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CERAMICS CONFERENCE 2015
GUEST ARTISTS
KC Adams
Keynote Address
Valerie Metcalfe
Visiting Artist: Lecture and
Studio Demonstrations
Linda Sormin
Visiting Artist: Lecture and
Studio Demonstrations
Tam Irving
Closing Address
EXHIBITIONS
1000 Miles Apart Exhibition
ARTlab, Room 460
University of Manitoba
MUD, Hands, fire
School of Art Gallery
ARTlab, University of Manitoba
HEAT: Zachari Logan,
Grace Nickel, Osvaldo Yero
Actual Contemporary
300 Ross Ave., Winnipeg, MB
Kelli Rey: Manitoba Monotypes
Manitoba Craft Council
70 Arthur St., Winnipeg, MB
INFORMATION
All events are open to everyone
and free of charge.
Contact: Grace Nickel
Grace.Nickel@umanitoba.ca
School of Art
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2
http://j.mp/1000milesapart
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA | OCTOBER 1 TO 3, 2015
SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS
University of Manitoba Ceramics Club
University of Manitoba Conference Sponsorship Program
Students of Fine Arts
School of Art, University of Manitoba
Actual Contemporary
ValerieMetcalfe,LargeVasewithWaxResistPainting
LindaSormin,InstallationDetail
TamIrving,VesselKCAdams,BirchBarkLtd.
Poster Designed by Sam Li

CERAMICS CONFERENCE 2015
UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA | OCTOBER 1 TO 3, 2015
ValerieMetcalfe,LargeVasewithWaxResistPainting
LindaSormin,InstallationDetail
TamIrving,VesselKCAdams,BirchBarkLtd.
University of Manitoba Ceramics Club
University of Manitoba Conference Sponsorship Program
Students of Fine Arts
School of Art, University of Manitoba
Actual Contemporary
The Benefits Planning Group
Brochure designed by Sam Li
SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS
Students will compete in a series of timed clay challenges
Friday, October 2, 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. Ceramics and Sculpture Building
Trophies for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place made by Heather Lepp
Students only, including MFA students
Drop off is at the registration desk:
Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2, 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. Ceramics and
Sculpture Building
Submissions open to all, including community members and out-of-town guests
Last call for entries is Friday, October 2 at 10:00 a.m.
Auction closes on Friday, October 2 at 4:45 p.m. – winning bids announced and
works claimed – all proceeds go to the University of Manitoba Ceramics Club
Students are asked to bring a piece for the Brown Paper Bag Exchange. Any piece
that fits in a brown paper lunch bag will be accepted. Everyone who brings a piece
takes a piece.
Drop off at the registration desk:
Thursday, October 1 from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. Ceramics and Sculpture Building
We will provide you with a number and an information card to fill out with your
name and school to put inside the bags.
Exchange will take place over lunchtime on Thursday, October 1 from 12:00 noon to
1:30 p.m.
CLAY
OLYMPICS
SILENT
AUCTION
BROWN PAPER BAG
EXCHANGE
Manitoba Monoprints New work by Kelli Rey
October 2-30, 2015 . Opening Friday, October 2, 5-9 pm
Manitoba Craft Council . 553-70 Arthur St. Winnipeg
Tam Irving
Closing Address
Saturday, October 3, 2015 | 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Rm. 136 ARTlab | Reception to follow
Tam Irving is participating in the exhibition
Mud, Hands, Fire. Wheel Thrown: The Legacy of
Canadian Studio Pottery, curated by Mary Ann
Steggles. The exhibition runs from October 1 to
December 18, 2015, in the School of Art Gallery,
University of Manitoba. The opening reception
and catalogue launch for Mud, Hands, Fire will
take place on Friday, October 2, 5:00 p.m.
Tam Irving is an educator and studio potter
based in West Vancouver. He is a founding
member and impetus behind the formation
of the Northwest Ceramics Foundation
in Vancouver. After obtaining a degree in
Agriculture from the University of Scotland in
Edinburgh and working as a chemist for Shell
Canada, he became a production potter. He
began to teach in ceramics at the Vancouver
School of Art/Emily Carr University in 1973,
retiring in 1996 to return to his own practice.
He has exhibited widely including in Thrown:
Influences and Intentions of West Coast
Ceramics at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art
Gallery at UBC in 2004, and the solo exhibition
Transitions of a Still Life at the Burnaby Art
Gallery in 2007. He has written for Contact
Magazine and Studio Potter. His work is in the
collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum,
London; the Canadian Museum of Civilization,
Hull; the Gardiner Museum, Toronto; the
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo; and
the Surrey Art Gallery in Surrey.
GUEST
ARTISTSK C A D A M S • T A M I R V I N G • V A L E R I E M E T C A L F E • L I N D A S O R M I N
KC
ADAMS
KC Adams
Keynote Address: Art and Activism | Thursday, October 1, 2015 | 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. | Rm. 136 ARTlab
KC Adams will discuss her art practice, which serves as a catalyst for social change. She will talk about
her recent work Perception, a portrait series that challenges racial slurs routinely directed at Canada’s
aboriginal population.
“Raised in a culture that emphasizes the wonders of technology yet still romanticizes nature and the
natural world, I make sense of our present and future through my work. I start with an idea and then
choose a medium that best represents that idea. In the past I have worked in video, installation, drawing,
painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and kinetic art.” —KC Adams
Winnipeg-based artist KC Adams graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She
has been in numerous solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, and was included in the Photoquai: Biennale
des images du monde in Paris, France. She has participated in national and international residencies and
her work is in several collections including twenty works in the National Gallery of Canada. She was the set
designer for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Going Home Star: Truth and Reconciliation and a recent recipient
of the City of Winnipeg’s Making a Mark Award.
TAM
IRVING

Valerie Metcalfe
Studio Demonstrations and Lecture
Thursday, October 1, 2015
9:30 to 10:45 a.m. | Studio Demonstration | Ceramics
and Sculpture Building
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon | Lecture | Rm. 364 ARTlab
Friday, October 2, 2015
9:30 to 10:45 a.m. | Studio Demonstration | Ceramics
and Sculpture Building
3:00 to 4:45 p.m. | Dual Studio Demonstrations
Ceramics and Sculpture Building
“I fell in love with making pots 43 years ago in art school
and have luckily managed to sell enough of them to
continue making them. My inspiration comes from
working. It’s a mysterious process, but the more I work,
the more ideas come.” —Valerie Metcalfe
In her lecture Valerie Metcalfe will show an overview
of her work produced through her long and esteemed
career. She will also talk about the cooperative gallery and
studio, Stoneware Gallery, which she helped establish,
and the challenges of making one’s living as a potter. In
her studio demonstrations she will focus on creating the
large wheel-thrown forms she is known for.
Valerie Metcalfe graduated from the University of
Manitoba in 1974 with an honours degree in Fine Arts.
In 1978 she helped found the Stoneware Gallery and the
Stoneware Studio. Valerie’s specialty is refined, wheel-
thrown porcelain. Her pieces have been exhibited and
sold across Canada and the United States and are held in
public and private collections around the world. In 1994
she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art
and she is currently profiled in Who’s Who in Canada.
Over the years Valerie Metcalfe has enjoyed sharing her
knowledge with and having the company of hundreds of
students in classes and visiting artist’s workshops.
Linda Sormin
Studio Demonstrations and Lecture
Thursday, October 1, 2015
1:30 to 3:00 p.m. | Studio Demonstration | Ceramics and
Sculpture Building
3:15 to 4:45 p.m. | Studio Demonstration
Friday, October 2, 2015
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon Lecture | Rm. 364 ARTlab
3:00 to 4:45 p.m. | Dual Studio Demonstrations
LINDA
SORMIN
“The site looms above and veers past, willing me to compromise, to give ground. I roll and pinch the thing into place, I collect and lay offerings at
its feet. This architecture melts and leans, hoarding objects in its folds. It lurches and dares you to approach, it tears cloth and flesh, it collapses with
the brush of a hand. Nothing is thrown away. This immigrant lives in fear of waste. I examine how to be nomadic, to move across different cultures,
to expand and shrink oneself as needed, to make/shift home. New work invites encounters with cultural and familial ghosts: raw clay is pulled and
stretched through clusters of objects and discarded stuff.” —Linda Sormin
Linda Sormin will present an informal talk, sharing images and discussing her recent work, process, and ideas. For her interactive studio
demonstrations, she asks attendees to feel welcome to bring and donate kitsch ceramics, discarded or broken sculpture, and large-scale trash
objects to incorporate into her assemblages that she refers to as “intricate explosions.”
Linda Sormin is a Toronto-based artist. Through objects and site-specific installations, her work explores issues of fragility, aggression, mobility
and survival. Born in Bangkok, she moved to Canada with her family at the age of five. Sormin studied English Literature and Ceramics at Andrews
University (BA 1993), Sheridan College (Ceramics Diploma 2001), and Alfred University (MFA 2003). She worked in grassroots community
development and the international business sector in Laos (1994–97).
Sormin’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in the Virginia McClure Ceramic Biennial, Centre des arts visuals
(Montreal); Jakarta Ceramics Biennial, National Gallery of Indonesia (Indonesia); Ceramic Top 40, Harvard Gallery 224 (Boston); Jane Hartsook Gallery
(New York, NY); West Norway Museum of Decorative Art (Bergen, Norway); Denver Art Museum (Denver); and gl Holtegaard (Denmark).
Sormin has taught ceramics since 2003 – at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, Sheridan College, and will
begin her position as Associate Professor at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, in January 2016.
VALERIE
METCALFE
OUTLINET H U R S D A Y , O C T O B E R 1 • F R I D A Y , O C T O B E R 2 • S A T U R D A Y , O C T O B E R 3
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1
9:00 a.m. – REGISTRATION at the Ceramic
Studio entrance, Ceramics and Sculpture
Building
Pick up your conference package and swag
bag, refreshments
Ongoing – DIGITAL SCHOOL
PRESENTATIONS: University of Manitoba,
University of Regina, Lakehead University,
Alberta College of Art and Design, Red
Deer College, Ceramics and Sculpture
Building
9:30 to 10:45 a.m. – VALERIE METCALFE,
Studio Demonstration, Ceramics and
Sculpture Building
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon – VALERIE
METCALFE, lecture, rm. 364 ARTlab
12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. – LUNCH on your
own, bidding on Silent Auction artworks
1:30 to 3:00 p.m. – LINDA SORMIN, Studio
Demonstration, Ceramics and Sculpture
Building
3:00 to 3:15 p.m. – COFFEE BREAK,
bidding on Silent Auction artworks, Brown
Paper Bag Exchange
3:15 to 4:45 p.m. – LINDA SORMIN, Studio
Demonstration, Ceramics and Sculpture
Building
5:00 to 6:00 p.m. – OPENING RECEPTION
of the 1000 Miles Apart Exhibition 2015 –
Students, Faculty and Visiting Artists, rm.
460 ARTlab
6:00 to 7:30 p.m. – DINNER on your own,
campus locations recommended
7:30 to 8:30 p.m. – KC ADAMS, keynote
address, rm. 136 ARTlab
9:00 p.m. to midnight – SOCIAL EVENT
with live music, The Hub, University Centre
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2
9:00 a.m. – REFRESHMENTS
Ongoing – DIGITAL SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS, University of Manitoba, University of
Regina, Red Deer College, Alberta College of Art and Design, Lakehead University,
9:30 to 10:45 a.m. – VALERIE METCALFE, Studio Demonstration, Ceramics and
Sculpture Building
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon – LINDA SORMIN, lecture, rm. 364 ARTlab
12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. – LUNCH on your own, bidding on Silent Auction artworks
1:30 to 2:45 p.m. – CLAY OLYMPICS, students compete in a series of timed clay
challenges and PASSING OF THE TORCH to Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, hosting
1000 Miles Apart in 2016, Ceramics and Sculpture Building
2:45 to 3:00 p.m. – COFFEE BREAK, bidding on Silent Auction artworks
3:00 to 4:45 p.m. – VALERIE METCALFE and LINDA SORMIN, Dual Demonstrations,
4:45 p.m. – SILENT AUCTION winners announced, works picked up
5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. – OPENING RECEPTION and exhibition catalogue launch of
Mud, Hands, Fire. Wheel Thrown: The Legacy of Canadian Studio Pottery, School of Art
Gallery, ARTlab
DINNER on your own, downtown Exchange District recommended
Evening – DOWNTOWN EXHIBITIONS in the Exchange District including HEAT (Zachari
Logan, Grace Nickel, Osvaldo Yero) at Actual Contemporary, 300 Ross Ave. and Kelli
Rey: Manitoba Monoprints, Manitoba Craft Council, Rm. 553 – 70 Arthur St., both open
until 9:00 p.m.
9:00 p.m. – SOCIAL EVENT, King’s Head Pub, 120 King St. (Exchange District)
First Fridays in the Exchange (http://firstfridayswinnipeg.org/)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3
10:00 to 11:00 a.m. – TAM IRVING, closing address, rm. 136, ARTlab, RECEPTION to
follow
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon – TAKEDOWN of 1000 Miles Apart Exhibition 2015 by
participating schools
– Students, Faculty and Visiting Artists –
Room 460, ARTlab
180 Dafoe Road
Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 1, 2015 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition will be on view during the
1000 Miles Apart Conference
from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
on Thursday, October 1, 2015
and Friday, October 2, 2015
OSVALDO YERO
H E AT:
3 methods
3 directions
3 artists working with ceramics
ZACHARI LOGAN
GRACE NICKEL
OSVALDO YERO
HEAT
Actual
Contemporary
September 5
to October 31,
2015
300 Ross Ave.
Winnipeg, MB
R3A 0L4
Open for First
Fridays,
October 2 from
12:00 noon to
9:00 p.m.
CONFERENCE

JUNE 3 – JUNE 12
W I N N I P E G F E S T I V A L
EVENTSEVENTSFRIDAY JUNE 3
REEL PRIDE: BEST INTERNATIONAL
GLBTTQ COMMERCIALS
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Cost: $10
Location: Bandwidth Theatre,
587 Ellice Ave.
The annual fundraiser for Winnipeg’s
GLBTTQ Film Festival, this year’s best
commercials from around the world will
make you laugh, make you cry, and make
you think ------ don’t miss this fun night
that highlights the queer community
through advertising. 2 SHOWS!
www.reelpride.org
2
SATURDAY JUNE 4
PITCH FOR PRIDE
BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
Time: 9:00AM - 8ish PM
Cost: FREE to Watch;
Registration is $100 per team
Location: Old Exhibition Grounds,
Dufferin and Sinclair Street
Pitch for Pride! A fun softball tournament
for all skill levels! Food and drinks for sale
with all proceeds going to the SOMS.
10 people per team. Looking for a
team to join
RAIN DATE: 2016/06/05
Contact Allen at Club 200 for more info:
(204) 943-6045 or club200@mts.net
PRIDE WINNIPEG FESTIVAL • 2016
FRIDAY JUNE 3
GLBTTQ COMMERCIALS
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Cost: $10
587 Ellice Ave.
www.reelpride.org
SATURDAY JUNE 4
PITCH FOR PRIDE
BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
team to join
RAIN DATE: 2016/06/05
(204) 943-6045 or club200@mts.net
THE 2ND (LOOKS LIKE IT’S ANNUAL!)
OTHERS’ DAY SALE
Time: 10:00AM – 4:00PM
Cost: FREE
Location: 170 Scott St.
Mom’s got a day… So does Dad… Well,
here’s one for the others that support you
as you walk through life! Find the perfect
art for your special other. Kick off Pride
Week by supporting the activities of SOSA
and our emerging artists!
PRIDE GOLF
Time: 1:30PM – 10:30PM
Cost: $80 before May 16;
$90 after May 16
Location: Southside Golf Course
Join us for an afternoon and evening
of fun! 9 holes of golf (Texas scramble),
contests, prizes, dinner and dance, with an
incredible auction! Golfers of all abilities
welcome! Presented by RONA, 775 Panet.
All proceeds to RRC.
www. rainbowresourcecentre.org/golf
PRIDE OF THE PRAIRIES 3
OTHERS’ DAY SALE
Time: 10:00AM – 4:00PM
Cost: FREE
PRIDE GOLF
Time: 1:30PM – 10:30PM
$90 after May 16
4 PRIDE WINNIPEG FESTIVAL • 2016
EVENTSEVENTS
THE BIRDCAGE
Time: 10:00PM – 2:00AM
Cost: $10
Location: The Goodwill Social Club,
625 Portage Ave.
House of Gold Diamonds presents: THE
BIRDCAGE ------ A Tribute Dance Party!
Featuring your favorite DJ duo: DJ J.
Jackson & Mama Cutsworth
Special Guest: Andy_2_K
Hosted by: Tyra Boinks
SUNDAY JUNE 5
PRIDE VIGIL
Time: 8:30PM – 9:30PM
Cost: FREE
Location: Manitoba Legislature Grounds
Join together to remember and
commemorate those who’ve lost their lives
and dedicated their lives to the struggle
for equal rights and social treatment.
MONDAY JUNE 6
INDIAN TACO TIME
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Cost: FREE
Location: 5 Crossways In Common,
222 Furby St.
A social event to experience Aboriginal
culture and food. Prize bingo and
entertainment.
www.twospiritmanitoba.ca
TUESDAY JUNE 7
PRIDE IN BUSINESS
NETWORKING RECEPTION
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Cost: $25; Free for Members
Location: 21 RBC Dominion Securities
31st Floor – 201 Portage Ave.
Looking to meet other business
professionals? This event is designed
to facilitate networking, socializing and
building business relationships. You will
learn more about chamber members and
what’s happening in the community.
RSVP REQUIRED: www.MB-LGBT.biz/
events
LESBIAN LUBE WRESTLING 4.0
Time: 8pm – 11pm
Cost: $10
Location: 2 Club 200, 190 Garry St.
Wpg’s feistiest lube wrestlers meet for
Pride’s most entertaining community event!
Cheer on your favorite lubestar or sign up
for some slippery fun in the ring. Get prime
seating early and enjoy Club 200’s menu.
Yum!
5PRIDE OF THE PRAIRIES
THE BIRDCAGE
Time: 10:00PM – 2:00AM
Cost: $10
625 Portage Ave.
SUNDAY JUNE 5
PRIDE VIGIL
Time: 8:30PM – 9:30PM
Cost: FREE
MONDAY JUNE 6
INDIAN TACO TIME
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Cost: FREE
222 Furby St.
entertainment.
TUESDAY JUNE 7
PRIDE IN BUSINESS
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
events
Time: 8pm – 11pm
Cost: $10
Yum!
PrideMart, The Winnipeg Blue Bombers KidZone,
Tasty Treats, and AMAZING PERFORMANCES on the
Festival Stage ALL WEEKEND! It starts off with the
Coffee House Anniversary and TONS of local LGBTTQ*
talent! Join us under the red canopy! See pages 36-39
for all the details!
2 DAY FESTIVAL AT
THE FORKS
Saturday, June 11th
1 Forks Market Rd,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Shandi is one of the fiercest advocates
in the LGBTTQ* community. Some have
called her a trans pioneer and even ‘the
Laverne Cox of Winnipeg,’ but she’s quick
to point out that she’s not the first trans
person in Winnipeg and none of her
success would’ve been possible without
the support of the LBGTTQ* community.
A humble person, Shandi shares her story
in the hopes that it will empower those in
need and prevent misinformation about
trans and gender fluid individuals.
Shandi’s story begins the way most trans
stories do, a realization at a very young
age that their body and attitudes don’t
match their gender identity. Most children
are taught ‘gender rules’ from family, rules
which often indicate stereotypes such as
‘boys like the color blue, enjoy sports and
vehicles,’ whereas ‘girls like the color pink,
enjoy makeup and dolls.’ She preferred to
have tea parties and play the ‘damsel in
distress’ as a child – activities commonly
associated with femininity during that
time period.
Now for those whom are not familiar with
the differences and significance of gender
versus sex we’ll take a moment to explain.
Sex is the biological makeup of an
individual’s physical body whereas gender
is the identity and expression of the
person.If you refer to the diagram on the
bottom right, you can see that identity,
expression, sex and orientation are all
different but all compose the overall
identity of a person.
Over the years Shandi struggled with her
gender identity and expression. In her
teen years her parents had caught her
dressed in women’s clothing and sent
her to a psychiatrist. As she grew older
she buried her urges by getting married,
having kids, and focusing on her job but
the need to be herself never left. After 10
years and two children her first marriage
dissolved.
In her second marriage she was fortunate
tohave found someone that outwardly
supported her despite her inner turmoil.
Through a local support group called
“Masquerade”, she began to connect with
people from the LGBTTQ* community and
found support, love and acceptance.
During these years she started to identify
herself for whom she truly was to close
friends and family. She finally worked up
the courage to identify herself at work and
announce that she would begin to
transition.
2016
PARADE
MARSHALS
2016
PARADE
MARSHALS
time period.
dissolved.
transition.

JUNE 3 – JUNE 12
W I N N I P E G F E S T I V A L
EVENTSEVENTSFRIDAY JUNE 3
GLBTTQ COMMERCIALS
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Cost: $10
587 Ellice Ave.
www.reelpride.org
2
SATURDAY JUNE 4
PITCH FOR PRIDE
BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
team to join
RAIN DATE: 2016/06/05
(204) 943-6045 or club200@mts.net
PRIDE WINNIPEG FESTIVAL • 2016
FRIDAY JUNE 3
GLBTTQ COMMERCIALS
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Cost: $10
587 Ellice Ave.
www.reelpride.org
SATURDAY JUNE 4
PITCH FOR PRIDE
BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
team to join
RAIN DATE: 2016/06/05
(204) 943-6045 or club200@mts.net
OTHERS’ DAY SALE
Time: 10:00AM – 4:00PM
Cost: FREE
PRIDE GOLF
Time: 1:30PM – 10:30PM
$90 after May 16
PRIDE OF THE PRAIRIES 3
OTHERS’ DAY SALE
Time: 10:00AM – 4:00PM
Cost: FREE
PRIDE GOLF
Time: 1:30PM – 10:30PM
$90 after May 16

EVENTSEVENTS
THE BIRDCAGE
Time: 10:00PM – 2:00AM
Cost: $10
625 Portage Ave.
SUNDAY JUNE 5
PRIDE VIGIL
Time: 8:30PM – 9:30PM
Cost: FREE
MONDAY JUNE 6
INDIAN TACO TIME
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Cost: FREE
222 Furby St.
entertainment.
TUESDAY JUNE 7
PRIDE IN BUSINESS
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
events
Time: 8pm – 11pm
Cost: $10
Yum!
THE BIRDCAGE
Time: 10:00PM – 2:00AM
Cost: $10
625 Portage Ave.
SUNDAY JUNE 5
PRIDE VIGIL
Time: 8:30PM – 9:30PM
Cost: FREE
MONDAY JUNE 6
INDIAN TACO TIME
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Cost: FREE
222 Furby St.
entertainment.
TUESDAY JUNE 7
PRIDE IN BUSINESS
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
events
Time: 8pm – 11pm
Cost: $10
Yum!
WEDNESDAY JUNE 8
RAINBOW RESOURCE CENTRE
OPEN HOUSE/COMMUNITY BBQ
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Cost: FREE, by donation
Location: 15 170 Scott Street
Come join us at the Rainbow Resource
Centre to meet the staff, see the space,
learn more about what’s happening at the
Centre and enjoy a beef or veggie hot
dog. Let’s build community together!
www.rainbowresourcecentre.org
FUNKY MONKEY DODGEBALL
& OTHER FUN GAMES
Time: 7 - 9pm
Cost: $10
Location: 23 980 Palmerston Ave.
Play like a kid again! Come out and get
active with your friends playing some of
your favorite elementary gym class games!
Games like Dr. Dodgeball, Capture the
Flag, Pinball etc.! Spots are limited.
REGISTER BY EMAIL:
funkymonkeymovement@gmail.com
THURSDAY JUNE 9
QUEERIOUS
Time: Opening Reception 6pm – 9pm
Cost: FREE
Location: 17 Edge Gallery, 611 Main St.
A celebration of LGBT* craft, a connection
between Winnipeg’s vibrant arts community
and its diverse LGBT* community, Queerious
draws into focus the work of several LGBT*
artists.
Runs June 11- 16th.
www.edgevillage.com
“ONE GAY CITY”
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
Time: 6:30pm – 9pm
Cost: FREE
Location: 13 The Roblin Centre,
P107 Red River College 160
Princess St.
EVENTSEVENTS
WEDNESDAY JUNE 8
RAINBOW RESOURCE CENTRE
OPEN HOUSE/COMMUNITY BBQ
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Cost: FREE, by donation
Location: 15 170 Scott Street
Come join us at the Rainbow Resource
Centre to meet the staff, see the space,
learn more about what’s happening at the
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SCAN by CoLab
SCAN by CoLab
ISSUE TWO
ON ECOLOGIES OF THINKING AND ECOLOGIES OF PRACTICE:
AN INTERVIEW WITH ERIN MANNING.
PEACE IS STILL FRAGILE: AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER FRANZ
By Pancho Puelles
NOW WE’RE TALKING MAWA: AN INTERVIEW WITH SHAWNA DEMPSEY
OF MENTORING ARTISTS FOR WOMEN’S ART (MAWA)
By Bonnie Marin
RHIZOMES AND MONUMENTAL STRUCTURE: CHRIS BOOTH IN CONVERSATION
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THROUGH THE LIQUID LENS: QUESTIONS FOR LAUREL JOHANNESSON
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A CONVERSATION MASQUERADING AS AN INTERVIEW:
JEANNE RANDOLPH AND SHAUN DE ROOY
A CONVERSATION WITH KARA UZELMAN
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WHAT IS POETRY? WHO LIVES IT?’: FRED MOTEN ON RACE,
CONTROVERSY, AND CONCEPTUAL POETRY.
By Jessica Evans
GREEK PROSTHETICS AND DOCUMENTA 14: A PARAPHRASE
AND A PREVIEW OF AN EXHIBITION YET TO COME
By Shep Steiner
BEING IN PHOTOGRAPHY: AN INTERVIEW WITH KELLY LYCAN
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Editorial
Editors this issue: Shep Steiner, David Foster
Editorial Collective: Jessica Evans, Hannah Doucet, John Patterson, Kelly Campbell
Design: Sam Li
Website and logo: Eli Zibin
Email:shepherd.steiner@umanitoba.ca, david.foster@umanitoba.ca
Online archive: scanpublication.com
SCAN by CoLab is a collaboratively run contemporary art review based in Winnipeg.
Funding for this project was made possible by the University of Manitoba, School of Art Curriculum Development and Innovation Fund.

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SCAN by CoLab SCAN by CoLab
(Electronic Engineer and Futures Research, Stanford) discussing the use
of sound, art, objects, visual imagery and psychoactive chemicals to
create transcendental experiences in volunteer patients. The use of spirits,
fermentation, and sound in these works not only speak to a process of
transformation, but also using contemporary rituals of socializing and
celebration as well as an enduring human desire for self-transcendence.
These works highlight my continuing interest in provisional inventions,
utopian aspirations, and the bewildering potential of the invisible forces
and energies that surround us. It’s partially these interests that brought
me to rural Saskatchewan.
MB: Since you mentioned Saskatchewan, I was wondering if you could
speak a little bit on how living in Nokomis has influenced your current
practice? You mentioned that your scavenging techniques have been
altered. But has the landscape, weather, or history of the region changed
your work in any other substantial way?
Re: Spiritual Experience, 2015
installation view
mixed media installation
photo: Blaine Campbell
KU: Yes, moving to Nokomis has influenced my work in many ways,
which are still taking form. I have spent a lot of time in the last four years,
since moving, just learning how to live here: how to grow and preserve
food, how to work with the materials and resources immediately available
(so that I don’t spend all my time and money driving back and forth from
the city), how to fix my house and what it takes to support myself in this
setting. I’m interested in the pursuit of a symbiotic way of life, which can
take many different forms, and experimenting with this goal. Most people
that I talk to abhor the idea of ever living in rural Saskatchewan or any
rural community for that matter and people living around here seem to
exude a real sense of loss with regard to the decline of rural life. Those
negative ways of regarding the region can be disheartening at times, but
I try to stay focused on my own reasons for choosing to live and work
here and the potential possibilities that do exist. The most challenging
aspect of working as an artist here is not having a local peer group or any
collaborators. I am very isolated in that way. It’s a farming community,
so life here is seasonal which has also impacted my sense of time and
working cycles. There is a different relationship to landscape here, one
that is more matter-of-fact or even fear-based, rather than romantic – the
practical necessities tend to become a priority. But the wide-open prairie
landscape is also like an endless blank canvas in which the stories, lore
and little pieces of found histories have space to capture the imagination.
All of this informs my work and ways of making. I read somewhere
recently that when visiting Saskatchewan, John Cage was so enraptured
by the landscape, he predicted the next big movement in art would happen
here.
Cavorist Archive, details, 2009-ongoing
mixed media archive, dimensions variable
details from the Cavorist Archive (clockwise from left): installation view; rock gate, 1919; excavation notes May 20 1922; page from a note book; photo-document of John
Hutchison’s laboratory, 1988, Burnaby BC; photo-document of anti-gravity experiment; photo-document of abandoned settlement, Yukon; photo-document of Hutchison Effect;
drawing from the Bottomless Lake, Flin Flon MB; design for Free Energy machine on napkin
WHAT IS POETRY? WHO LIVES IT?’:
FRED MOTEN ON RACE, CONTROVERSY,
AND CONCEPTUAL POETRY
Fred Moten, the writer, theorist and recipient of the 2015 National Book
Award for poetry, is reading at Or, a small gallery squashed next to a
sloping piazza in Vancouver called Victory square. We’re rushing because
we think they will run out of space, but didn’t need to because it is a poetry
reading, after all. Taking our seats as the room fills, a gentleman sits next
to my friend holding a six-pack and inconspicuously snorts drugs out of
a paper packet. “He walked by and asked me what was happening here
tonight”, another friend tells me when she comes back from her cigarette.
We shrug, smiling.
Moten begins his first appearance in Vancouver with poems described
as ones not read, but listened to. The line “everything I want to say
eludes me” lands with soft, serious impact; later he breaks from his text
to describe Michael Jackson as “like, some kind of supergenius” in an
anecdote about his kids. Half of the poems he reads were composed
during all-school critiques when he was a visiting artist at Bard College,
a procedure he described as “watching someone get beaten.” He has
written, with Stefano Harney, a book called The Undercommons: Fugitive
Planning and Black Study that examines possible interventions for the
neoliberal configuration of today’s university. To me, what it really
describes are the spaces where another kind of “study” happens: riding
the bus to school, or having a cigarette with your teacher outside.
When the room is opened to questions the (white) man with the six pack
says “Hey where are you from? Compton?” and it’s possible every asshole
in the room constricts. Moten is gracious in his response, but the guy
keeps rambling and a woman remarks she would like a better question to
be asked, and the guy says fuck you bitch, and a kind of flurry erupts.
I relay this event to an acquaintance at Moten’s second event two days
later, and she says “it’s kind of thrilling when something actually happens
at a talk”. True, and let’s be real, the discomfort at Or is really only a
couple shades above the usual embarrassment I experience at any given
artist talk. But the disruption casts a pall that unfortunately could not
be remedied. The guy says fuck you bitch and the rest of the audience
emitted loud sounds of disapproval, and he’s asked to leave but then
apologized a lot and said he would be quiet, so it awkwardly continued.
Moten attempts to answer someone else’s question about whether he
has any bad writing habits but his response seamlessly turns its gaze to
the guy and, with calm command, told him to leave because he fucked up
the vibe (not his words). Another outburst, more verbal abuse. The guy
is sort-of escorted out and then stood outside the gallery for a long time
screaming “Wu-Tang Forever!” and “Fuck you nigger!” interchangeably.
At this point (gallery owners/collectives take note!) we needed a
recuperative pause and a drink, but for some reason no institutional
representative mediates so the questions continue deep inside a
mortifying reverb. This train is off its rails and a kind of group therapy
happens between four inviduals who have “questions” about racism in
Canada, racism against Indigenous peoples versus racism against African
Americans, gentrification in Vancouver, how the essence of poetry was
there in the light reflecting off the spit the guy spat on the window . . .
On October 25th, Moten speaks again at Western Front as part of their
Scriveners Monthly series. He begins with an address, of sorts, to the
storm surrounding recent works by poets Kenneth Goldsmith and Vanessa
Place. In case you don’t know, Goldsmith is a (white) poet who teaches
at an Ivy league university who, in March 2015, delivered a reading of
Michael Brown’s autopsy report that was “altered for poetic effect” and
By Jessica Evans
called “The Body of Michael Brown”. Vanessa Place is also a (white) poet
who has taken it upon herself to tweet the entirety of Gone With the Wind
online, using a picture of Hattie McDaniel as her banner image. Goldsmith’s
reading and the petition to remove Place from the 2016 Association of
Writers & Writing Program’s committee gave rise to the anonymous
individual or collective known as Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo, whose
aim is to attack and expose what they see as the white supremacism and
colonialization of conceptual poetry. Moten starts talking about this and
I move forward in my seat, anticipating a departure from the polarities
offered so far which call for Goldsmith’s head, or pompously trot out free
speech, or writers who say things like “race is a hot issue right now”.
Moten reads to us from a recent correspondence with a friend, saying*:
“The main reason I withdrew from the Berkeley Poetry conference
was not Vanessa Place so much, as what the Vanessa Place thing had
made utterly clear, something I had been thinking and feeling all along:
there’s something terribly wrong, not just with the current version of the
poetry world but with the very idea of the poetry world. Something I’ve
been thinking . . . if you wanted to have a great conference on social life
would you exclusively invite a bunch of sociologists? Even interesting,
experimental, critical sociologists? I would say no. What is poetry? Who
lives it? Is it limited to, or does it immediately and immeasurably exceed the
set of people who are called, or who call themselves, poets . . ?
The thing between Place and Goldsmith, on the one hand, and the mongrel
coalition and their followers on the other hand, while it’s not symmetrical
it’s still a battle between two sets striving for the privileges that accrue
to citizens of the poetry world. Abstract-equivalent drones of poetic
sovereignty . . . the oxymoron to end all oxymoron. And just like just
about every such modality of striving over the past 500 years, the primary
casualty – who is also the primary source of material – is black social life
and its refusal of the sovereignty and citizenship that is serially refused to it.
What could be more vulgarly and obscenely emblematic of this than
Goldsmith and the mongrel coalition fighting over what each mistakenly
and thoughtlessly and pre-intellectually understands to have been Michael
Brown’s body? I don’t have anything to say about race. I’m trying to
lose myself in a study group that is working towards having something
to say about blackness, and black social life. Race matters have become
professional matters: they are once again, and have always been, matters
of finance. What is produced is an incredibly uninteresting and almost
always surreptitiously neoliberal discourse that tries to absolve and
inoculate itself by its constant reference to the empirical facts or records
of racial oppression. As if black life, as if even the suffering that comprises
part of black life, could be captured by what Stuart Hall and his folks call
“the empiricist attitude”.
The state autopsy report about Michael Brown tells us nothing about either
Michael Brown or the state. The reduction, or enlargement, depending
on how you look at it, of Gone With The Wind to document, documents
nothing. The alarming lack of thought that would allow presumably
intelligent people to believe so, even for a minute, is staggering. And to
my mind, not only calls all their work into question, but also and more
importantly alerts us to a quite specific danger that occurs in the interplay
between the art world, the poetry world and the academic world. And
mongrel coalition is left howling, because all they seem to want is entry into
the very system of vulgar, violent recognition they claim to want to destroy.
“Occupy turned inward” is right! Because Occupy was always turned
inward, or more precisely, turned towards the increasingly untenable
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