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Deconstructing “The God of Gods”: A Canadian Play
November 19, 2019 at 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
| Location: | 272/274 Residence Commons |
| Audience: | Current Students |
Deanna Bowen is a Black Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist whose auto-ethnographic practice examines race, migration, historical writing and authorship. Bowen makes use of a repertoire of artistic gestures in order to define the Black body and trace its presence and movement in place and time. Her work involves rigorous examination of her family lineage and their connections to the Black Prairie pioneers of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the Creek Negroes and All-Black towns of Oklahoma, the extended Kentucky/Kansas Exoduster migrations and the Ku Klux Klan.
In her talk, Deanna Bowen will discuss her current work God of Gods: A Canadian Play. In it, she revisits a play staged by members of Canada’s artistic elite at Hart House in 1922, which projected the horrors of war into a loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet — using ‘native’ motifs and “red face.” Her film enacts dialogue with Indigenous writers and artists John G. Hampton, Peter Morin, Lisa Myers, Archer Pechawis, and cheyanne turions. She will also talk briefly (and bring copies) of her new book project “Other Places: Reflections of Media Arts in Canada.” (PUBLIC Books, 2019).
Time: 6:00 Refreshments with formal talk beginning 6:30
Location: Residence Commons (CO) Conference Rooms 272 & 274
(These rooms face Campus Avenue in the Residence Commons building. Parking is available in Lot 18 at the intersection of University Drive and Campus Avenue).
For more information: sics@carleton.ca
Additional Information:
There’s a timely article in Canadian Art:
https://canadianart.ca/features/blackface-brownface-and-redface-in-the-arts-a-bibliography/
There are also research resources for the show:
- Exhibition brochure w/ Maya Wilson Sanchez’s exhibition essay: http://bit.ly/2MAtX8k
- Bibliography of essays/books for further research of the issues raised in the show: http://bit.ly/2IPoFES
Biographies of the social/political elite players highlighted in the show: http://bit.ly/33jZguK
Thank you to our co-sponsors:
Sociology/Anthropology
English
ICLSAC
History
Gender studies
Communication and Media Studies
Legal Studies
Geography and Environmental Studies
Institute of Political Economy
Migration and Diaspora
Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA)