缅北强奸

Land, Love and other Resistances:聽A Conversation between Nasrin Himada and Wanda Nanibush

Abstract:
Drawing parallels between land rights, love and resistances enacted through affect, these two writer, scholar, curator, makers find new paths through age old colonial problems.聽

Bios:

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe curator, image and word warrior, and community organizer. Currently, she is the inaugural curator of Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She holds a Master鈥檚 in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto where she has taught graduate courses. Her curatorial projects include Rita Letendre: Fire & Light (Art Gallery of Ontario), Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989 (Art Gallery of Ontario), Sovereign Acts II (Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal), The Fifth World(Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon) and the award-winning KWE: Photography, Sculpture, Video and Performance by Rebecca Belmore (Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto).

Nasrin Himada is a Palestinian writer, editor, and curator based in Tio'tia:ke (Montr茅al), in Kanien'keh谩:ka territory. Her writing on contemporary art has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, Critical Signals, The Funambulist, Fuse Magazine, and MICE Magazine, among others. She is the co-editor of contemptorary.org.

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This public programming initative is organized by Nasrin Himada as part of For Many Returns, a writing and curatorial series focused on poetics, performance, sound and new media.聽

Support for this event is generously donated by Indigenous Studies 缅北强奸, Professor Erin Manning (Director of The SenseLab, Concordia University), Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at 缅北强奸, and Art History & Communication Studies 缅北强奸.
A co-presentation by IGFS, Indigenous Studies, and AHCS Speaker Series.