Art Forums: Dr. Kirsty Robertsoon

Please join us Wednesday, Nov 26, at 3:30pm PST for a talk with Dr. Kirsty Robertson in Reliance Theatre. All are welcome! The event will be livestreamed:

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Dr. Kirsty Robertson is Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art, and Sustainability and Professor and Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University where she also directs the Centre for Sustainable Curating (CSC). Robertson has published widely on activism, visual culture and museums, culminating in her book Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Museums, Culture (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019). Her new work focuses on small and micro- collections that repurpose traditional museum formats for critical and politically radical projects. A book titled Countering the Museum: The Non-Institution as a Site for Activism is in preparation for the Museums in Focus Series (Routledge). Robertson is a founding member of the Synthetic Collective, a group of artists, scientists and cultural researchers working on plastics pollution in the Great Lakes Region and project co-lead on A Museum for Future Fossils, an ongoing “vernacular museum” that responds curatorially to ecological crisis.

Presented by the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, hosted by FRMS: 300: Art Forums Course and in partnership with the Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies.