Roewan Crowe: Lifting Stone
Curated by Blair Fornwald, Assistant Curator
Performance by Winnipeg artist Roewan Crowe.
Additional Information
In Lifting Stone, artist Roewan Crowe invites you to join her in a desert landscape for an intimate encounter with poetic text. Performing excerpts from her book Quivering Land, a rather queer Western that attempts to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization, she creates a space of vulnerability and connection. The artist invokes Leslie Feinberg and their work on “stone butch” to articulate a queer femme notion of "stone," opening up an exploration of art encounters that contemplate non-physical touching and the act of being touched.
Artist Roewan Crowe was born under the big skies of Saskatchewan and raised in scofflaw Alberta. Crowe left the prairies to deepen her understanding of healing, art, and feminism and to complete graduate studies at OISE, U of Toronto. Her art and writing focus on queer feminist reclamation practices. She lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Presented in partnership with the University of Regina, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance Interdisciplinary Studies Program – Department of Visual Arts and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Talk is part of the University of Regina Creative Technologies MediaLab Think Tank Series.
Roewan Crowe, Lifting Stone, 2015, performance, Feminist Act Conference. Photo: Selmin Kara
When
2017, Apr 28 2017, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where
Dunlop Central Gallery,
Interest
Performance, Past