EventsJoin a tour of “A Dream of Return” right before the fall launch party
September 29, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Theo Jean Cuthand, "Homelands," 2010, still from a single-channel video, colour, sound, 53:00, courtesy of Vtape.
A unique take on an exhibition tour, with friends!
Come for an exhibition tour at 1:00 and stay for the launch party at 2:30 of A Dream of Return, Jane Martin: The Ties that Bind and Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome!
From 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.: Join an informal conversational tour of A Dream of Return with artists Adeyemi Adegbesan, Nic Cooper, Theo Jean Cuthand, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh and Farouk Kaspaules. Each artist will be posed a question by a guest: curator Pansee Atta and scholars Sarah Phillips Casteel, Salam Hawa and Adam Saulis.
From 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.: Join us for the launch party, which features light refreshments and tunes by MusicByJayel. Opening remarks at 3:00 p.m. (with ASL interpretation).
Access CUAG is an accessible space with barrier-free washrooms and elevator. This event will require moving around the gallery. Light chairs are available. A microphone will be used.
Parking Discount passes ($5.00 flat rate) will be available for purchase from 12:45 – 3:15 p.m. for parking in P18 (the big parkade built over the O-train tracks). Gallery staff will be standing on the sidewalk outside the P18 parkade, right before the entrance.
Thank you This event is supported by the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Carleton University.
Participants
Adeyemi Adegbesan is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist whose practice aims to examine the intersectionality of Black identity. Adegbesan creates Afro-futuristic portraits that embody themes of history, fantasy, speculative futures, and spirituality.
Pansee Atta is an Egyptian-Canadian artist, curator, and researcher who is working to decolonize museums and archives. She received a PhD in Cultural Mediations from Carleton University in 2022.
Sarah Phillips Casteel is Professor of English at Carleton University, where she is cross-appointed to the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture and the Institute of African Studies.
Nic Cooper’s work is concerned with cultural memory and visual histories, reflecting their queer, non-binary and Croatian-Polish identity. Using historical and current images, their recent work investigates public actions across disparate times and locations, connecting the power of community gathering.
Theo Jean Cuthand is an experimental/narrative filmmaker and indie game developer working with sexuality, madness, Indigiqueer/2S identity and Indigeneity. His work has screened in festivals and galleries internationally. He is Plains Cree/Scots, a member of Little Pine First Nation, residing in Toronto.
Salam Hawa is an independent scholar specialising in political theory, and politics of development in the Middle East. She is currently Research Affiliate of the Arab Canadian Studies Research Group (ACAN), University of Ottawa.
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh is a Palestinian artist based on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin land. Her photography, film, and installation works look at issues related to time, space, memory, and movement, offering interventions rooted in a decolonial perspective.
Farouk Kaspaules is an Iraqi Canadian artist of Assyrian origin based in Ottawa. He mixes traditional Arabic iconography with modern symbols to produce works that reflect themes of exile, cultural displacement and related social issues.
Adam Saulis is a Wolastoqewi student at Carleton University currently completing a Combined Honours undergraduate degree in Film and Indigenous Studies. Adam’s interests involve research into the exhibition and distribution of marginalized films, with a particular focus on Indigenous films.
