UWAG + Fine Arts present THIS COULD BE THE PLACE on the Arts Quad, June 2-7

[Jurakic, Ivan]

June 2-7
Performances & Symposium
Presented by the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and Department of Fine Arts
University of Waterloo

www.thiscouldbetheplace.org


This Could Be The Place 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. This Could Be The Place is a satellite of CAFKA 2014 and was developed in response to the biennial’s theme It should always be this way, 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.

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.

Bojana Videkanic and Ivan Jurakic, Symposium Coordinators

PERFORMANCES: June 2-6
All performances begin daily at 12:00 pm, rain or shine, in or around the Arts Quad adjacent to the Dana Porter Library.
Visitors are encouraged to meet at UWAG at 11:30 am daily. Guides will lead walking tours to each performance site.

June 2: Lisa Birke, Egg Stock
June 3: Jessica Thompson, Swinging Suitcase
June 4 and 5: Johannes Zits, Looking For Guides To An Alternative
June 6: Terrance Houle, Friend or Foe #4

SYMPOSIUM: June 7
All panels take place at UWAG, followed by a closing reception at 5:30 pm.

8:30-9:00: Coffee and Opening Remarks
9:00-10:30: Immaterial Labour, Performativity & Production of Culture
Jessica Wyman, Johanna Householder, Louise Liliefeldt, moderated by Bojana Videkanic
10:45-1:00: Theories of Labour & Cultural Sphere
Greig de Peuter, Colin Campbell, Kathy Kiloh, Michael Maranda, moderated by Aleksandra Kaminska
1:00-2:00: Lunch
2:00-4:00: First Nations’ Contemporary Art, Precarious Labour & De-colonization
Wanda Nanibush, Cheryl l’Hirondelle, Suzanne Morrissette, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Franciso-Fernando Granados, moderated by Kole Kilibrada
4:00-4:30: Performance by Adrian A. Stimson
4:30-5:30: This Could Be The Place Artist Panel
Terrance Houle, Jessica Thompson, Lisa Birke, Johannes Zits, Adrian Blackwell, moderated by Ivan Jurakic
5:30-7:00: Closing Reception

ADMIT EVERYONE
All performances and symposium panels are free of charge and open to the public.

UWAG
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall 1239
Fine Arts Office: 519.888.4567 ext. 36923 finearts.uwaterloo.ca
Gallery: 519.888.4567 ext. 33575 uwag.uwaterloo.ca

Contact
Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator, UWAG
519.888.4567 ext. 36741
ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca

Bojana Videkanic, Assistant Professor, Fine Arts
519.888.4567 ext. 32614
bojana.videkanic at uwaterloo.ca

Driving
263 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON
Located in East Campus Hall on Phillip Street off University Avenue West, behind University Plaza
Use South entrance to ECH across from Engineering 6

Parking
Limited meter parking is available behind ECH
Visitor Parking is available in Lot E6, E5 or Lot B after 3:45 pm
http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php

Mailing
UW Fine Arts | University of Waterloo Art Gallery
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

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. www.cafka.org
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