Critical Ideas: On Gathering
On Gathering brings together choreographer/director Emily Johnson (Yup’ik), writer/artist Camille Georgeson-Usher (Coast Salish/Sahtu Dene/Scottish), choreographer/curator Satu Herrala, and Dylan Robinson (Stó:lō) to discuss artistic forms and gathering and assembly in public space.
Our discussion will give particular attention to the exclusionary and inclusionary politics of gathering together upon Indigenous lands where we are uninvited guests.
Critical Ideas is a partnership between PuSh and SFU’s Institute for Performance Studies. Coordinated by IPS Director Peter Dickinson and PuSh Associate Artistic Director Joyce Rosario, the series brings together artists, critics, scholars, and audiences to discuss formal, social, and ideological issues affecting performance practice and reception today.
Panels are free and open to the public. Now entering its 5th year, the 2020 edition of Critical Ideas has been guest-curated by PuSh Scholars-in-Residence Dylan Robinson and Keren Zaiontz.
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Artist Bio
Emily Johnson (USA)
2015 Artist- in-Residence
The Artist-in-Residence program invites an artist to be a part of the PuSh Festival in meaningful ways beyond presenting a finished work. PuSh was itself founded by two artists and has a deep interest in initiatives that are artist-centred and foster the creative process. For a guest artist, the program provides an opportunity to expand their practice, research, and engage with the local artistic community.
Emily Johnson (USA)
Originally from Alaska and based in Minneapolis, Johnson creates work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as installations, engaging audiences within and through a space and environment—interacting with a place’s architecture, history and role in community. She is artistic director of Catalyst, a performance company whose works have been described as “voracious,” “dreamlike,” “stunning,” “punk rock-cum-minimalist,” and “a force of nature.” Johnson’s staged, site-specific and public performance projects involve collaborations with writers, musicians, sculptors, visual artists and community members.
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Venue
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver (Level 3)
Showtimes
January 31
90 minutes
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