Performing Politics

Aboriginal Performance Art in the Canadian ContextVisiting artist, Jordan Bennett, is on campus for a discussion panel and performance March 16 and 17. The event is free of charge and everyone is welcome.Discussion Panelwith Jordan Bennett, Carla Taunton, Terry Dokis, and Susan Cahill
Friday, 16 March 2012, 5:30-8:30pm
A224, Main Building, Nipissing UniversityPerformance, "How funny was it when...”
by Mi’kmaq Performance Artist Jordan Bennett
Saturday, 17 March 2012, 2:00-2:30pm
Treaty Learning Centre, 3rd floor Library, Nipissing University
Jordan Bennett is a multi-disciplinary visual artist of Mi’kmaq decent who calls the west coast of Newfoundland home. His work is derived from a combination of popular and traditional cultural reflections, which he portrays through his passion for and knowledge of pop culture, traditional craft, and his own cultural practices. He has recently developed an affinity for language, mainly directed towards learning his ancestors’ native tongue of Mi’kmaq. Through the processes of sculpture, digital media, text based media, installation, painting, endurance performance and various others, he strives to push boundaries and play with the ideas of re-appropriation, reclamation, participation and the artifact within traditional aboriginal craft, ceremony, and contemporary culture.
To find out more about Jordan Bennett visit:http://www.jordanbennett.ca/.
The event is brought to you by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Centre of Flexible Teaching and Learning, Cultural Affairs and Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science
For more information, please contact Susan Cahill atsusanca@nipissingu.ca