Worlding Public Cultures
𝘳𝘦* : 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 / 𝘤𝘳é𝘦𝘳 / 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 / 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦 / 𝘮𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 / 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 /…
rudi aker, Pansee Atta, Amin Rehman, Swapnaa Tamhane
Co-curated by Manar Abo Touk, Lorraine Doucet Sisto et Varda Nisar
March 9 - April 6, 2023
re*
/ imagining
/ créer
/ building
/ faire
/ mapping
/ connaissance
/ …
re* allows for the possibilities to unlearn and relearn the diverse world-making practices that continue to exist and thrive, despite colonial attempts to eradicate them under the guise of progress. The exhibition is conceived as a critical and collective reflection on the themes of worlding and world-making. We understand world-making as an endeavor that creates life, cosmos, heaven and earth; a sacred act contributing to the pluriversality of modes of being; a practice that has always guarded itself against the worlding desires of colonial, heteronormative and patriarchal modes of being.
re* offers a counterpoint to colonial histories and archival practices. The artworks included in the exhibition reimagine and redefine ideas around time, space, land and languages. The works of artists rudi aker, Pansee Atta, Amin Rehman, and Swapnaa Tamhane foreground different possibilities for reclaiming languages and histories, resisting and refuting imposed geographies, and reframing pasts and futures. re* looks at rethinking concepts and ideas as they explore different forms of re*, rudi presents ideas (re) imagining the land through poetry and textile beading, while Pansee presents ideas around rebuilding mapping concepts in the world and its historical implications through animation and video works. Meanwhile Swapnaa’s artwork explores redefining and re inscribing the self through textile, and finally Amin’s work continues to reclaim and reimagine how languages are perceived.
Taking place at the Concordia University Webster Library and FOFA Art Gallery on unceded Kanien'kehá:ka traditional territory, re* is part of the Worlding Public Cultures 2023 Tiohtià:ke/Montreal colloquium. The exhibition re* is part of the “Worlding Tiohtià:ke/Montreal: Bridging Knowledges, Practices, and Beings”/ « Mondes de Tiohtià:ke/Montréal : Mettre en relation les savoirs, les pratiques et les êtres » colloquium and is exhibited at the FOFA Gallery and the Webster Library. L’exposition *re se poursuit à la Galerie FOFA et la bibliothèque Webster de l’Université Concordia. Celle-ci fait partie du colloque “Worlding Tiohtià:ke/Montreal: Bridging Knowledges, Practices, and Beings”/ « Mondes de Tiohtià:ke/Montréal : Mettre en relation les savoirs, les pratiques et les êtres ».
reworlding
reimagining
recréer
rebuilding
refaire
remapping
reconnaissance
relation
recenter
reconstruction
rethink
reinvention
rehearsal
resistance
return
reply
What are the different approaches to worldmaking?
Comment les pratiques créatives et les expériences permettent-elles de réimaginer le monde?
Who previously took on this task of worlding?
What is a world?
Qu’est-ce qu’un monde?
Qui a le droit de créer un monde?
Is world-making itself a mode of resistance?
Pouvons-nous faire le monde à nous seul?
Is worldmaking a personal experience geared towards the collective?
How do you know other worlds?
Why do you need to know other worlds?
What do you do when you can’t enter other worlds?
When other worlds are not meant for you?
What happens when you don’t have the vocabulary to make sense of a world?
What happens when you unlearn what you have been taught?
