Art Forums Talk: Meera Sethi

Please join us Monday, Mar 16 at 5:00pm for an in-person talk with artist Meera Sethi, followed by a discussion moderated by Dr. Natasha Bissonauth, Assistant Professor of Art History at ECU. All are welcome!

LOCATION: Reliance Theatre, ECU

DIRECTIONS: Enter through the main entrance of ECU (555 Great Northern Way), and walk straight down the first flight of stairs to the ground floor.

Nina Davies is a Canadian-British artist who considers the present moment by observing dance in popular culture and how it is disseminated, circulated, made, and consumed. Working primarily with video, performance, writing, and installation, her work considers current dance phenomena in relation to the wider socio-technical environments from which it emerges. This includes research into the recent commodification of the dancing body on digital platforms, and rethinking dances of today as traditional dances of the future. Oscillating between the use of fiction and non-fiction, her work helps build new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices.

Natasha Bissonauth is Assistant Professor of Art History at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC. She received her Ph.D. in Art History at Cornell University in 2017 and her research centers queer aesthetics and archival logics across South Asia and Indian Ocean diasporas. She is currently working on a SSHRC-funded book project on collage that sutures and severs across legacies of immigration and indenture. Threading ‘areas’ like South Asia, the Caribbean, and Mauritius, Black and brown seams emerge as interruptions within the bordered logics of the art historical discipline.

Presented by the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Drawing & Sculpture