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4 Oct 2018, 12:40 pm

Guest Tour: Collective Acts with Erin Silver

  • Erin Silver

    Professor

    Professor Erin Silver is a historian of queer and feminist art, visual culture, performance, and activism, who holds a PhD in Art History and Gender and Women’s studies from McGill University. She is the co-editor (with Amelia Jones) of Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (Manchester University Press, 2015), and co-edited (with taisha paggett) an issue of C Magazine, “Force,” on intersectional feminisms and movement culture. She has curated exhibitions at the FOFA Gallery (Montreal), the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (Toronto), and the Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto). Professor Silver is currently teaching a new course, “Is Art History Queer?,” in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, and next term she will be delivering an art history seminar on the history of art and activism in Canada.

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Please join Professor Erin Silver (UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory) for a tour and discussion of some of the works in the current exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Beginning with the Seventies: Collective Acts. Inspired by the social movements of the 1970s – feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, Indigenous rights, access to health services and housing – the exhibition presents work by Dana Claxton, Jeneen Frei Njootli and the ReMatriate Collective, Christine D’Onofrio and Heather Kai Smith. Professor Silver’s tour will focus on how artists/activists have engaged visual media and the power of collective action in response to social and political struggles, and the risks and possibilities inherent in these interventions.

Erin Silver’s tour is organized by the UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. The tour is presented as part of ARTIVISM: A Festival of Creative Resistance by UBC Arts and Culture District and DIVE.

  • Erin Silver

    Professor

    Professor Erin Silver is a historian of queer and feminist art, visual culture, performance, and activism, who holds a PhD in Art History and Gender and Women’s studies from McGill University. She is the co-editor (with Amelia Jones) of Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (Manchester University Press, 2015), and co-edited (with taisha paggett) an issue of C Magazine, “Force,” on intersectional feminisms and movement culture. She has curated exhibitions at the FOFA Gallery (Montreal), the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (Toronto), and the Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto). Professor Silver is currently teaching a new course, “Is Art History Queer?,” in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, and next term she will be delivering an art history seminar on the history of art and activism in Canada.

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