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Art NOW speaker series presents: Kirsty Robertson
Taking the Museum Outside: Protest and Sustainability in a Time of Climate Emergency
12 pm | October 25, 2023
University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome
The speaker joins us virtually in the recital hall for this talk.
Kirsty Robertson is Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University where she also directs the Centre for Sustainable Curating (CSC). The CSC supports research, visual/digital production, and pedagogy focused on environmental and social justice, and encourages the development of exhibitions and artworks with low carbon footprints. Additionally, Robertson has published widely on activism, visual culture and museums culminating in her book Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Museums, Culture (McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 2019). Her new work focuses on small and micro- collections that repurpose traditional museum formats for critical and politically radical projects. Robertson is a founding member of the Synthetic Collective, a group of artists, scientists and cultural researchers working on plastics pollution in the Great Lakes Region and project co-lead on A Museum for Future Fossils, an ongoing “vernacular museum” that responds curatorially to ecological crisis.
Image: Neptune ball collected at Lake Huron, October 1, 2022. Photo by Bruno Sinder. Courtesy of the speaker.
Free admission, all are welcome to attend
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