Juicy Couture Panel Discussion
Video edited by Harriet Hume
For the full version of the panel discussion, please contact the gallery: help(dot)me(at)interaccess(dot)org
Saturday, October 18, 2008 2-5pm.
Keynote Speaker: Sharon Alward, Professor, University of Manitoba.
With presentations by:
Rosemary Donegan, Independent Curator, Professor and administrator, Ontario College of Art & Design
Nicholas Brown, MA Art History, York University
Jennifer Slauenwhite, Digital Media Techinican, University of Western Ontario
Tejpal S. Ajji,(Adjunct Curator, Outreach) Justina M. Barnicke, Toronto
Moderators: Jennifer Cherniack, Assistant Curator/Public Programmes Manager and Curator of Beatrice's Centre for Student Affairs
Beatrice Cherniack, Social worker, and the Curator's mother.
Juicy Couture is a panel discussion accompanying the InterAccess Exhibition Beatrice's Centre for Student Affairs, discussing art school culture: the politics and the spaces in-between learning about and making art. The exhibition examines a small group of artists who graduated from the University of Manitoba in the early nineties as a microcosm for art school in general, speaking to the lessons learned both within the formalized structure of the classroom and in those informal exchanges and activities that occur outside of this space.
This panel seeks to broaden the discussion, bringing together professors, students and art school alumni from various institutions to engage in a frank discussion about teaching, learning, and talking their way through art school. This panel discussion speaks to the interactions that make, and/or break the people involved.
About the presenter:
Keynote Speaker: Sharon Alward, Professor, University of Manitoba
Keynote address Sensei: The one who comes before (meditations on the art of teaching in the place without masters.)
He who learns but does not think is lost; he who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. -Confucius.
Suzi Gablik claims that one of the peculiar developments in our Western world is the loss of our sense of the divine side of life, of the power of imagination, myth, dream and vision. Rational and ego based, we have lost the ability to perceive other realities, to move between the worlds, as ancient shamans did. The image of the artist as a maker of objects circulated in a network of art-related institutions like galleries and museums is still the predominant art school paradigm. To encourage emerging artists to blur distinctions between art and life, work outside the gallery system and live a "magical life" is not without risk.
"My research into the bodily dimension of knowledge has led me to explore ritual gestures in an attempt to reassert the connectedness of things. Interested in expanding my experiences of art and mysticism beyond the predominantly Western ideas explored in my earlier works, I began exploiting other cultural practices to challenge ethics, meaning and the role of the artist in the current plural realities. As part of my interest in retrieving cultural practices to reconstitute and redefine ritual and searching for metaphors for the new cultural realities of artists, I began my journey into the traditional martial arts,. From my experiences training in the martial arts I bring to my teaching the certainty that ritual invites the sacred and that in art, martial or otherwise, thousands of techniques become useless in the absence of spirit."
Sharon Alward is a Canadian video/performance artist. Her creative works reference performance art and religious ritual as potential sites for creativity and transformation. She is interested in the feminist investigation of the bodily dimension of knowledge, beauty, awe, ethics, activism and the role of the artist. Sharon's commitment to performance stems from her conviction that an encounter is always more than its description. Her works have been exhibited in Canada, the U.S., U.K., France, Spain and the Netherlands, including the Liverpool Biennial, LACE in Los Angeles, Western Front, the American Film Institute and the National Screen Institute. Sharon has been nominated for an Art Pace Fellowship and a Blizzard Award for best Experimental Film. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, Sharon has been teaching for 23 years at the University of Manitoba, School of Art. She is a Full Professor and a Senior Fellow of St. John's College
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sharon alward = best advisor ever.
karacannibal 1 year ago