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EVENTS
Curator’ s Talk: Can we ever know“* the secret internal stirrings of animals?” or are they inherently unknowable? What does it mean to meet a creature’ s eyes? With differences in communication ability, perception, eyesight, biological priorities, and appropriate responses, how can we be sure of what’ s really going on when we chance upon a wild citizen? Curator Marlaina Buch’ s talk invites participants to toss around ideas about animal encounters and what they can tell us about ourselves. Thursday, August 17th at 6:30pm in the KIAC Ballroom
Tall Tales for Campfires: The Natural & the Manufactured residency artists Lisa Hirmer and Leila Armstrong will be telling tall tales around the campfire at the First Avenue fire pit( at the foot of Princess Street) on Thursday, August 17, starting at 10 pm. Get ready to hear some stories loosely based on local animal encounters and perhaps share some of your own yarns.( Weather permitting. Please feel free to bring your own lawn chairs or blankets for seating.)
Artist Talks & Panel Discussion: The Natural & the Manufactured residency artists Lisa Hirmer and Leila Armstrong will present artist talks followed by a panel discussion with exhibition curator Marlaina Buch on Saturday, August 19, beginning at 7 pm in the KIAC Ballroom. Each artist will give a brief overview of their practice leading up to Tales for Short Nights and Warm Planets, and their work in the exhibition, on display in the ODD Gallery until September 23, 2017
* The Animal That Therefore I Am, Jaques Derrida, 2006.
BIOGRAPHIES
Lisa Hirmer an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans social practice, visual media, performance, community collaboration and experimental forms of publishing. Working under the pseudonym DodoLab, she explores the complicated nature of public opinion and the public life of ideas. In her photo- based work she studies the forces that transform ecological systems and human relationships with the more-thanhuman world. She has shown her work across Canada and internationally including at Confederation Centre of the Arts, Harbourfront Centre, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Peninsula Arts( U. K.),
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