THIS COULD BE THE PLACE: Performance Art Symposium June 4-9 @ University of Waterloo

[Jurakic, Ivan]

Golboo Amani
Johanna Householder
Abedar Kamgari
Lisa Myers
Lala Raščić

THIS COULD BE THE PLACE
Performance Art + Airstream Trailer = Action
June 4-9, 2018

Presented by University of Waterloo Art Gallery + UW Fine Arts
University of Waterloo Arts Quad across from Dana Porter Library


This Could Be The Place continues the trajectory of presenting challenging and contemplative performance art on campus using a vintage Airstream trailer as a staging area. Prior events hosted in 2014 and 2016, respectively addressed themes relating to precarity and borders. This third iteration responds to our sense of facing a state of emergency on a daily basis. Five artists have been invited to respond to this theme by addressing the notion of care as a form of restorative cultural labour. What kinds of aesthetic, social, and political practices can we enact to encourage and empower diverse communities to listen, exchange and cooperate in a media-saturated global context mired by environmental, political and cultural crisis? It is our belief that modest acts of care and compassion on a local level lead to positive outcomes that go some way towards enabling a better tomorrow. Bojana Videkanic & Ivan Jurakic, co-curators


MONDAY JUNE 4 @ NOON
Abedar Kamgari_Untitled
Food has always been integral to my relationship with cultural identity. Diet, of course, can change based on a variety of factors, ranging from income and free time to climate, health and availability. Turmeric is a staple spice in my traditional cuisine, but one that I gradually stopped using after coming to Canada – for fear of its characteristic smell marking my body. In this experimental performance, I play with turmeric as a tool for claiming space for brown bodies in public space and within institutions. // Abedar Kamgari is an artist, independent curator, and arts worker based in Hamilton and Toronto.


TUESDAY JUNE 5 @ NOON
Golboo Amani_Public Reading
Public Reading is a performance work that engages with audiences in an intimate shared experience. The artist travels through public space with a small library of collected books. Participants pick a book from the library for the artist to read out loud to them. // Golboo Amani is a multi-disciplinary artist best known for her performance and social practice works. She is based in Toronto.


WEDNESDAY JUNE 6 @ NOON
Lisa Myers_Playing Spoons
A sound interpretation using the two blueprint profiles of the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline. One blueprint from 1800s and the other an altered version, marking places without train stations and often left off maps. This performance with bass guitar and guitar will accompany an acknowledgement of the maps, and the very place of this artwork. // Lisa Myers is an independent curator and artist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. She is a member of Beausoleil First Nation and is based in Port Severn and Toronto.


THURSDAY JUNE 7 @ NOON
Johanna Householder_Holocene Days
We live in uncertain times, so uncertain we don’t know what to call them: the Holocence, Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Chthulucene? The conversation around the current epoch from a quasi-scientific perspective can assist humans in the critically needed repositioning of ourselves as only one of many animalia on the planet. In order to rethink our selves in relation to the land and its discontents, I propose listening for relationships while conceiving alternative futures and presents. // Johanna Householder works in video, performance art, and audio. She is the Chair of Cross-Disciplinary Art Practices at OCAD University and lives in Toronto.


FRIDAY JUNE 8 @ NOON
Lala Raščić_The Damned Dam
The Damned Dam is a storytelling performance inspired by a true story. The plot is set to 2027. Through verse we follow the young engineer Tarik, his beloved Merima, and a fantastical love story, rooted in research of actual localities and events. The Damned Dam opens up issues of a transitional reality, the iconography of disaster, the relationship between capitalism and corruption, between cause and effect; the consequential relationship between past and future, emancipation and justice, escapism into fiction, dam as border, Bosnian epic poetry as epic from the border, and the dam as its metaphor. // Lala Raščić is a multidisciplinary media and performance artist who divides her time between Sarajevo, Zagreb, and New Orleans.


SATURDAY JUNE 9 @ 11:00 AM
Symposium_University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall 1239
11:00_Panel Discussion moderated by Bojana Videkanic
• Elwood Jimmy, Program Coordinator, Musagetes Foundation, Guelph
• Crystal Mowry, Senior Curator, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
• Katja Praznik, Assistant Professor, Arts Management, SUNY Buffalo
• Jasmina Tumas, Assistant Professor, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, SUNY Buffalo
• Sonja Zlatanova, Performance artist, board member La Centrale, Montreal
12:30_Lunch Break + A Second Hand Emotion performance by Tess Martens
13:30_This Could Be The Place Artist Roundtable 1
14:30_CAFKA.18 Artist Roundtable 2


ADMIT EVERYONE
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall 1239
519.888.4567 ext. 33575
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CONTACT
Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator
519.888.4567 ext. 36741
ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca <mailto:ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca>

FIND US
University of Waterloo Central Campus
200 University Avenue West
Look for the Airstream trailer between Dana Porter Arts Library (LIB)
across from Modern Languages (ML)
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PARKING
Visitor Parking is available in Lot B, C or Q for a flat rate of $5
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FOLLOW US
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DRIVING
263 Phillip Street, Waterloo
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located across from Engineering 6



THIS COULD BE THE PLACE has been made possible with the generous support of the Region of Waterloo ARTS FUND and Musagetes Foundation. The event is a co-presentation of the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and UW Fine Arts, in cooperation with CAFKA.18: Recognize Everyone.

Images (left to right): Golboo Amani, Public Reading, 2015. Photo: Manolo Lugo. Johanna Householder, Avian Symposium, 2017. Photo: Naomi Kennedy.



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Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Driving: 263 Phillip Street, Waterloo
Mailing: 200 University Avenue West,
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
519.888.4567 ext. 36741
ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca
uwag.uwaterloo.ca
facebook.com/uwag.waterloo




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