Sovereign Sun (series) 2015 photo emulsion on paper and Indigenous land absorbing the sun and promising a future of self-determination collaboration by artists’ of BUSH gallery.
What: Arts roundtable considers the landscape
Who: Artist and curator Tania Willard and writer Harold Rhenisch
When: Tuesday, December 5, 6pm
Where: Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, 421 Cawston Ave
Artist and curator Tania Willard and writer Harold Rhenisch will be hosting a roundtable discussion exploring the poetics and politics embedded in the landscape at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on December 5 at 6pm. Willard and Rhenisch will each present a 40 minute slideshow of their work before opening up the discussion to questions from the audience. This event is free of charge.
Tania Willard is currently an MFA student at UBC Okanagan and is from the Secwepemc Nation. She will discuss the specificity of place embodied in her collaborative BUSH gallery project, a conceptual space for land-based art and action led by Indigenous artists on reserve. Willard’s curatorial work includes co-curating Beat Nation: Art Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture, a national touring exhibition first presented at Vancouver Art Gallery in 2011 and Unceded Territories: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at the Museum of Anthropology with Karen Duffek.
Harold Rhenisch, who writes the blog Okanagan-Okanogan: one country without borders will introduce a series of concepts built on the foundation of self-as-space, lavishly illustrated with photographs from his journeys through the Okanagan, the Pacific Northwest and Iceland. Rhenisch has written thirty books from the Southern Interior since 1974. He won the George Ryga Prize in 2008 for The Wolves at Evelyn. His other grasslands books are the Cariboo meditation Tom Thompson’s Shack (1999) and the orchard memoir, Out of the Interior.
This discussion is generously supported by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan and the City of Kelowna, and produced in partnership with the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is an artist-run centre located in Kelowna, BC at the Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Avenue. The Alternator is a registered non-profit charitable organization dedicated to the development of the creative community. Since 1989 the Alternator has shown the work of emerging Canadian artists and focused on innovative and non-traditional mediums engaged in social and cultural issues.