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

Thursday, April 12, 2018 16:00to17:30
Arts Building W-215, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G5, CA

Land, Love and other Resistances: 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. 

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’s 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 (Montréal), in Kanien'kehá: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. 

Support for this event is generously donated by Indigenous Studies ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, Professor Erin Manning (Director of The SenseLab, Concordia University), Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, and Art History & Communication Studies ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ.
A co-presentation by IGFS, Indigenous Studies, and AHCS Speaker Series.

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