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Home Is...Map and Storytelling Activity
Interdisciplinary Museum Painting Storytelling Visual arts
Date and time
Location
Alberta University of the Arts (formerly Alberta College of Art + Design)
Calgary, AB
Directions: Transit: Take the train to AUArts/Jubilee station and follow directions for AUArts Driving: Park in Jubilee Parkade (pay parking) on top level to access main entrance Illingworth Kerr Gallery (IKG) is located in AUArts Main Mall.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible.
About
Please join us for a mapping and storytelling activity where we invite you to reflect on what home means to you; is it a place on a map? Ancestral origins? Is it shelter? Is it something we choose? A feeling? A person? A community? Can we define home in ways that transcend physical, political, cultural and imaginary boundaries?
There will be a large map printed where participants can use push pins to indicate where they were born, places they've lived and write what home is to them.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition currently on view, Shifting Shelter by Vessna Perunovich and curated by Magda Gonzalez-Mora.
Shifting Shelter establishes a thoughtful introduction to the politics of transcultural migrations in the oscillating global system, at a crossroads where displacement manifests itself as one of the predominant geopolitical characteristics of living generations. Perunovich teaches us how to confront a place in our lifetime where past, present and future have lapsed, understanding the phenomenon of migration as a continuous and dynamic line of destabilization, of rooting and uprooting, which manifest a need to link past with the current. Perunovich’s reflections on her own life and the human condition universally, attempt to counteract and resist the setbacks of the present and offer a key contribution to discourses related to cross-cultural migrations.
image credit: Vessna Perunovich, Shifting Shelter
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Alberta University of the Arts (Illingworth Kerr Gallery)
The Illingworth Kerr Gallery
The Illingworth Kerr Gallery (IKG), as part of Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts), provides a platform for curated exhibitions and other forms of cultural research production, with a focus on contemporary visual culture. A vital part of AUArts’ Office of Research and Academic Affairs, it supports graduate and undergraduate learning, provides a rich mix of public programming, and participates in global dialogue by hosting local, regional and international artists working in a variety of disciplines.