Bev Pike, Chill: Languorous swimming under Arctic ice provides hope for safe comfortable harbour, gouache on paper 2.4 m x 6.1 m
- Thursday, February 20, 2020
- 6:30pm – 8:00pm
- Duke of Kent Legion, 227 McDermot Avenue
In 2007, artist Katie Paterson made audio recordings of retreating Icelandic glaciers into ice records and played them until they melted. Her work expanded knowledge about the kinds of data that patriarchal science considers important. Artist Bev Pike will facilitate a discussion about methods of knowledge-making in climate science.
Reading: Lady Science, “Why We Need a Feminist Climate Science and How We Might Get It”
Free, everyone welcome to attend!
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Bev Pike is a Winnipeg artist known for gigantic immersive paintings of architectural utopias amid climate catastrophe, based on her research into historic shell grottos. Pike’s work is in public art galleries across Canada. She also creates humorous Agony Aunt columns in artist books that are included in international collections.
Photo by Sheila Spence.