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we are here!

tonight we step into the 13th annual symposium of art hosted by Struts Gallery,

Faucet Media Arts centre and the Owens gallery.

you even called me friend.....

back home...

the panel was massive...

It was moderated by Dr. Jane Dryden,

a recent hire in the philosophy department at Mount Allison University, who has promised me at least the précis of her dissertation:
Relational Autonomy: Bridging a Gap Between Feminisim and German Idealism.

^{dr. jane dryden and john murchie, of Struts Gallery, our remarkable host , after the big event.}

She teaches courses here in Sackville introducing Kant, aesthetics, and "images of the self". From this ready point she corralled the many minds and bodies that sat in front of a respectable crowd in a slowly arching row of chairs:

Margaret Dragu, Pam Hall, Ed Pien, Mario Doucette, Felicity Taylor, studio xx directrice generale, Paulina Abarca-Cantin, and i.

7 people... wow. i believe our introductions may have taken half an hour as each of the participants have a rich and varied practice.

the discussion had been framed this way:

An open and informal panel discussion with the audience about the
issues arising when artists bring advanced practices which are often
developed in large metropolitcan centres into communities which are
not. Are there issues which arise for the artists? And for the community?

Discussions began around issue of place, the metropolis, definitions of the urban, privilege, sameness and equivalence, residencies, artist as tourist, reception, traditions of process..... big issues. the audience was willing to question and engage.

our host, John Murchie, of Struts commented at the end of it all, that he felt he had framed the panel to be about the audience, when all we talked about was the practice. I have to say, i don't consider my practice, (my self) to be separate from the audience but in relation to it, reliant upon it. So when i talk about making work, i am already talking about (with?) the audience.

while Paulina and I were in conversation here, Valerie Walker and Andrea-Jane Cornell were in performance mode at NSCAD

they will give us some news tomorrow as we change places. and i am hoping we will have some documentation to show you here.

L'equipe Pipeline will lunch in Halifax, Valérie will continue back to Sackville where she will present, Wavelengths Filters XX on CHMA 106.9 fm.

You can hear her every week on the xx files at ckut

but stream this one live to hear her in action and in her own words by clicking the link.

she says ...

" I would speak as a transMedia artist with a radio outlet about the idea of a feminist radio show focusing around technology, adding some specifics about Oral Herstory's workshop approaches (supportive, group learning with discussions on task distribution so that each member was challenged technically, learned and shared that knowledge with the group..) and it's trans-generational intent to create a documentary archive component throughout."

so, it has been a pretty big day so far!

xxjk