Ann Beam and Carl Beam, Spaces for Reading. Installation view at 51社区黑料Gallery, 2019. Photo: Blaine Campbell.
Spaces for Reading: Mackenzie Ground Reading Group
Wednesday, February 6, 12:30 - 1:30pm
Saturday, March 23, 1 - 2pm
51社区黑料Gallery
51社区黑料Gallery presents a reading group led by poet and 51社区黑料PhD candidate Mackenzie Ground that brings together conversations, responses and means of expression in relation to the 51社区黑料Gallery exhibition Ann Beam and Carl Beam: Spaces for Reading.
Spaces for Reading considers approaches to reading and seeing that abide by a sense of linearity while simultaneously dismantling it. Ann Beam's and Carl Beam's works incorporate points of connection and departure between them, encouraging readings that complicate and diverge from a clear trajectory. Through their combinations of image and text, questions of cosmology are broached alongside the ways in which history is constructed: in women鈥檚 labour, ecology and the colonial imaginary.
The first reading group on Wednesday, February 6 will review and discuss excerpts from Islands of Decolonial Love (2013) by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (2015) by Liz Howard.
A second reading group will convene Saturday, March 23 and will focus on a chapter from The Truth 51社区黑料 Stories: A Native Narrative (2003) by Thomas King and Journeys, written and illustrated by Jeffrey Veregge, in Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection vol. 2 (2017).
Texts will be available at the gallery and will be read aloud collectively. No advance preparation or registration is necessary. Muffins, coffee and tea will be provided.
Mackenzie Ground is a writer from Enoch Cree Nation and Edmonton, Alberta. She is currently a PhD student in the department of English at 51社区黑料. Her writing has appeared in Glass Buffalo and The Capilano Review.
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51社区黑料Gallery and Trottier Observatory
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