Feminist Media Studio

Come join the discussion! On April 8th the Feminist Media Studio will be hosting How to Make Art at the End of the World: Show and Share with Natalie Loveless. As an intervention into normative scholarly practice, research-creation has gained increasing visibility and validity over the past decade within the academy. Often mobilizing interdisciplinary and collaborative methods, with one foot - always - firmly grounded in artistic literacies, research-creation asks us to atten...d, with detail, to the methods we mobilize as well as our modes of output and publication at the level of constitutive form. This Show and Share is an opportunity for grad students and faculty to think with Loveless through some of the frameworks and provocations laid out in her 2019 book How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation. Natalie S. Loveless teaches contemporary art and theory with a focus on feminist art, performance art, conceptual art, activist art, art-as-social-practice. Her recent books, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation and Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation examine debates surrounding research-creation and its institutionalization, paying particular attention to what it means - and why it matters - to make and teach art research-creationally in the North American university today. Forthcoming books include Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem and The Routledge Companion to Performance Art. She recently completed New Maternalisms, a project bringing together feminist art practice, theory and curation, and an interdisciplinary collaborative project on global vaccination called Immune Nations that culminated in a high-profile exhibition at UNAIDS in Geneva during the 2017 World Health Assembly. Visit t.ly/wiTv for more information and to register. See you there!

On March 5th - join the launch of the Soundgirls Audio Équité Montréal Chapter! "We hope that this Chapter will foster more diverse, inclusive and interesting collaboration in Sound, create new opportunities for our members, provide relevant information and programming, and become a space to visibilize all the great work our community creates."

Apply to the Digital (Im)materialities Virtual Conference May 25-29, 2021. The application deadline has been extended to February 26th. Visit digitalimmaterialities.net for information and apply!

Film, Gender, and Education: A Discussion with Dr. Tracy Ying Zhang, Alexia Roc, and Whitney Norceide Join Film Prod. Students for Inclusivity & Action and Kaia Singh for a conversation about gender in film education! Dr. Tracy Ying Zhang will offer insights from her report, Take Us Seriously: Gender, Equality, and Inclusion in Film Production Education, based on research conducted in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Film production undergraduate alumna Whitney Norceid...e and MFA student Alexia Roc will share their personal experiences in the program, providing insight into Dr. Zhang’s findings. Facilitated by FPSIA, this discussion will cover the issues that exist with film education and the ways that students can mobilize to address them. Visit Film, Gender, and Education event page for additional details https://fb.me/e/cEM9FH92Q

Join the premiere of the documentary Creatives Spaces: Queer and Italian-Canadian! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/creative-spaces-queer-and-itali TKARONTO (TORONTO) What does it mean to be queer and Italian-Canadian? And what experiences do queer Italian-Canadians have when their sexual orientation and gender identity come in contact with their cultural heritage and traditions? Licia Canton, the director of the documentary Creatives Spaces: Queer and Italian-Canadian, is ...hopeful that this project will help to encourage new conversations on these topics and to celebrate the great diversity of our community. The Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian-Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto and Accenti Magazine will host the premiere of this original documentary on Wednesday, March 3rd from 3-5pm (EST) via Zoom. The premiere will be followed by a panel discussion with the director, queer Italian-Canadian artists featured in the documentary Liana Cusmano, Steve Galluccio, and Chris DiRaddo, and scholars Domenic Beneventi and Paolo Frascà. The documentary is funded by the Queer Studies in Quebec Research Group (ÉRÉQQ) and the Association of Italian Canadian Writers (AICW). See more

Meet our guest Ian Alan! On Friday, they will share their work and discuss imagination as central to the practice of going on strike. More info https://feministmediastudio.ca/ian-alan-paul-the-imaginati/ Ian Alan Paul is an artist-theorist whose work examines enactments of power and practices of resistance in global contexts. Their projects are formally diverse, often making use of writing, photography, video, and code. Over the course of their life, Ian has lived, developed projects, and taught at universities in the United States, Mexico, Spain, Egypt, and Palestine, and has exhibited their work and given lectures internationally. They received their PhD in Film and Digital Media Studies from UC Santa Cruz in 2016, and is presently based in Barcelona.

This Saturday at noon! Joy, courage and solidarity in response to increase police intimidation. Don't miss DANSE d'hiver pour un Statut pour toutes et tous ! Winter DANCE for Status for ALL! Come together in solidarity with all undocumented migrants in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal and across so-called Canada. #StatusForAll