Archive/Counter-Archive 2020 Symposium Keynote: Deanna Bowen

Archive/Counter-Archive

Deanna Bowen | Keynote Berlin, Berlin, moderated by Monika Kin Gagnon 
December 10, 12:00PM - 1:30PM EST | ZOOM | FREE

This keynote involves self-reflection and presentation of two interdependent exhibitions presented at the 2020 Berlin Biennale and the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery September 18 – February 28, 2021. Respectively, "The God of Gods: Berlin, Berlin" and "Black Drones in the Hive" extend critical interventionist research of the White nationalist ambitions that inform Canada’s cultural history and national narrative.

Deanna Bowen is a descendant of two Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneer families from Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta. Bowen’s family history has been the central pivot of her auto-ethnographic interdisciplinary works since the early 1990s. She makes use of a repertoire of artistic gestures in order to define the Black body and trace its presence and movement in place and time. She is a recipient of a 2020 Governor General Award for Visual and Media Arts Award, 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the 2014 William H. Johnson Prize. Her writing, interviews and art works have been published in Canadian Art, The Capilano Review, The Black Prairie Archives, and Transition Magazine. Bowen is editor of the 2019 publication Other Places: Reflections on Media Arts in Canada.

Please note this keynote will not be recorded. There will be ASL interpreters at all Archive/Counter-Archive Symposium public events from <a href="http://deafspectrum.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Deaf Spectrum</a>.

Archive/Counter-Archive is a SSHRC project dedicated to activating and remediating audiovisual archives created by Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), the Black community and People of Colour, womxn, LGBT2Q+ and immigrant communities. With 60+ participants, Archive/Counter-Archive looks to address how political, resistant, and community-based counter-archives disrupt conventional narratives and enrich our histories. <a href="https://counterarchive.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.counterarchive.ca </a>

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