Rightfully
Yours,
16 November
- 30 December 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday 15 November, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
You
Said That He Said That She Said
Panel Discussion and Curator’s Exhibition Tour
17 Monday December 2007
5:30 pm
Reading Room, Hart House, University of Toronto
You
Said That He Said That She Said will present some of the political
and socio-geographic histories, contexts, and realities specific to the
works included in the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery exhibition Rightfully
Yours,. The panel is composed of historians who will discuss ethnic
and national division using specific case studies; a researcher who
will recount performative strategies used during interviews; and a performance
art historian who looks at the way in which artists use performance
to critically investigate the formation of identity.
Panelists:
Jon
Soske is editor of RaceSci: The History of Race in Science
(www.racesci.org)
and is currently completing his dissertation on “Exchange Between
Zulu and Indian intellectuals in mid-20th Century South Africa.”
Soske’s presentation will discuss issues of geographically defined
racism in South Africa.
Robert
Clegg Austin is a specialist on Albania and Kosovo and has
served as the Tirana-based correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty; as Slovak-based correspondent with the Economist Group of Publications;
and as newswriter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto.
Dr. Austin’s presentation will consider Kosovo as a case study
for differentiating between an ethnic and/or national sense of belonging.
Jessica
Wyman is a writer, curator, and art historian teaching in the
Faculty of Liberal Studies, Ontario College of Art & Design. She edited
the book Pro Forma: visual art/language/text, published by
YYZ Books, and is writing texts on political performance practices and
performance historiography. Wyman’s presentation will consider
the ways in which performance is used by artists to establish and critique
notions of personal and constructed identities.
Christopher
Smith is a doctoral candidate at York University/Ryerson University
conducting research on community conflict generated by the relocation
of a methadone clinic into a rapidly gentrifying downtown Toronto neighborhood.
He will address performative strategies he has employed in interviews
with community residents, and clinic staff and clients, as well as the
processes of suspicion, resentment, confusion, and hostility that arose
during his research investigations.
Moderated
by Tejpal S. Ajji, Curator-in-Residence at the Justina
M. Barnicke Gallery and curator of the exhibition Rightfully Yours,;
he will be present the conceptual framework of the exhibition with particular
attention to strategies of infiltration and impersonation used by the
artists in Rightfully Yours,.
A
tour of the exhibition will follow the panel discussion.
Camille
Turner, Tea with Miss Canadiana at Hart House, University of Toronto,
2007
Tea
with Miss Canadiana
Tuesday 13 November 2007
East Common Room, Hart House
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Please
join the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, in a tea ceremony held in honour of
Miss Canadiana. The reception will mark Miss Canadiana’s first
official visit to the Hart House. She will join the ranks of many dignitaries
who have visited the historic Toronto building.
A.S.M.K.
Assessments, with Dr. Alison S.M. Kobayashi, are scheduled every Tuesday,
12:00 – 3:00 pm for the duration of the exhibition.
During scheduled office hours, Dr. Alison S.M. Kobayashi (Excuse Note
Specialist) will provide official excuse notes.
Sislej
Xhafa, Elegant Sick Bus, 2001, installation and performance, Istanbul
Biennial of Istanbul, Courtesy of artist and Yvon Lambert Paris/New
York, © 2001-2007 Sislej Xhafa
Sislej
Xhafa Artist Talk
‘Shine and Elegance of Clandestine Strength’
Tuesday 30 October 2007
Debates Room, Hart House
7:00 pm
Sislej
Xhafa Undergraduate Student Workshop*
Friday 2 November 2007
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
*Sislej Xhafa will be conducting studio visits and
seminars with local art and architecture students culminating in a group
workshop, Monday 29 October – Friday 2 November 2007, in conjunction
with his participation in Rightfully Yours,.
