NATALIE LOVELESS
Dr. Natalie S. Loveless is an artist and academic located at the University of Alberta’s Department of Art and Design, where she teaches in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture, directs the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory, and co-leads the Faculty’s Signature Area in Research-Creation. Dr. Loveless teaches contemporary art and theory with a focus on feminist art, performance art, conceptual art, activist art and art-as-social-practice. Her recent books, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation and Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation examine debates surrounding research-creation and its institutionalization, paying particular attention to what it means – and why it matters – to make and teach art research-creationally in the North American university today.
JESSIE BEIER
Jessie Beier is an Edmonton-based teacher, artist, writer, conjurer of strange pedagogies and lead Research Fellow for the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory. Jessie is currently completing her PhD at the University of Alberta, where she also teaches as an undergraduate instructor in the Department of Secondary Education. Working at the intersection between philosophy, artistic production, and radical pedagogy, Jessie’s research-creation practice explores the potential for weird pedagogy to mobilize a break from orthodox referents and habits of repetition, towards more eco-logical modes of thought. Jessie has been hanging out in the CoLAB since 2016 and loves being able to connect with fellow weirdos in the academy!