October 21, 2021
12:00–1:30 pm MST
Panel
Research-Creation
Grad Student Pecha Kucha
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This panel is a chance for grad students to explore and pitch their research-creation work.
Pecha Kucha is a presentation format that shows 20 images, each for 20 seconds.
Moderator:
Banafsheh Mohammadi – Assistant Lecturer, Art and Design, University of Alberta
Presenters:
Dina Bork
Rachel Dunleavy
Alison Humphrey
Tanya Klimp
Eszter Rosta
Zahra Tootonsab
Dina Bork is a PhD Candidate, Anthropology, SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, University of Alberta.
Rachel Dunleavy is currently a student of Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Art Therapy at St. Stephen’s College. As an artist and budding therapist, she resonates with Foucault and Nietzsche’s concept of self-fashioning as a work of art, however she goes one step further to say that the individual themselves is a work of art in progress, or rather a body of artworks, which can only be fully appreciated retrospectively. When viewed as a work of art, the individual’s creative and spiritual expression open and honour the full spectrum of their experiences. For Rachel, creating art has always played a central role in her self-sensemaking process, viewing her life as a work of art, as a creative process, has allowed her to listen to what her life needs and wants rather than pushing it to conform to her ideological commands.
Alison Humphrey is a Vanier Scholar and PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Arts at York University, Alison Humphrey plays with story across drama, digital media, and education. Since starting out as an intern at Marvel Comics, her career has included directing Shakespeare, producing alternate reality games, and writing transmedia television. Her research-creation project Shadowpox is a "citizen science fiction" storyworld co-created with young people on three continents, imagining immunization through a superhero metaphor.
Tanya Klimp, Masters of Painting candidate, is a Canadian artist. Her work involves the intersection of atmosphere and surface; form and spatiality.
Eszter Rosta is an emerging performance and object-based artist based in Edmonton, AB (Amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 Territory), whose embodied and research-creational practice centres on material, duration, and site through intersections of the performative, the dialogic, and collaboration. Current work investigates the aesthetics and affect of mediated performance and encounter, critical and speculative interventions into site-specificities of the digital, and scopophilic structures of mediated spectatorship. Eszter holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Minor in Gender and Women’s Studies and a Bachelor of Education from York University (2019). She has exhibited and performed in Ontario and Alberta, and recently presented works and research in Engaging Creativities: Art in the Pandemic (Royal Society of Canada), the Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, and the Cultural, Social, and Political Thought Graduate Conference (University of Victoria). Eszter is currently an MFA candidate in Intermedia at the University of Alberta, and Research Fellow for the Social Justice + Research-Creation Colaboratory and SPAR²C (Shifting Praxis in Artistic Research/ Research-Creation).
Zahra Tootonsab is a Ph.D. student in the department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She is interested in ecopoetics, ecocriticism, Canadian Literature, and Indigenous studies. Currently, she is working on her research-creation project with her supervisor, Susie O'Brien.