)animating the (un)dead
This presentation offers an analysis of three public performances that address Canadian missing and murdered Aboriginal women: FEBRUARY 14th marches, the REDress project and the “Walking with our sisters” installation. Michelle argues that these public performances use corporeality in unique ways in that the murdered and missing women are conflated, the performances signify a particular cosmology and engage the witnesses in kinaesthetic and synaesthetic means in order to address the social justice issues surrounding the absent Aboriginal women’s body. Discussion will be centred around the work of two Aboriginal artists ( Rebecca Belmore and Dana Claxton) who are using photography and corporeality in unique ways. The audience is invited to engage in reading these bodies and considering how corporeality and indigeneity is evoked and signified in light of murdered and missing woman in Canada.
Event Location : UFV U House (F125)
Shelley Stefan and Michelle LaFlamme to present for Scholarly Sharing Initiative
Date(s): Thursday, September 22Time: 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
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