2022 Art + Memory + Justice Symposium Presents:
WHEN & WHERE
March 19\, 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Online Event
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This symposium explores the contingent\, emergent\, resilient\, gestures of care that have emerged duri ng global pandemic times\, and illuminates their entanglements with memory and art practices. While sociopolitical and economic ruptures have no doubt devastated many\, we also have witnessed how communities have galvanized g rassroots efforts to care for communities\, while also fomenting shifts tow ards social justice. This symposium invites guests to contend with the ever yday collective strategies of care as hybrid and interrelational spaces whe re experiential and transgenerational knowledge condense with the urgency a nd the creativity to imagine and generate diverse formats to cope\, confron t\, or transform the ongoing precarization of life as well as rethink and s hape possible futures.
The symposium interrogates the conditions that place art\, memory\, and care to the private and consanguinity sphere\, le aving the work of memory to the past\, and relegating the social practice o f facilitating community care as an illegible\, non-artistic practice. Thro ugh contending with these intersections\, we explore the transformative pot ential of collective strategies of care.
How have art and cultural in itiatives that have emerged through strategies of care\, been enacted by co mmunities during the pandemic? What everyday care acts can be made visible through arts practice? How have structural and historic senses and orders b een disrupted through collective strategies of care?
“Resilient Cartographies: Everyday strategies of social justice that (re)e merged during pandemic times” is Supported and sponsored by UBC’s Memory & Justice Research Stream and Transformative Memory Network.