Artistic Production

The Artistic Production group brings together artists working in a range of disciplines, architects, art historians, curators, cultural theorists, museologists and writers to critically reflect on artistic production in today's globalized, de-centered and networked world, and to consider how material production is both informed by, and contributes to, the creation of knowledge, culture and identity.

Discussions and presentations will be particularly attentive to artistic production as a site for the mobilization, production, and dissemination of knowledge, broadly considered.  Some of the questions to be considered include: What is the impact of scholarship on art, cultural theory and literary practices? How are artists, writers, poets and scholars “produced” from within the university system and outside of it? How does research-creation produce particular kinds of knowledge, and how can we further advance the notion of artistic creation as research? How is material culture created and circulated within architectural and gallery environments?  How have developments in new technologies enhanced material culture?

Kelly Thompson (Studio Arts), Organizer

Members:

Ingrid Bachmann: Associate Professor, Fibres, Dept. of Studio Arts; artist and director of the Hexagram-affiliated Institute of Everyday Life, an art-ideas studio/lab that examines the everyday as a site to generate, create and present artworks.

Dr. Kim Sawchuk: Associate Professor, Communication Studies; cultural theorist and editor of the Canadian Journal of Communication.

Kelly Thompson: Assistant Professor, Fibres, Dept. of Studio Arts; artist.

Lorraine Oades: Part-time Faculty, Intermedia Cyberarts, Dept. of Studio Arts; interdisciplinary artist.

Dr. Lisa Vinebaum: Part-time Faculty, MFA Studio Arts; theorist and writer.

Sarah Watson: Ph.D Student, Dept. of Art History; curator and educator.

Kelly Jaclynn Andres: Ph.D student, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities; artist.

Darsha Hannah Hewitt: MA student, Fine Art/Communication; artist.

Emeren Garcia: Head of Touring Exhibitions, Musée d’arts contemporain de Montréal

Marie-Paule MacDonald: Architect, University of Waterloo at Cambridge.

Erin Mouré, Poet, translator and independent scholar