<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><img height="54" width="471" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="257B501C-4CA8-41A1-89F6-82BEA6A108F5" src="cid:89F557AB-7EB4-4F3C-8E01-DDF5D2F8B840@uwaterloo.ca"><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">June 2-7</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Performances & Symposium</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Presented by the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and Department of Fine Arts</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">University of Waterloo</span></strong><br><br><a href="http://www.thiscouldbetheplace.org" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">www.thiscouldbetheplace.org</span></strong><br></a><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>This Could Be The Place</em> points towards art’s capacity to revel and flourish in confusion, to operate under apprehension and misdirection. As much a statement as a question, the title suggests unpredictability, disorientation and aimlessness as strategies that can be used to activate, define or repurpose aspects of public spaces while also paralleling the distinctive lack of navigation and means of way-finding within the built environment on campus. <em>This Could Be The Place</em> is a satellite of CAFKA 2014 and was developed in response to the biennial’s theme <em>It should always be this way</em>, which poses a similar question––how to disrupt the everyday by inserting utopian daydreaming, contemplation and curiosity into the ebb and flow of the urban environment.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Visitors are encouraged to meet at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) at 11:30 am each day. Student guides will lead walking tours to each performance site. The weekday performances culminate in a daylong symposium on Saturday, June 7 at UWAG featuring presentations and panel discussions addressing interdisciplinary practices, the politics of public space, and art and performativity as a form of precarious labour.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bojana Videkanic and Ivan Jurakic, Symposium Coordinators</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(221, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">PERFORMANCES: June 2-6</span></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">All performances begin daily at 12:00 pm, rain or shine, in or around the Arts Quad adjacent to the Dana Porter Library.</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Visitors are encouraged to meet at UWAG at 11:30 am daily. Guides will lead walking tours to each performance site.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>June 2:</strong> Lisa Birke, <em>Egg Stock</em></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>June 3:</strong> Jessica Thompson, <em>Swinging Suitcase</em></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>June 4 and 5:</strong> Johannes Zits, <em>Looking For Guides To An Alternative</em></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>June 6:</strong> Terrance Houle, <em>Friend or Foe #4</em></span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(221, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">SYMPOSIUM: June 7</span></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">All panels take place at UWAG, followed by a closing reception at 5:30 pm.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>8:30-9:00:</strong> Coffee and Opening Remarks</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>9:00-10:30:</strong> <em>Immaterial Labour, Performativity & Production of Culture</em></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jessica Wyman, Johanna Householder, Louise Liliefeldt, moderated by Bojana Videkanic</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>10:45-1:00:</strong> <em>Theories of Labour & Cultural Sphere</em></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Greig de Peuter, Colin Campbell, Kathy Kiloh, Michael Maranda, moderated by Aleksandra Kaminska</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>1:00-2:00:</strong> Lunch</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>2:00-4:00:</strong> <em>First Nations’ Contemporary Art, Precarious Labour & De-colonization</em></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wanda Nanibush, Cheryl l’Hirondelle, Suzanne Morrissette, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Franciso-Fernando Granados, moderated by Kole Kilibrada</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>4:00-4:30:</strong> Performance by Adrian A. Stimson</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>4:30-5:30:</strong> <em>This Could Be The Place Artist Panel</em></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Terrance Houle, Jessica Thompson, Lisa Birke, Johannes Zits, Adrian Blackwell, moderated by Ivan Jurakic</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>5:30-7:00:</strong> Closing Reception</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(221, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ADMIT EVERYONE</span></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">All performances and symposium panels are free of charge and open to the public.</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(221, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">UWAG</span></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">East Campus Hall 1239</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fine Arts Office: 519.888.4567 ext. 36923 <a href="http://finearts.uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank">finearts.uwaterloo.ca</a></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Gallery: 519.888.4567 ext. 33575 <a href="http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">uwag.uwaterloo.ca</a></span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(221, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Contact</span></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator, UWAG</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">519.888.4567 ext. 36741</span><br><a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</span></a><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bojana Videkanic, Assistant Professor, Fine Arts</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">519.888.4567 ext. 32614</span><br><a href="mailto:bojana.videkanic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">bojana.videkanic@uwaterloo.ca</span></a><br><br><span style="color: rgb(221, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Driving</span></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">263 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Located in East Campus Hall on Phillip Street off University Avenue West, behind University Plaza</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Use South entrance to ECH across from Engineering 6</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(221, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Parking</span></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Limited meter parking is available behind ECH</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Visitor Parking is available in Lot E6, E5 or Lot B after 3:45 pm</span><br><a href="http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php</span></a><br><br><span style="color: rgb(221, 0, 0);"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mailing</span></strong></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">UW Fine Arts | University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">200 University Avenue West</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This event was made possible with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Connection Grant, University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo Research, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, University of Waterloo Department of Fine Arts, and in collaboration with CAFKA: Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area. <a href="http://www.cafka.org" target="_blank">www.cafka.org</a></span><br></body></html>