EventsA Conversation with Kama La Mackerel
Ottawa Trans Library (1104 Somerset Street West)
October 17, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Kama La Mackerel / photo by Ashvin Ramdin
Don't miss this free public conversation between artists Kama La Mackerel and Cara Tierney!
Ottawa Trans Library and Carleton University Art Gallery invite you to a free public conversation with Kama La Mackerel – multilingual writer, visual artist, performer, educator and literary translator.
Kama is a firm believer that artist and cultural practices have the power to build resilience, to heal and to act as forms of resistance to the status quo.
This conversation will be moderated by artist, activist and educator Cara Tierney, who will pose questions to Kama around such themes as: building an artistic practice “from scratch,” leveraging artistic practices to build better futures, and queerness / transness and community-building through the arts. Their conversation will be followed by a short Q & A.
Admission is free and everyone is welcome. No advance registration is required
Participants
Kama La Mackerel is a Mauritian-Canadian multilingual writer, visual artist, performer, educator and literary translator who believes in love, justice and self and collective empowerment. Their practice blurs the lines between traditional artistic disciplines to create hybrid aesthetic spaces from which decolonial and queer/trans vocabularies can emerge.
Cara Tierney is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, curator, educator, consultant and community builder. They move between university classrooms, art galleries, cultural institutions and general publics, producing creative educational encounters aimed at stimulating wider discussions on non-normative modes of embodiment, the collective and relational experience of co-producing identities, while fostering sensitive awareness of the relational construction of historically grounded systems of inequity.