Art, Activism & Global Crisis: Rachel Epp Buller - Slow Art for Fast Times
Rachel Epp Buller is the March guest in the Art, Activism & Global Crisis series co-presented by SPAR²C and CoLAB.
Click here to register for all events featuring Rachel Epp Bueller.
Artist Talk: Slow Art for Fast Times
Thursday, March 11, 20201. 5-7pm MST
In this presentation, Rachel Epp Buller will discuss a range of slow strategies deployed by contemporary artists who seek to be more attentive and attuned to our human and more-than-human worlds. Sharing work by international artists as well as from her own practice, she will talk about the positioning of slowness as a radical act of care and listening, a vehicle for collaboration, a tool for environmental engagement and activism, and a necessary component of resistance in long-haul movements for social justice.
Workshop: Listening Across Time through Epistolary Praxis
March 12 & 19, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm MST
Letters are an invitation to listen, a taking time to take care.
In this two-part workshop, we will engage with slow time and intentional listening by creating a series of letters and letter-based artworks or performances, in past, present, and future contexts. Each day will include slow exercises, epistolary assignments, and time to write, make, and share, individually or in collaboration.
Summary of Workshop Sessions:
Limit 15 participants. Register by March 5th
Friday, March 12, 10am–1pm MST: Through group exercises and individual practice we will listen to the past, engaging history and memory through epistolary forms.
Saturday–Monday: Participants will write letters in a present context, listening either individually or in collaboration / correspondence. Documentation of letters will be uploaded by Tuesday morning.
Wednesday–Thursday: Participants will review the work uploaded by their peers
Friday, March 19, 10am–1pm MST: As we imagine listening to future worlds together, participants will write / create / present letters that urgently need to be written
Dr. Rachel Epp Buller (US) is a feminist art historian visual artist professor and mother of three. Much of her artistic, written, and curatorial work addresses the maternal body and feminist care in contemporary art contexts, and she privileges collaboration across disciplines and geographies. Her current writing and artistic research explores attentiveness and listening through slow practices, with a particular focus on letter-writing as an act of relational care and a radical intervention into forms of academic scholarship. She is also a certified practitioner in Deep Listening.
