Union Gallery Panel Discussion - Crude Realities: Humanist Art in a 'Post-Everything' World
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Thursday, October 8th, 6:30 pm – followed by a closing reception of the exhibition Abject Nature.
Union Gallery, 1st floor Stauffer Library, Queen’s University
Crude Realities: Humanist Art in a ‘Post-Everything’ World: A panel discussion including artists Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Kathleen Sellars and guest curator York Lethbridge.
The panel will discuss the creative strategies used to represent complex human relationships to nature, to technology, and to each other in contemporary art as it relates to work in the exhibition Abject Nature.
The exhibition Abject Nature combines three recent works by artist duo Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby and is guest curated by York Lethbridge. The work investigates the relationship between humans and animals, and our collective strategies to control and understand the natural world. Duke and Battersby’s current projects tackle complex existential issues using live action and time-lapse video footage, vibrant animations, improvisational song and poetry. Their immersive installation environments also use costumed taxidermy to create elaborate mise-en-scènes for their contemporary fables. Each work takes as its starting point our collective sense of longing for stability and cohesion in a broken world and our weird ways of negotiating with a nature that is now alien to us.
The Union Gallery gratefully acknowledges support for this project from the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund at Queen’s University and the Queen’s Campus Computer Store.
Thursday, October 8th, 6:30 pm – followed by a closing reception of the exhibition Abject Nature.
Union Gallery, 1st floor Stauffer Library, Queen’s University
Crude Realities: Humanist Art in a ‘Post-Everything’ World: A panel discussion including artists Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Kathleen Sellars and guest curator York Lethbridge.
The panel will discuss the creative strategies used to represent complex human relationships to nature, to technology, and to each other in contemporary art as it relates to work in the exhibition Abject Nature.
The exhibition Abject Nature combines three recent works by artist duo Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby and is guest curated by York Lethbridge. The work investigates the relationship between humans and animals, and our collective strategies to control and understand the natural world. Duke and Battersby’s current projects tackle complex existential issues using live action and time-lapse video footage, vibrant animations, improvisational song and poetry. Their immersive installation environments also use costumed taxidermy to create elaborate mise-en-scènes for their contemporary fables. Each work takes as its starting point our collective sense of longing for stability and cohesion in a broken world and our weird ways of negotiating with a nature that is now alien to us.
The Union Gallery gratefully acknowledges support for this project from the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund at Queen’s University and the Queen’s Campus Computer Store.
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