Exhibition
May 16 — June 10, 2023
FAB Gallery
1–1 Fine Arts Building
University of Alberta
Symposium
Wednesday, May 17
and Thursday, May 18
10:00am—4:00pm
FAB Corner Stage
Fine Arts Building
University of Alberta
FREE AND OPEN
TO THE PUBLIC
Opening Reception
Tuesday, May 16, 7:00—9:00pm, at FAB Gallery
Performance Lectures
Wednesday, May 17, 4:00—5:30pm, at FAB Gallery
The Colonizers’ Model of Modelling: Sourayan Mookerjea
Sensuous Geographies: Christine (cricri) Belleros (performer); Sarah West (photographer)
Keynote Performance
Peter & Jimmie’s Love Songs to End Colonization
Thursday, May 18, 4:00—5:30 pm, at FAB Gallery
The Institution of Knowledge Exhibition showcases research-in-action performances and installations that investigate the structures of knowledge currently configuring cultural and educational institutions, and that work to highlight forms of knowledge that have historically been excised from such spaces. Each work in this exhibition suggests that, if we are to avoid re-inscribing Euro-Western colonial logics and hierarchies, those of us who work within contemporary institutions of knowledge must reorient our practices in ways that are radically relational, situated, and responsively accountable to not only which knowledges and bodies are included but to how such bodies remake the pathways through which knowledge is developed and shared.
Featured Artists: Freya Zinovieff, Marilyn Arsem, Zoe Todd, Peter Morin & Jimmie Kilpatrick, Stephanie Loveless, Christine (cricri) Bellerose & Sarah West, Sourayan Mookerjea, Paola Poletto & David Gauntlett, and Sono-(soro)ridades Collective (Amanda Gutiérrez, Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda, Laura Balboa, Victoria Polti, Ana Alfonsina Mora, Freya Zinovieff)
For more on The Institution of Knowledge Project, visit the KIAS website.
The Institution of Knowledge is a research-creation exhibition and symposium organized by Geoffrey Rockwell (the Kule Institute for Advanced Study) and Natalie Loveless (the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory). This project is also made possible with support from Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina SK, and the Department of Drama, the Department of Art & Design, and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.
