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Steven Loft
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Articulation with Steven Loft
Saturday 17 January 2009
(in English)
Critical writing need not be dependent on academic formalism to be effective. Many authors of critical texts weave personal and communal narratives into their analyses to locate them within cultural and aesthetic frameworks. In this session we will be examining the works of writers such as Paul Chaat-Smith, Loretta Todd, Monika Kin-Gagnon, Megan Tamati-Quennell, and others. Participants will be expected to create writing that draws on their own histories, cultures and personal experiences to examine issues in contemporary art.
Steven Loft is a Mohawk of the Six Nations. He is a curator, writer and media artist. Loft has recently been named as the first Aboriginal Curator-In-Residence at the National Gallery of Canada. He was formerly the Director of the Urban Shaman Gallery (Winnipeg), First Nations Curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Artistic Director of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association. He has written extensively on First Nations art and aesthetics for various magazines, catalogues and arts publications. Loft co-edited Transference, Technology, Tradition: Aboriginal Media and New Media Art, published by the Banff Centre Press in 2005. His video works, which include 2510037901, TAX THIS! and Out of the Darkness have been screened at festivals and galleries across Canada and internationally. He promises to be as pompous and self important in person as this bio makes him out to be.
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Louise Déry
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Articulation with Louise Déry
Saturday 7 February 2009
(in French)
Louise Déry is interested in art writing that is built on a visual and physical relationship with the works themselves, rather than on a historical, methodological and theoretical basis. In her workshop, she will highlight links between the texts of Samuel Beckett and Pascal Quignard and essays published in exhibition catalogues. The essays will be scrutinized for their use of linguistic innovation and for the interpretative possibilities of the work generated by this comparative relationship.
Louise Déry holds a doctorate in art history and has been the director of the Galerie de l'UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) since 1997. An exhibition curator and essayist, she also teaches museology and art history, and has served as curator of many contemporary art exhibition in Canada and in other countries (Dominique Blain, Françoise Sullivan, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Nancy Spero, Jana Sterbak, Sarkis, etc.) and collective exhibition with works by Michael Snow, Daniel Buren, Giuseppe Penone et Melvin Charney.
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Tom Sherman
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Articulation with Tom Sherman
Saturday 28 March 2009
(in English)
This workshop will concentrate on writing in response to technological change. If today's culture and art are shaped to a great extent by digital network technologies, how can artists resist, moderate and exploit the forces of technological determinism? Sherman, a practitioner of technocultural criticism, will stress the importance of systematic observation, precise description and disciplined speculation when trying to get a fresh perspective on overwhelming change.
Tom Sherman is an artist and writer. He works in video, radio and performance, and writes all manner of texts. His interdisciplinary work has been exhibited internationally, including shows at the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Musée d'art contemporain and Festival International des Film sur l'Art (Montréal), Documenta X (Kassel), Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna) and Ars Electronica (Linz). He represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1980. In 2003 he was awarded the Bell Canada Award for excellence in video art. He performs and records with Bernhard Loibner (Vienna) in a group called Nerve Theory. A comprehensive anthology of his writing, Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment, was published by The Banff Centre Press in 2002. Sherman is a professor in the Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University in central New York, but considers the South Shore of Nova Scotia his home.
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