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Orion Lecture Series with artist Manuel Mathieu
The work of this Montreal-based artist exists at the intersection of racial, geographical & cultural identities. Manuel Mathieu holds an MFA from Goldsmith’s College (London). He has exhibited in England, Belgium, China, Canada, the United States, Spain, France, Morocco, and Martinique. His work is part of different collections, such as the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal. While Mathieu’s trajectory may be easily traced to his Haitian upbringing, his work articulates his positionality from a multitude of realities and perspectives. Recent exhibitions include the Perez Art Museum Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal, The Power Plant (Toronto) and in group exhibitions at Musée d’art contemporain of Montreal, the Phi Foundation (Montréal), the Song Museum (Beijing) and the Kunstmuseum (Stuttgart).
Orion Lecture Series with artist Kelly Jazvac
Based in Montréal, this Visual Arts MFA alum is part of The Synthetic Collective—a plastic pollution research team of scientists, artists, philosophers & writers. Kelly Jazvac (b. 1980) is a Canadian artist based in Montréal, Canada. She is also part of a plastic pollution research team called The Synthetic Collective, which includes scientists, artists, art historians, philosophers and writers; the work of this research group is highly influential on Jazvac’s artistic practice. Recent exhibitions include The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, The Musée D’Art Contemporain (Montréal), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Eli and Edyth Broad Museum (East Lansing), Ujazdowski Castle CCA (Warsaw) and FIERMAN Gallery (New York). Her work has been written about in National Geographic, e-flux Journal, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, The New Yorker, Canadian Art Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. Her collaborative art/science research has been published in scientific journals including Nature Reviews, GSA Today, and Science of the Total Environment.
Orion Lecture Series with curator Heather Igliolorte
Dr. Heather Igloliorte (Inuk, Nunatsiavut) holds the University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts and is an associate professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. She also serves as the Special Advisor to the Provost on Advancing Indigenous Knowledges, and in this role contributes to the efforts of the university Indigenous Directions Leadership Group. Her teaching and research interests center on Inuit and other Native North American visual and material culture, circumpolar art studies, performance and media art, the global exhibition of Indigenous arts and culture, and issues of colonization, sovereignty, resistance and resurgence.
Orion Lecture Series with actor Gary Farmer
My Life as a Baby Clown with Gary Farmer, Actor, Filmmaker, Musician, Publisher, and Activist in conversation with Prof. Brian Richmond Gary Farmer is a filmmaker, musician, publisher, activist, and multi-award-nominated actor, who has worked in film, theatre, radio and television. In 1997, he won the Best Actor award at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco for his role in Dead Man. Farmer has received three Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male nominations. Gary Farmer is widely recognized as a pioneer in the development of media for Indigenous peoples in Canada. Farmer launched the magazine Aboriginal Voices in the early 1990s, and in 1998, Farmer founded the Aboriginal Voices Radio Network, that was intended to create FM radio stations on reserves across North America. In this lecture, Gary will discuss his freedom to explore his cultural identity through the performing arts, working with diverse human storylines for better thinking humans since 1975. More information: https://finearts.uvic.ca/theatre/news-events/orion-lecture-series-gary-farmer/

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