BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Milieux - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Milieux
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Milieux
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Toronto
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250220T193000
DTSTAMP:20260512T124911
CREATED:20250131T154425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250207T180916Z
UID:9373-1740074400-1740079800@milieux.concordia.ca
SUMMARY:Woven Futures: In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Armando Perla\, acting Co-Director and Chief Curator of the Textile Museum of Canada\, along with artist and independent curator Michaëlle Sergile and associate professor Miranda Smitheram\, in a conversation around textiles\, art\, fashion and cultural institutions. \nTextiles contain many stories. This session looks at the many stories and histories untold and misrepresented through colonial narratives\, as well as current practices that are actively rewriting histories and collaboratively imagining futures. \nThis event is organized as part of the Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction exhibition on view at the National Gallery of Canada until March 2nd.  This transformative exhibition explores how abstract art and woven textiles have intertwined over the past seventy years. \nBefore the main event\, Textiles & Materiality cluster invites you to joinsWoven Stories\,  a panel discussion between led by PhD student Morris Fox. This session\, featuring members\, artists\, and PhD scholars will take place in the Milieux Learning Atelier prior to the main conversation. \nMore about Woven Stories\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \n  \nArmando Perla is a non-binary queer mestizo curator currently acting as Co-Director and Chief Curator at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. Previously\, Perla was Chief Curator for the City of Toronto\, and Vice-President of the Canadian Museums Association. \nThey also worked as an Assistant Professor on Decolonization and Race in the iSchool at the University of Toronto\, and served as International Advisor on Museums for the City of Medellin\, Colombia. In addition\, they were part of the founding team for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights\, and Project Leader for the Swedish Museum of Migration and Democracy. In 2021\, they were awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Doctoral Fellowship. \n  \n  \nMichaëlle Sergile is an artist and independent curator working mainly on archives including texts and works from the postcolonial period from 1950 to today. Her artistic work aims to understand and rewrite the history of Black communities\, and more specifically of women\, or communities living in diverse intersections\, through weaving. Often perceived as a medium of craftsmanship and categorized as feminine\, the artist uses the lexicon of weaving to question the relationships of gender and race. \nShe has exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec\, the Musée d’art de Joliette and the Off Biennale de Dakar. Her name was also on the long list of the prestigious Sobey Award for the Arts in 2022. In 2023\, she won Visual Artist of the Year at the Gala Dynastie and began a residency at the Darling Foundry. She exhibited her work at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and the McCord Stewart Museum in 2024. \n  \nAssociate Professor Miranda Smitheram is an artist\, design researcher and educator. Miranda was raised within a bicultural context in Aotearoa/New Zealand\, and draws upon her Māori and settler-colonial heritage in her work. \nDeveloping new hybrid materials to contribute to sustainable\, relational and postcolonial futures\, she centres her approach on crafting with the environment. This is explored through digital\, physical and hybrid materialities. Miranda’s current research investigates ontologies of kinship\, contested places\, and decolonizing matter through research-creation\, by rematerializing invasive plant species and contaminants into soft surface\, biocomposite and textile applications. \n  \n  \n  \n📅: February 20\, 2025 | 6-7:30 PM \n📍: National Gallery of Canada\, Auditorium / Live-broadcasted into Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425 \n🔗 Zoom registration \nThe event will be held in English with simultaneous French interpretation. \n  \nOrganized in partnership with Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts\, the Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster at Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology and the National Gallery of Canada. \n               \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/woven-futures-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Milieux Learning Atelier EV 11.425
CATEGORIES:Roundtable
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://milieux.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/woven-futures-2025-teaser-800x475-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR