Projects
This page features research-creation projects and activities at the University of Alberta.
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Prototypes for Possible Worlds (2019-2020)
Speculative Energy Futures: Prototypes for Possible Worlds was a research-creation exhibition that showcased some of the initial explorations from the first year of a collaborative, interdisciplinary, multi-year project that brings together artists, designers, activists, engineers, policy makers, scientists, humanists, social scientists, Indigenous legal experts and more, to inquire into the complex intersections of climate change and energy transition as interlocking sites of possibility as we imagine/model a range of potential low-carbon just futures.
Immune Nations (2014-2022)
Immune Nations is a collaborative and interdisciplinary initiative that brings together artists, academics, and healthcare professionals in order to explore the complex issues related to the use and distribution of vaccines in the world today.
Zero Gravity International Performance Art SUMMIT (2019)
In these dangerous times we live in, how can performance art rise above it all and allow us to think in new and creative ways, not only as a means of escape, but as a call to action? To address this research question, the Zero Gravity International Performance Art SUMMIT brought together thirty international performance artists from Argentina, Canada, Cuba, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, United Kingdom and United States for a ten-day visual performance event which included a diverse array of gallery and site-specific performances, panels, artist talks, long table discussions and an artistic research workshop intensive in Edmonton (May 10-19, 2019).
Image credit: Dagmar I. Galusnitzer-Smith (DE). ...It's cup for the other (uptime and downtime). Zero Gravity International Performance Art SUMMIT, 2019. Photo Credit: Mat Simpson.
FLUX: Responding to Head and Neck Cancer (2018)
FLUX features the work of artists dedicated to exploring, representing, and recreating the stories, experiences, and embodied knowledge of people recovering from head and neck cancer.
New Maternalisms (2012-2018)
New Maternalisms Redux is the third and last in the New Maternalisms exhibition series (following Toronto 2012 and Santiago 2014). It features five performance and project-based artists drawn from the first two exhibitions: Lenka Clayton, Jess Dobkin, Alejandra Herrera, Courtney Kessel, & Jill Miller.