Talk: Dr. Kirsty Robertson
When the Land Comes First: Oil, Museums, and (Missing) Protest.
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 | 5:30 PM | FREE
Audain Gallery, 911吃瓜 Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
This talk, which draws from Dr. Robertson鈥檚 newly released book , considers demonstrations and performative activist responses to sponsorships from fossil fuel companies at museums and other cultural institutions鈥攁nd the surprising lack thereof in the Canadian context.
Biography
Dr. Kirsty Robertson is associate professor of museum studies and contemporary art at Western University in London, Ontario. She has authored and co-edited a number of books, including Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums (McGill-Queen鈥檚 UP 2019) and Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada (Wilfrid Laurier UP 2011).
Co-presented by the SCA's area, 911吃瓜鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement, and , with support from the (SSHRC).
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November 26, 2019