Monday, 26 November 2012

Special EAHR symposium / Symposium spécial organisé par le EAHR



Diasporic Convergences–Intersecting narratives of migration within South Asia, Africa and Canada

Dear EAHR members,

Please join us Wednesday December 5th 2012, from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. in room EV-3.760 for a special EAHR symposium featuring talks by Jon Soske and Sharlene Bamboat in which they will engage with issues that are related to the South Asian diaspora.
Jon Soske is an Assistant Professor of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, and he will discuss two projects that appeared independently in 2009—South-South: Interruptions & Encounters and Chimurenga 14: “Everyone Has Their Indian”—reflecting on different literary and aesthetic strategies of “mapping” the intersecting histories of Africa and South Asia. Well, not exactly, since the maps in question lead to a different place each time one tries to use them, and when one finally returns to where one started, whether “Africa” or “India,” the meaning of the each term has been enriched and displaced by the other, creating geographies of unlikely inheritance and difficult intimacies.
Sharlene Bamboat is a Toronto-based artist who will be speaking about her film, video and performance practice, in relation to her programming experience for both SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) and the Pleasure Dome Experimental Film & Video Collective. Bamboat will also discuss MONITOR, SAVAC’s annual South Asian experimental film and video program; opening up the archive of work from the last 7 years to speak about the shifting nature of identity markers within the diaspora, as well as shifts in politics within a global context. Her discussion will also address the challenges programmers face within a specific South Asian context in Toronto, as well as the ways in which her curatorial and art practices attempt to push the boundaries of conceptual art.
Diasporic Convergences–Intersecting narratives of migration within South Asia, Africa and Canada has been organized by Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR), a
EAHR’s activities are made possible with the support of The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Department of Art History at Concordia University.

EARH Media Coordinators,

Genevieve Wallen and Sarah C. de Montigny


A FRENCH VERSION WILL FOLLOW

Diasporic Convergences–Intersecting narratives of migration within South Asia, Africa and Canada

Cher membres EAHR,

Veuillez nous joindre le mercredi 5 décembre de 18h30 à 20h00 en la salle EV-3.760 pour ce  symposium spécial organisé par le EAHR. En cet événement les conférenciers Jon Soske et Sharlene Bamboat aborderont de manière critique certaines problématiques liées à la diaspora sud asiatique.

Jon Soske est assistant professeur en histoire et études classiques à l’université McGill et il fera part en sa présentation de deux projets apparus indépendamment en 2009 soit : South-South: Interruptions & Encounters and Chimurenga 14: “Everyone Has Their Indian”. Ces œuvres font une réflexion sur les différentes stratégies littéraires et esthétiques entreprises afin de “cartographier” l’entrecroisement de repères historiques de l’Afrique et l’Asie du Sud. En fait, il ne s’agit pas d’une carte au sens littérale puisque cette cartographie particulière ne mène jamais au même endroit, car lorsqu’un retour au questionnement  initial se fait, que se soit de l’Afrique ou de l’Inde, la définition de chaque terme employé fut enrichi et déraciné par l’autre créant donc, une géographie ayant un héritage singulier et une intimité lourde de sens.
Sharlene Bamboat est une artiste de Toronto qui discutera de ses vidéos et performances en relation avec son expérience en la création d’une programmation pour la SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) et the Pleasure Dome Experimental Film & Video Collective. L’artiste parlera entre autre de MONITOR un événement annuel organisé par la SAVAC qui fait la promotion de films expérimentaux d’artistes originaires de l’Asie du Sud. Elle abordera aussi en sa présentation ses observations concernant l’instabilité des marqueurs identitaires en la diaspora sud asiatique et changements politiques en un contexte global via une investigation des archives de MONITOR. Sharlene Bamboat traitera donc, des défis et enjeux professionnels encourus afin de repousser les limites de l’art conceptuel et l’établissement d’un programme centré sur un contexte sud asiatique à Toronto.
Diasporic Convergences–Intersecting narratives of migration within South Asia, Africa and Canada fut organisé par l’Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR), qui est un mouvement
100% étudiants dont le mandat se centre sur les problématiques de la représentation culturelle en les arts visuels au Canada.

Les activités du EAHR sont possibles grâce au support de l’institue d’études d’art canadien Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky et le département d’histoire de l’art de l’université Concordia.

Coordonnatrices des médias EARH,

Genevieve Wallen et Sarah C. de Montigny


Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Here are some pictures from Marlee Parsons's Psychic Cell Reader performance at ARTX 480 (advanced integrated studio in contemporary art practices) course’s year-end 2012 exhibition.




Monday, 19 November 2012

FYI, event at FOFA

Dear Friends, Colleagues & Professors, 

Do you have questions about your health? 
Are you concerned with the hand heredity has dealt you? 
Do you want to decode the secrets of your future hidden in all of your cells?


Join renowned Psychic Cell Reader Marlee Parsons as she shares her insights with the Montreal Community. From a sample of cells donated by the client, the cellular analysis will illuminate the client's health future. From Nov 26 through Dec 7 drop into her cell reading clinic for a consultation, graciously hosted by FOFA Gallery.


Clinic hours:
Mon 26 12:30-1:30
Tues 27 3:30-4:30
Wed 28 12:45-1:45
Thurs 29 4:00-5:00

Mon 3 12:30-1:30
Tues 4 12:30-1:30
Wed 5 12:45-1:45
Finissage - Fri 7 5:00-6:00


"Combine" at the FOFA gallery includes 17 works, the "best of" Concordia's Undergraduate Fine Arts Students. Located in the ground floor of the EV Building, Concordia University at the corner of McKay & Ste Catherine Ouest.http://fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/01exhibitions.htm





Have a great week.
Media coordinator - Sarah C.

A glimpse of Melissa Aytenfisu's vernissage.


A glimpse of Melissa Aytenfisu's vernissage.




                                       
                                 





                                       



I would like to congratulate Melissa for her great work. I also would like to thank her for allowing me to fully participate on the conception her first solo show! It was a nice and warm event. Friends, family and others came to give their support and appreciate her talent. Congrats! I wish you a great continuation.

Geneviève media coordianator

Thursday, 15 November 2012

Artist Talk with Lani Maestro

As announced earlier this week, next week there will be a guest lecture initiated by the Concordia University Art History Department in collaboration with EAHR. Come in great numbers this should be very interesting. 

Artist Talk w/ Lani Maestro
Tuesday November 20th, 2:00 p.m., Rm. EV 3.760

Filipina Canadian visual artist, Lani Maestro is the 2012 recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist. Maestro will be discussing her art practice, which spans over 25 years.





Have a great week, 
EARH Media Coordinator,

 Sarah de Montigny

Sunday, 11 November 2012

FYI

Artist Talk w/ Lani Maestro

Tuesday November 20th, 2:00 p.m., Rm. EV 3.760 -Initiated by the Art History Dept. in collaboration with EAHR.

Filipina Canadian visual artist, Lani Maestro is the 2012 recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist. Maestro will be discussing her art practice, which spans over 25 years.

More infos about the artist:
http://www.canadianart.ca/news/2012/11/01/hnatyshyn/
http://plugin.org/exhibitions/2011/lani-maestro-her-rain

Monday, 5 November 2012

Melissa Aytenfisu Exhibition

Dear EAHR followers it is our pleasure to announce the first solo exhibition of our friend Melissa Atenfysu which runs from November 4th to December 1st. The vernissage is this Sunday November 11th !!!



Melissa Aytenfisu’s most recent exhibition of paintings, drawings, digital prints and photographs makes a sharp inquiry on the notion of mobility in the 21st century. The various components of the installation flow seamlessly together, bound by their common focus on human migration, both individual and collective. Some of the works convey physical or literal aspects of human mobility; others illuminate more abstract concepts of change within social, cultural and economic hierarchies. Throughout her works, Aytenfisu weaves a common thread that allows the spectators to understand mobility as both a challenging and transformative feature of the human experience.

The exhibition is born out of Aytenfisu’s personal migration experiences which have in turn made her further aware of others experiences. Rooted in Edmonton Alberta, where she was born and raised, Aytenfisu was transplanted to Montreal, where she has studied and worked for much of the last ten years. A two year stint as a teacher and artist in Macau, China, along with several visits to her ancestral home of Ethiopia further molded her perspectives on place and identity. In both its subjects and themes, Aytenfisu’s artwork has been organically suffused with the rich worldview which she developed as a consequence of her own mobility.

Throughout the Mobility series, Aytenfisu invites the spectator to share the beauty and engage with the energy of her subjects as they perform various forms of mobility. She also challenges the viewer to understand, and perhaps question, the contemporary global paradigms which either promote or inhibit human mobility across social, cultural and economic barriers.