Ann Hamilton, Untitled (mouth/stones), screen grab, 1993
- Thursday, February 25, 2016
- 6:30pm – 8:00pm
- The Royal Canadian Legion, 227 McDermot Ave.
In her text “Eating Your Words”, Yael Raviv examines the slippage between food as artistic medium and food as culinary medium, through artists who use food in performance. In contemporary culture, food, art and consumption have a conceptual and material relationship that merit debate and conversation.
Reading: Yael Raviv, “Eating My Words: Talking About Food in Performance”
Free! Everyone welcome!
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Originally from Winnipeg, Kirouac is back from a seven-year stint in the US as an exhibiting artist, professor and art fair director/curator. Her projects and installations have been shown in Europe, the US, Canada and the Middle East, and span a wide range of media. Kirouac uses personal revelation and social observation to explore the “performance” of identity and belonging through lenses of cliché, storytelling, mimicry and popular culture. Her 25-year career has been recognized and supported by numerous, diverse grants.