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 merges performance art, design, and sculpture, drawing from Indigenous storytelling traditions through art, scholarship, collaboration, and social justice. Hupfield was the inaugural ArtworxTO Legacy Artist in Residence with the City of Toronto, a recipient of the Hnatyshyn Mid-career Award for Outstanding Achievement, and Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize, among others. Her work... 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 Migwans is a member of Wiikwemikoong Unceded Territory, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, and Curator of Indigenous Art in the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Their research focuses on the politics of place-making from the land to the museum, with special emphasis on textile arts in Anishinaabe territory. Migwans... Read more