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Artist Talk: Marina Roy

The Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa is proud to present Marina Roy for their artist-talk on Wednesday October 25th at 12:00pm. The University of Ottawa is located on unceded territories of the Algonquin People, who are the traditional guardians of this land.

Marina Roy is a Vancouver-based artist and writer, and associate professor in visual art at the University of British Columbia. Her artwork investigates the grotesque, at the intersection of language, image, and materiality, and her research interests include ecology, posthumanism, psychoanalysis, and biopolitics. She explores humour through a corporeal register: humans’ underlying animality and mortality, as well as the absurdity of humanist moral positions vis‑à‑vis life on this planet. She has shown nationally and internationally. Roy was recipient of the viva award in 2010. In 2001 she published sign after the X____ (Arsenal/Artspeak), a book that revolves around the letter ‘X’ and its multiple meanings. Her newest book, Queuejumping (Information Oqce/Art Metropole, 2022), uses the letter ‘Q’ as device to investigate such interwoven issues as the ‘invention’ of language and art, the shifting nature of sovereignty, feminist utopias, ecological devastation, and animal extinction.

The artist-talk will be presented in English and is open to the public. Please join us in room 114 on October 25th.

Accessibility
If you require accommodation, please contact the event host as soon as possible.
Date and time
Oct 25, 2023
12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Format and location
In person
100 Laurier (LRR)
Language
English
Audience
General public, Undergraduate students, Graduate students, Faculty and staff