Session: City as Generator
Friday, November 5 @ 1:30 pm
Fort Garry Hotel
The city is the generator of ideas and inspired creative responses, yet it can also be the subject of criticism and critique. How artists come to understand the city in both personal and public forms is imbedded in their processes and practices. These perspectives can be as diverse as they are complex. This panel address the ideas spawned from the city through various lenses. Forms of mapping and anonymous citizen participation are used to create a multi-level profile of places within a city. The downtown is transformed into a dance partner who at times willingly gives over to emotive communication and at other times is as resistant as the concrete and stone it wears. Areas which ring the core and possess a definitive character of their own are the subject of poetic interpretation. All of these generated expressions reflect the range of humanity that defines living in an urban environment.
Moderator:
Herbert Enns - Winnipeg, MB
Immony Men and Maegan Broadhurst - Montreal, QC
"Can you hear the city whispering?"
Sharon B. Moore - Toronto, ON
Katherena Vermette - Winnipeg, MB
selkirk avenue
