Critical Conversations 2021: Natalie Loveless: How to Make Art at the End of the World: Revisited

CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS 2021

Presented by the University of Saskatchewan Art Galleries and Collections 

Inaugural speaker: Prof. Natalie Loveless, University of Alberta

Date: Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021
Time: 7 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Online via Webex
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About this talk
As an intervention into normative scholarly practice, research-creation has gained increasing visibility and validity over the past decade within the academy. Often mobilizing interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, with one foot always firmly grounded in artistic literacies, research-creation asks us to attend, with detail, to the methods we mobilize as well as our modes of output and publication at the level of constitutive form. This talk will return to some of the key provocations laid out in Loveless' 2019 book, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation, and consider what has shifted in the tumultuous years since its publication. 

Speaker's bio
Natalie Loveless is an artist, theorist, and curator. She is an associate professor of contemporary art and theory in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta, located in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan) on Treaty Six territory (Canada), where she also directs the Research-

Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory and co-leads the Faculty of Arts’ Signature Area in Research-Creation. Her recent books, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation (Duke University Press, 2019) and Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation (University of Alberta Press, 2019), examine debates surrounding research-creation and its institutionalization, paying particular attention to what it means, and why it matters, to make and teach art research creationally in the North American university today. She is also co-editor of Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem (Intellect Press, 2020). In 2020, Loveless was elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

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