Mapping Cultural Belonging – An exhibition that examines the construction of the self through in a globalized digital age, where culture is no longer defined by territorial boundaries.
Featuring works by: Shahrzad Amin, Hans Bobanovits, Kandis Friesen, Keivan Khademi Shamami, Ronak Kordestani, and Cardy Lai.
Please join us for the vernissage and artist talk for Mapping Cultural Belonging, on
Tuesday March 20th 2012, from 4:00 – 5:30 pm in room EV-3.760. The exhibition is presented in the Vitrine of the 3rd floor of the EV building from March 15 – April 15, 2012.
Tuesday March 20th 2012, from 4:00 – 5:30 pm in room EV-3.760. The exhibition is presented in the Vitrine of the 3rd floor of the EV building from March 15 – April 15, 2012.
This exhibition examines the construction of the self through language, place and policy. In a globalized digital age, culture is no longer defined by territorial boundaries but through the intersection of multiple histories. The works in this exhibition are the products of six Concordia undergraduate students, and they express how each artist negotiates belonging to their family, ancestry, and city of residence. The works engage in the struggle to articulate linguistic and cultural identities. They transcend physical and geographical boundaries by means of adaptation, transnationalism and hybridity.
Mapping Cultural Belonging is curated by EAHR (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research work group), a 100% student-driven work group that engages with issues of cultural representation in the visual arts. The curatorial team is comprised of eleven EAHR members currently studying Art History and/or Fine Arts: Carolina Garcia Amatos ▫ Rajee Jejishergill ▫ Adrienne Johnson ▫ Hearyung Kim ▫ Katerina Korola ▫ Sally Lee ▫ Marlee Parsons ▫ Emma Siemens-Adolphe ▫ Genevieve Wallen ▫ Brittany Watson. While the exhibition meets the pedagogical requirements of Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim’s art history course, ARTH 389 (Issues in Ethnocultural Art Histories: Race, Citizenship and Art in Canada), it also provides an opportunity for the participants to gain professional experience.
For more information on Mapping Cultural Belonging please contact EAHR coordinators Adrienne Johnson and Sally Lee and at ethnoculturalarts@gmail.com
EAHR’s activities are made possible by the financial support of The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Department of Art History at Concordia University.
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