DAY 2 - Sat Dec 4
11:30am
Between Performance and Museum Object
Event Type:
On-site
Maria Hupfield in conversation with Tarah Hogue and Mikinaak (Crystal) Migwans
A conversation between artist Hupfield and curators Hogue and Migwans on the way performance can change museum practice and how artists take their performance ephemera into the museum as objects. Lastly, how objects can become embodied when performed.
About the Artists

Maria Hupfield
Maria Hupfield (she/her) is an artist and transdisciplinary maker working with Industrial felt at the intersection of performance art, design and sculpture; an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Performance and Digital Arts,, and Canadian Research Chair in Transdisciplinary Indigenous Arts, Director / Lead Artist of the Indigenosu Creation Studio, Department of Visual Studies / English and Drama, at... Read more

Tarah Hogue
Tarah Hogue is a curator, cultural worker and writer. Originally from Red Deer, she was raised along the border of Treaty 6 and 7 territories. She is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta with Dutch and French-Canadian ancestry. She holds an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia. While... Read more

Mikinaak (Crystal) Migwans
Mikinaak (Crystal) Migwans is a member of Wiikwemikoong Unceded Territory and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Contemporary Art in Canada at the University of Toronto with a cross-appointment as Curator of Indigenous Art at the U of T Art Museum. Their research and pedagogy is focused on Indigenous relations in museum and gallery settings, the power of... Read more