<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">The Labour of Curation<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">Panel discussion<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"><span lang="EN-US"><img apple-inline="yes" id="05BFC141-3D6F-4941-AA21-AAA2C27F2BA7" height="257" width="384" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:D2675F42-7D8A-4ADA-930C-230E1C3A76DF@nexus.uwaterloo.ca"></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Helvetica Neue"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11px;">Heather & Ivan Morison, <i>The Cleaving</i>. Nuit Blanche 2015, Exhibition C: <i>The Work of Wind</i>, curated by Christine Shaw. Photo: Javin Lau.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">Wed. March 2, 2016<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">4:00-5:20pm<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span></b></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">East Campus Hall | ECH 1239<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">263 Phillip Street<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">Waterloo, ON<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">Free and open to the public<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">There is increasing attention on labour in contemporary art contexts, from exhibitions about labour to art worker activism. Where, however, does the curator fit in this turn to labour? What is the nature of the work of mounting an exhibition? How might the work that takes place behind the scenes be made visible? What employment patterns characterize the curatorial field? How might the labour of curation be conceptualized and politicized? What is the place of the curator in the wider system of labour relations involved in the presentation of art? And how is the professional status of the curator affected by the diffusion of the terminology of “curation” in the digital era? Join us for a discussion of these questions with curators Ivan Jurakic (UWAG), Srimoyee Mitra (Art Gallery of Windsor), and Christine Shaw (Blackwood Gallery).<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">Panelists<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US">Ivan Jurakic</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> is the Director/Curator of the </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca" style="color: purple;">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</a></span><span lang="EN-US">. He received his MFA from SUNY Buffalo. He has curated numerous exhibitions, sat on the curatorial panel for the 2009 Sobey Art Award, and co-curated Zone C for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013 in Toronto. His writing can be found in numerous gallery publications. He is also a principal of TH&B, an artist collective that collaborates on site-responsive projects addressing the intersection of urban and rural environments. He lives in Hamilton.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US">Srimoyee Mitra</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> is a curator and writer. She has worked as the Art Writer for publications in India such as <i>Time Out Mumbai</i> and <i>Art India Magazine</i>. From 2008-11 she was the Programming Coordinator of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in Toronto. In 2015, she edited <i>Border Cultures</i> (Art Gallery of Windsor/Black Dog Publishing), and her writing has appeared in <i>Scapegoat</i>, <i>Fuse</i>, and <i>C Magazine</i>. She is currently the Curator of Contemporary Art, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.agw.ca" style="color: purple;">Art Gallery of Windsor</a></span><span lang="EN-US">. Her most recent exhibition, <i>Wafaa Bilal: 168:01</i>, is currently on view at the Art Gallery of Windsor. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US">Christine Shaw</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> is Director/Curator of the </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://blackwoodgallery.ca" style="color: purple;">Blackwood Gallery</a></span><span lang="EN-US"> and Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. With a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought from York University, her practice is committed to curatorial experimentation, applied philosophical inquiry, and creative pedagogy. Her recent curatorial projects include <i>The pen moves across the earth</i>… at the Blackwood Gallery; <i>Migrant Choir</i> at the 2015 Venice Biennale; <i>Carlos Amorales: Black Cloud</i> at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery; and <i>The Work of Wind</i>, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-US">Location</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><br>UWAG is located in East Campus Hall on Phillip Street, off University Ave. West, behind University Plaza. Limited visitor parking is available in Lots E6.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">Acknowledgements<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">Sponsored by the </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-arts/index.html" style="color: purple;">Dean of Arts Office</a></span><span lang="EN-US">, Wilfrid Laurier University, this panel is part of an event series organized in conjunction with the course Introduction to Creative Industries in the Department of Communication Studies at Laurier. Special thanks to UWAG for generously hosting this event.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3">Contact<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"><span lang="EN-US">Greig de Peuter, Department of Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University | </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:gdepeuter@wlu.ca" style="color: purple;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">gdepeuter@wlu.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"> </font></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="3"><img apple-inline="yes" id="E89392AE-D916-42F8-9576-5636887050C3" height="28" width="83" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:5E222F7C-0305-4C57-9EE2-3D3C8E34AC50@nexus.uwaterloo.ca"></font></span></div></body></html>