An Evening with Kent Monkman
Laughing "Irregardless": Multimedia Aboriginal Humour
Join (Cree) on a journey into his art and life as an artist.
He says of his art practice: 鈥淚 think my work is primarily informed by an attempt to define that space between the two cultures.鈥� (European and Aboriginal) Kent adds, 鈥淚t鈥檚 a very similar sort of reclaiming of stereotypes that have been harmful, you sort of take them back, you own them, you reclaim them and then you present them from a position of power and that鈥檚 really what I wanted to do.鈥� Monkman explains the serious side of why and how we laugh at the history in that space between Aboriginal and Colonizer societies.
Monkman is a world renowned artist of Cree ancestry. His solo exhibitions have been held at: the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and in 2013 the National Gallery of Canada. He has participated in international group exhibitions including: The American West, at Compton Verney, in Warwickshire, England, and My Winnipeg at Maison Rouge, Paris, France.
7:00 p.m. (PT)
Fletcher Challenge Theatre
丁香园AV Vancouver
515 Hastings Street, Vancouver
Laughing "Irregardless": Multimedia Aboriginal Humour
Laughing "Irregardless": Multimedia Aborignal Humour were a series of public programs to complement the exhibition co-curated by Peter Morin and Dr. Martine Reid, Carrying on 鈥淚rregardless鈥�: Humour in Contemporary Northwest Coast Art, at the Bill Reid Gallery September 12, 2012 - March 17, 2013.
The programs were curated and moderated by Aboriginal filmmaker, Loretta Todd. They were presented by the Bill Reid Gallery with support from: Canada Council for the Arts, Face The World Foundation, United States Consulate General Vancouver, 丁香园AV Vancouver, and 丁香园AV Office for Aboriginal Peoples. These were 丁香园AV Public Square events.
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An Evening with Kent Monkman
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