Music and the “Feminized” Peacekeeper at the Canadian War Museum

Presented by Dr. Kip Pegley

March 20th at 12:00 pm in room 126, Jeffery Hall

All museums are designed to shape public opinion and the Canadian War Museum is no exception. Kip Pegley explores how sound contributes to the museum’s compelling historical narratives, narratives designed to persuade visitors that Canadian peacekeepers are unique, benevolent, and critically needed on the international scene, thus justifying the government’s decisions to send its military into dangerous conflict zones.

Bio:

Kip Pegley is an associate professor in the School of Music at Queen’s University with cross-appointments to the Department of Film and Media, the Department of Gender Studies and the Graduate Programme in Cultural Studies. Dr. Pegley is also a researcher at the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research.

NOTE: Dr. Pegley’s presentation will begin at 12:00 pm (30 minutes later than the usual starting time for SPEAKS sessions)

 

A Gender Studies Brown Bag event in collaboration with Cultural Studies

Queen’s Visiting Scholar – ASHOK MATHUR – March 12 – 14, 2013

TUESDAY, MARCH 12TH, 7:30-9:30pm  Dunning Auditorium – Queen’s

Presentation to second year Interdisciplinary Studies class. A question and answer period will be held directly following.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13TH  11:30am-1:30pm – Jeffery Hall, Room 126 – Queen’s

Presentation and seminar discussion on interdisciplinary practice and research creation for the Cultural Studies Speaks.

Copies of Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity will be available for people attending.

THURSDAY, MARCH 14TH, 7:00-8:15pm, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Diversified: The Art Bank and Canadian Culture 7:00-8:15pm
Panel on Art Bank in the 21st Century, with Ashok Mathur, Brendan Fernandes, Andrea Fatona, with Barbara Meneley moderating.

Followed by a reception from 8:15-9:30pm.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

BIO:

Ashok Mathur is Associate Professor in the departments of Visual & Performing Arts, English & Journalism, Communication & New Media at Thompson Rivers University.

Dr. Mathur holds a Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry, and is the director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada (CiCAC).

Mathur’s cultural and academic practice is wide ranging and investigates new models of artistic research and interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly those that pursue a social justice agenda.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

PRINCIPAL’S DEVELOPMENT FUND – VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM

 FILM AND MEDIA

CULTURAL STUDIES

ART HISTORY & ART CONSERVATION

SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL & GRADUATE STUDENTS

QUEEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE

RED HOUSE

Cultural Studies Speaks: Terrance Houle and Adrian Stimson March 21, 2012

Wednesday, March 21 at 11:30-1:30 in Dunning 12

TERRANCE HOULE AND ADRIAN STIMSON: EXPLORING INDIGENOUS MASCULINITIES

This Cultural Studies Speaks event will be an artist talk in which artists Terrance Houle and Adrian Stimson speak to their work, including performance and other medias. Each artist will provide a review of their work, showing video and stills, discussing influences, and speaking to what each attempts to say through his art and what inspires him. Both are interested in issues of Indigenous identity and how it is played out and influenced in a contemporary setting.

 BIOS

Terrance Houle is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary media artist and a member of the Blood Tribe. Involved with Aboriginal communities all his life, he has traveled to reservations throughout North America participating in Powwow dancing along with his native ceremonies. Houle utilizes at his discretion performance, photography, video/film, music and painting. Likewise Houle’s practice includes tools of mass dissemination such as billboards and vinyl bus signage.

A graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design, Terrance Houle received his B.F.A in 2003. His groundbreaking art quickly garnered him significant accolades and opportunities, including the 2003 invitation to participate in the Thematic Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. This Residency focused on 34 international indigenous people exploring issues of colonization and communion. 

Houle received the 2006 Enbridge Emerging Artist Award presented at the Mayors Luncheon for the Arts, City Of Calgary. After receiving many screenings of his short video/film work at the Toronto 2004 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Houle was awarded winner of Best Experimental Film. His work has been exhibited across Canada, Parts of the United States, Australia, Europe and England.

Adrian Stimson is a member of the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in southern Alberta. He is an interdisciplinary artist with a BFA with distinction from the Alberta College of Art & Design and MFA from the University of Saskatchewan.

As an interdisciplinary artist, Adrian’s work includes paintings called Tarred & Feathered Bison utilizing tar and feathers as a contemporary material, which speaks to ideas of punishment and identity and Bison Heart a black graphite and white oil paint series of Bison in the winter time. His installation work utilizes residential school fragments as a post-colonial investigation. He has created “Buffalo Boy,” a character parody of Buffalo Bill. “Buffalo Boy’s Wild West Peep Show”, “Buffalo Boy’s Getting it from 4 directions” and “Buffalo Boy’s Battle of Little Big Horny” are performances that re-signify colonial history.

Adrian was awarded the Blackfoot Visual Arts Award in 2009. The Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003 and the Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 for his human rights and diversity activism in various communities. He currently lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

All events are open to the Queen’s and Kingston Public.

For more information, please contact Jessica Jacobson-Konefall.

jessicajacobsonkonefall@gmail.com 

CUST 802 Professional Development Series:

CULTURAL STUDIES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES

Wednesday, March 14 at 11:30-1:30 in Dunning 12

Beyond SSHRC and OGS: Artist Grants, Funding your Project (Option) and Who’s Paying for the Keynote?

This workshop will cover a range of topics associated with securing resources and funding for community and arts-based grants: how to find them, how to (successfully) apply for them and what ‘other’ avenues can you explore to fund your art and/or community project. Specific funding opportunities through the City of Kingston Arts Fund, OAC, Canada Council, Davies Foundation, and other granting agencies (including more “indie” resources) will be discussed.

Topics to be covered will include: 1) grants for artists; 2) how to get your work into a gallery/ how to secure resources (artists/space/publicity) in order to curate a show and; 3) how to secure resources for events such as conferences or non-arts related research. All practicing artists, Undisciplined 2012 organizers and those considering the CS Project Option, or any other such whim, are especially encouraged to not only attend but join this dialogue.

BIOS

Victoria Millious is a Master’s student in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on the intersections of feminist visual culture and reproductive health. She has worked on behalf of The Sexual Assault Centre of Kingston, Science’44 Student Housing Co-op, Centaur Theatre (Montreal) and Queen’s Cultural Studies to organize numerous community-oriented pilot projects including the Celebrating Reel Women Film Festival and Undisciplined 2011.

Matt Rogalsky is a composer, sound artist and musicologist who since 1985 has presented work regularly in performances and gallery exhibitions across North America and Europe. His academic background includes studies in electroacoustic composition with Martin Bartlett and Barry Truax at Simon Fraser University, and an M.A. from Wesleyan University where he studied composition and sound installation with Ron Kuivila and Alvin Lucier, and researched the musical culture of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. His Ph.D. from City University London (with Simon Emmerson) was a history of the Rainforest series of works by David Tudor, and an investigation of the social networks which made them possible.

Rogalsky’s areas of research include histories, reconstructions and new performances of late 20th century electronic and experimental music.

Cynthia Mykytyshyn is a Masters student of Queen’s University’s Cultural Studies program and associate curator at Wall Space Gallery in Ottawa. She holds a BA from the University of Ottawa with a major in the History and Theory of Art. Her current research looks at the intersection of visual arts and the natural environment, with a focus on contemporary art and its relationship to environmentalist ideology. She is currently working towards an MRP curatorial project that investigates artist representations of ‘nature,’ ‘humanity’ and the complexity of their perceived relationship.

All events are open to the Queen’s and Kingston public.

FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact:

Jessica Jacobson-Konefall

jessicajacobsonkonefall@gmail.com

Publishing and Presenting Your Work: Peer-Reviewed Journals, Artistic and Curatorial Writing

February 29, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CULTURAL STUDIES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES

Wednesday, March 7 at 11:30-1:30 in Dunning 12

Publishing and Presenting Your Work: Submitting to Peer-reviewed Journals and the Genre of Curatorial Writing

This seminar will address the do’s and don’t’s of publishing across academic, artistic, and curatorial domains.

Firstly, Jan Allen will address curatorial writing (and related genres) and the practices/conventions that surround publishing in the visual art and art museum worlds, touching on the dos and don’ts of pitches, contracts and editing. In addition, she will offer a curatorial perspective on crucial steps and factors artists must consider when presenting their work for publication or exhibition.

Secondly, Dr. Blaine Allan will speak from his experience as the managing editor of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, discussing preparation of articles for publication—what to do and what to expect.

Lastly, Jessica Jacobson-Konefall will speak to her experience submitting, revising, and publishing her own work in peer-reviewed academic journals.

Jan Allen is an award-winning curator, a writer and visual artist, and an assistant professor in the Department of Art and in the Cultural Studies Program at Queen’s University, Kingston. She is Chief Curator/Curator of Contemporary Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, where she has developed numerous exhibitions and publications since 1992. Recent projects include Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge: Working Culture (2008), Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control (2010) and Annie Pootoogook: Kinngait Compositions (2011).

Dr. Blaine Allan is a professor in the Film and Media department at Queen’s University.  For a number of years he chaired the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and was its managing editor.

Jessica Jacobson-Konefall is a first-year PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies here at Queen’s. She has published and forthcoming work in such journals as Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology, and AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples among others.

All events are open to the Queen’s and Kingston public.

FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact:

Jessica Jacobson-Konefall

jessicajacobsonkonefall@gmail.com

Occupy Cultural Studies Speaks! February 15, 2012

CULTURAL STUDIES SPEAKS UPCOMING EVENT

Wed. February 15 11:30-1:30 –  Dunning 12.

Round Table General Assembly with participants in the Occupy movement – including Occupy Kingston and Occupy Queen’s.

“Occupy” was named word of the year by Berkeley linguist Geoff Nunberg in 2011. It’s verb and noun, frame of mind and way of life, metaphor and practice. And it’s gone viral. Occupy took a while to get to Queen’s. Now it’s here, it’s contested, and it’s growing, most recently in presentations by visiting Israeli curator Ariella Azoulay and OcQupy Day of Action in the ARC.

Come to this Round Table General Assembly to share and debate about Occupy as concept and as movement. Participant speakers include Job Arnold (Queen’s Cultural Studies), Neale Aziz (Queen’s Sociology), Felicity Monk (Queen’s Political Studies/University of Edinburgh) and Connor Edington (Queen’s Environmental Science).

 Cites:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143265669/occupy-geoff-nunbergs-2011-word-of-the-year

Performance Colette Urban Visiting Queen’s: CS Speaks Event and More!

Art and Ecological Citizenship: Performance Artist Colette Urban

 
Together with the Department of Cultural Studies, Queen’s University Fine Art Program, The Ban Righ Centre for Continuing University Education, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Corridor Culture, Union Gallery and the Screening
Room, The Colette Urban Committee presents artist Colette Urban, visiting Queen’s from February 6-9, 2012.

Colette Urban is an established Canadian artist who has been practicing for over 30 years. For an artist lecture presentation at Sheridan College in 2010 Colette characterized her work as a puree of performance, drawing, costume-making, sculpture, and installation with her most recent performances inspired by the local landscape, and community members.[i] In the documentary about her work, Pretend Not to See Me, she suggests that her creation of the Full Tilt Creative Centre might be her biggest performance to date. Full Tilt, with its artist residencies program and Organic Woofing farm is an intervention that has the potential to become a new kind of institution. It is also an example of Ecological Citizenship connected directly with artist practices. Colette’s art practice continues to adapt and change what art is, expanding her own and other artist’s opportunities as she goes.

 
Day 1.
Tuesday, February 7

Event 1: 12:00-1:00pm, Presentation at Ban Righ Centre for Continuing
University Education, Queen’s University
32 Bader Lane

Lure of the Land: Adventures at Full Tilt

Colette Urban took a chance by reinventing herself at 55 by investing her energy in a farm in Newfoundland. The businesses that she now juggles include an organic market garden, an art residency program, an art gallery, a cottage rental, a painted mat business, a vehicle storage facility and a performance art practice. The challenges are endless and the endeavor fulfilling. The presentation will provide a glimpse into the life and times of an artist at large in the frontier of Newfoundland.

 
Event 2: 3:00-4:30pm, Fine Art Program Artist Talk, Dunning Auditorium
94 University Avenue

Colette Urban will talk about her thirty year art practice.

Day 2.
Wednesday, February 8
Event 3: 11:30-1:30pm, Agnes Etherington Art Centre,
36 University Avenue

Cultural Studies Speaks Session: Art and Environment, a panel with Colette Urban; fieldwork founder, potter and farmer Susie Osler; and PhD candidate in Cultural Studies Lisa Figge. Each presenter will discuss their respective artist practices and how they relate to environment.
Following this event, Colette Urban will be offering feedback to student artists who are presenting their work at Union Gallery (in Stauffer Library), beginning at 2:30pm.

 
Event 4: 7:00-9:00pm, The Screening Room, 120 Princess Street
Beginning at 7:00pm, there will be a performance of Hoot and Screening of Pretend Not to See Me At the Screening Room in downtown Kingston. Q & A to follow with Colette Urban.

BIOS:
Colette Urban is a performance artist, and has taught at various Universities in Canada most recently in London, Ontario, in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Western Ontario. Colette Urban retired in 2007 and moved to Meadows, Newfoundland where she is currently engaged in developing the Full Tilt Creative Centre, a multi-disciplinary artist retreat and exhibition venue.

Susie Osler is the Project Coordinator for fieldwork – a public art project situated in one of the fields on her farm in eastern Ontario. She is also a ceramic artist, writer, and gardener with strong interests in sustainable food systems, farming history, and the land. Susie has a BFA from Emily Carr Institute for Art and Design.

 
All events are open to the Queen’s and Kingston public.
FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact:
Jessica Jacobson-Konefall jessicajacobsonkonefall@gmail.com

Three Events with World-leading Photography Theorist and Critic Ariella Azoulay

Family of Man, Civil Awakening, and Potential History: Three Events with World-leading Photography Theorist and Critic Ariella Azoulay

The Cultural Studies program, with Corridor Culture, the Queen’s University Dunning Trust Program, and The Cultural Studies Speaks Committee present scholar Ariella Azoulay, visiting Queen’s from January 31-February 2, 2012.

Event 1. Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecture: Toward a Visual Declaration of Human Rights – Re-visitng the Family of Man

Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Location: Dunning Hall. 7pm.

Visiting scholar Ariella Azoulay will be presenting this year’s Dunning Trust Lecture, reflecting upon the exhibition The Family of Man.

The exhibition The Family of Man (curator E. Steichen, 1955) was a landmark event in the history of photography and human rights. It was visited by millions of spectators the world over and was an object of critique that has become paradigmatic in the fields of visual culture and critical theory. Ronald Barthes was the leading voice. A contemporary revision of The Family of Man should start with questioning Barthes’ precise and compelling observations and his role as a viewer. In my lecture I will argue that Barthes missed most of what the photographs in the exhibition showed, that what he claimed to see were invisible ideas, and that the hidden ideology he ascribed to the exhibition was similar to Stiechen’s explicit intention in curating it. Instead of granting Steichen the position of an omnipotent author as Barthes did, I propose to pay close attention to the exhibition’s potentialities, and instead of reading the photographs as descriptive statements with universal claims I propose to read them as prescriptive statements claiming universal rights.

Event 2. Corridor Culture: CIVIL AWAKENING: In Conversation with Dorit Naaman

February 1, 2012. Location: Wilson Room.  Central Branch, Kingston Frontenac Public Library, 130 Johnson Street, 7:00pm 

Using recent documentary photography as a sounding board, Israeli writer, curator and filmmaker, Ariella Azoulay discusses new civil languages emerging from the Social Justice Movement in Israel, uprisings in Egypt and Occupy Wall Street.

Event 3. Cultural Studies Speaks: POTENTIAL HISTORY           

Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Location: DUN 12, 11:30-1:30pm

“Potential History” is a workshop, led by Dr. Azoulay on visual citizenship. In Ariella’s own words “The past cannot be changed perhaps, except in this sense: it can be shown to be incomplete, the closures it seemingly imposes can be reopened, dormant potentialities can surface again and transform the present horizon of the political imagination, for the sake of molding a still indeterminate future. In the seminar I will argue that photography and citizenship are important tools in potentializing violent realities and go beyond their logic.

Potential history should be understood here in the dual sense of unrealized possibilities that still motivate and direct the actions of various actors in the past, and of possibilities that may become our own and be reactivated to guide our actions. Potential history is first of all history not shaped by the dominant perspective of sovereign nationalism. Potential history insists on restoring within the order of things a polyphony of civil relations and forms of being-together that exist at any moment in history without being exhausted by sovereign order. The question of potential history will be explored in relation to the two photographic archives that I assembled – Act of State 1967-2007 and From Palestine to Israel 1947-1950.”

 

To learn more about Ariella Azoulay and her work visit: http://cargocollective.com/ariellaAzoulay

 

All events are free and open to the Queen’s and Kingston public.

FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact:

Jessica Jacobson-Konefall

jessicajacobsonkonefall@gmail.com

 

 

Cultural Studies Speaks Event: ‘(official denial) trade value in progress’

Wednesday, January 18 at 11:30-1:30 in Dunning Hall, Rm. 12

Cultural Studies Speaks Event

‘(official denial) trade value in progress’

‘(official denial) trade value in progress,’ initiated by artist Leah Decter and curated by Jaimie Isaac, is an ongoing dialogic project that invites critical exchange about contemporary conditions of settler colonialism, and efforts of decolonization and reconciliation in Canada.

In June of 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued an official “Statement of Apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools.” In September of 2009, in a speech to the G20 Summit he stated of Canada that, “we also have no history of Colonialism.” ‘(official denial) trade value in progress’ appropriates the latter statement, incorporating it into a 12′ x 14′ composite of Hudson Bay blankets that acts as a platform for dialogue. Decter and Isaac, from settler and Indigenous backgrounds respectively, collaborate on the project’s activation inviting written and sewn responses to Harper’s statement from a range of Canadians. Evolving through this engagement as it travels the country, the project becomes a public record of sorts, holding a mirror to both denial and desire.

Leah Decter will present ‘(official denial) trade value in progress’ as part of the Cultural Studies Speaks seminar series 11:30am-1:30pm on January 18th, 2012. Leah’s talk will be followed by an open workshop in the concourse outside Union Gallery from 2-5:00pm. Participation is free and all are invited to attend.

For more info on the project:

http://www.leahdecter.com/official_denial/home.html

Leah Decter is a visual artist whose practice includes installation, sculpture, video and performance. Her work has been exhibited in Canada since 1993, with recent work exhibiting in the US and touring internationally. Leah has worked as a curator, educator and mentor, and has been active in public and socially-engaged work since 1999. She currently makes her home in Winnipeg, having returned in 2006 after many years in Toronto and Vancouver

Jaimie Isaac is a writer, curator, artist and art administrator. She is from Winnipeg, Manitoba and is a member of Sagkeeng First Nation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and an Arts and Cultural Management Certificate from the University of Winnipeg. In 2010, Jaimie enjoyed a time at OCADU attending the MFA program in criticism and curatorial studies. In 2011, she accepted an offer at UBC Okanagan for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies to finish her masters. In the last few years Jaimie has also undertaken two mentorships for curating and writing with two senior curators and writers.

All events are open to the Queen’s and Kingston public.

FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact:

Jessica Jacobson-Konefall

jessicajacobsonkonefall@gmail.com

 

Financial support provided by the Manitoba Arts Council, the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council and Queen’s University

Cultural Studies Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

HIV/AIDS Activism and Community Projects

CULTURAL STUDIES SPEAKS SERIES: UPCOMING EVENT

Wednesday, November 30 at 11:30-1:30 in Ellis 224

HIV/AIDS Activism and Community Projects

This panel will discuss HIV/AIDS Activism and Community Projects. Speakers will focus on the local impacts of HIV/AIDS and community activism, as well as how it has changed over the last 20 years. Panelists include John Greyson, Joseph Babcock, and Colin Hastings. Dr. Mary Louise Adams will moderate the panel.

John Greyson in an Associate Professor in York University’s Department of Film, and is active in various anti-censorship, AIDS, peace and queer activist media projects, including The Olive Project, Deep Dish TV, Blah Blah Blah and AIDS Action Now.

Joseph Babcock is an artist, activist, HIV positive gay man. He is a small town boy that divides his time between urban social justice work and rural artistic exploration. He uses art as a tool to start dialogue, promote healthy conversation and instill ongoing self-care practices.

Colin Hastings is a graduate student in Cultural Studies, who will speak about his experience working at HIV/AIDS Regional Services (HARS) in Kingston as an Educator.

Mary Louise Adams teaches courses on sexuality in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s. She is a board member at HIV/AIDS Regional Services (HARS). In her long distant past she was a member of AIDS Action Now!, a founding board member of CATIE, a safer sex educator for the AIDS Committee of Toronto, and she wrote frequently about activism and other issues related to AIDS and HIV for feminist and lesbian and gay publications. Her interest in the politics of AIDS is, in large part, what led her to grad school.

All events are open to the Queen’s and Kingston public.