All presentations and workshops will take place on the 5th floor except for the Faculty exhibition (Room 371), Film Screening (Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre), and End-of-day reception (Main Mall)

COFFEE/TEA | 8:30 – 9 am (Room 524)

SESSION 1 | 9 am – 10:20 am

Panel A: Through the Lens (Room 532)

  • Leia Guo (Independent Artist): Lens/Mirror/Plate – Intersections between Glassmaking and Photography

  • Megan Dyck (AUArts): Collage as Everyday Mise en Scène: Fragmentary Bodies, Objects, and the Waking Sensual World

  • Annie Rudd (University of Calgary): Invisible Photographer: Walker Evans, Candid Cameras, and “Vanity”

  • Mitch Kern (AUArts): The Drowning of an Artist

Chair: Lexie Angelo

Panel B: Re-staging Gender (Room 520)

  • Bailey Horton (Athabasca University): Queer Curatorial: Meaningful Engagement with Material Culture

  • Xahra Hafeez (AUArts) with Sana Hafeez: Feminine and Masculine Motifs in the Islamic Design Legacy: Identifying Gendered Patterns to Address Historical Misattribution

  • Ziya Lin (Artist): Hair as Metaphor for Female Subjectivity

Chair: Melanie Hamilton

SESSION 2 | 10:35 – 11:35 am

Panel C: Earth in Art (Room 558)

  • Kara Stone (AUArts): Landfill: Designing for Low-Carbon Pleasures

  • Andrea Lau (Artist): Groundwork:  A Creative Approach to Environmental Data

  • Eveline Kolijn (Artist): Art for Coral Reefs in Crisis

Chair: Mackenzie Kelly-Frère

Panel D: Shifting Forms (Room 520)

  • Lexie Angelo (University of Edinburgh/Calgary): Liminal spaces: emotional engagement with nebulous places in creative writing

  • Ian Fitzgerald (AUArts): Each Mouthful Dripping in its own Rich Creamy Goodness

  • Leah Naicken (University of Calgary):Lines of Action: Exploring Figure Drawing as an Experimental Ethnographic Method

Chair: Yoke Sum Wong

Workshop I : (Room 562)

  • Michele Braun (AUArts): Serious Storytelling: A Pracademic’s Guide to Using Storytelling in the Classroom

SESSION 3 | 11:50 – 12:40

Panel E: Collaborative Making (Room 532)

  • Ashleigh Bartlett and Sarah Nordean (AUArts): The Exchange Project

  • Jodie Stevens and Sarah van Sloten (Artists): Finding Reciprocal/Collaborative/Converging/Overlapping Processes for Making

  • ING Collective - Yilu Xing and Phoenix Ning (AUArts): Reading Chinatown’s Water System through Print

  • Jenna Van Buekenhout (Artist): Quilt-Top Roleplay: Creating the Fabric of Community

Chair: Xahra Hafeez

Workshop 2: Room 560

  • Ada Jaarsma (Mount Royal University) with Guy Obrecht, Elie Buechler, Brenden Ormandy: Set, Setting, Sound: Failures & Emergent Methods

LUNCH | 12:45 – 1:45 (Room 524)

SESSION 4 | 1:45 – 2:45

Panel F: Process and Passage (Room 558)

  • Natalie Gerber (Artist):  Gathering

  • Kurtis Lesick (AUArts): The Failure of Beginning

  • Patricia Lortie (Artist): Skiff: Tracing Memory, Ritual, and Passage

Chair: Rose Wei

Panel G: Network Economies (Room 532)

  • Ashley Scarlett (AUArts): Evidentiary Aesthetics after the Operational Image

  • Christine Tran (AUArts) with Nelanthi Hewa: Academia under the Influencer Creep: Scholarship and “Content”

  • Milena Radzikowska (Mount Royal Univrsity): Mapping Student Journeys to Accessing Mental Health Services

  • Yukun Hao (AUArts): The Digital and the Home: Domesticity, Interface, and Craft

Chair: Kara Stone

Performance: Room 536 (Nb this performance will last till 3 pm)

  • Anna Ugolkova (Artist): Today

SESSION 5 | 3 – 4:15 pm

Panel H: Intertextualities (Room 558)

  • Trevor Stark (University of Calgary): The Weak Politics of Marcel Broodthaers: A Critique of Poetical Economy

  • Stephen Guy (City University, Seattle/Calgary): Coover in the Manosphere: Allegory and Misogyny in “The Hanging of the Schoolmarm”

  • Narges Rezaian (AUArts): Myths and Flesh: Remapping this Monster of Kin

Chair: Adam Carlson

Panel I: Unsettling Colonial Ecologies (Room 562)

  • Troy Patenaude (AUArts): From Thinker to Sage: Art Historical Wisdom, Skill, and Teamwork in a Complex Relational World

  • Gail Hinchliffe (Founder of United Active Living/Artist-Scholar): Living in the Time of Dying

  • Mackenzie Kelly- Frère (AUArts): Damask Herbarium: Banff

  • Geraldine Ysselstein (Artist): Confluence: Mapping myself to the rivers

Chair: Hannah Dubois

Panel J: Reciprocal Pedagogies (Room 520)

  • Naoko Masuda (AUArts): Being and becoming in the design studio: Practicing a practice, practicing for practice, and practicing a shared life (work-in-progress)

  • Zoha Shaukat & Joan Tu (MedULingo): Designing Medical Literacy with Multidisciplinary Collaborations

  • Nurgul Balac (AUArts): Learning History through Making: Ceramic Practice, Citizenship, and Critical Pedagogy in Progress

  • Alishau Diebold (Mount Royal University): Art in Action: Redefining Research through Community Practices

Chair: Sarah Alford

4:30 – 5:20 pm: Film Screening and Discussion (SPLT, Main Mall)

“Terhpi Thâkthâja: Stoney Nakoda, Catharine Whyte and her Museum”

  • Jarret Twoyoungmen (Film-maker/Storyteller, Founder of Nakoda AV Club)

  • Giona Smalleyes (Film-maker/Artist)

  • Cheyenne Bearspaw (Film-maker/Artist)

  • Amanda Foote (University of Calgary)

Discussion Moderator: Nahanni McKay

5: 20 – 7 Main Mall: Drinks Reception

**The timetable is subject to change and will be updated accordingly.