Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Saturday, April 1st, 2023 — Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 |
| Time: | 9:00 am — 4:00 pm |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall |
| Audience: | Alumni, Anyone, Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty, Media, Professionals, Prospective Students, Staff, Staff and Faculty |
Carleton University’s new research-creation centre PROTOHYVE: Centre for Innovative Research-Creation has announced it will be hosting its inaugural research symposium, including a group art exhibition on April 1 and 2. The free two-day hybrid event will consist of four round table discussions, catered lunches, and a group exhibition curated by PROTOHYVE at Gallery 101.
Symposium
The symposium is open to students, faculty, staff, curators, artists, and art professionals across so-called Canada. Discussions will include research-creation and ethics; student support, curriculum, and supervision; funding; and working within institutions. Roundtable discussions will be facilitated in person at Carleton University and live streamed via Zoom. PROTOHYVE director Dr. Stéfy McKnight says the symposium is also an opportunity to practise ‘research-(care)ation’. “Research-creation has a history of rethinking tradition in the academy, and centres social justice and activism. However, as we know, institutions continue to privilege whiteness through the marginalisation of queer, Black, Indigenous and People of Colour scholars and artists. Research-(care)ation thinks about how we can create care-full art that disrupts the institution. I am excited to talk more about this during the symposium and come up with strategies that can support marginalised and precarious artist-scholars in our community,” they said. Each day will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is free for the event but required.
Date: April 1 and April 2, 2023.
Location: Carleton University, Richcraft Hall, 9376 University Dr, Ottawa, ON located on the traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin nation.
Registration: www.protohyve.com/registration
Exhibition
In addition to the symposium, PROTOHYVE will be working alongside Gallery 101 to curate an exhibition bringing together research-creationists from across so called Canada. Titled “hyphen (-)”, the exhibition highlights how artistic research can serve as a form of healing justice and care, showcasing and celebrating the timely creatively and scholarly work being created by artists today. hyphen (-) curation is led by international Ph.D. student and art historian Fara, who says the hyphen in research-creation is a space for wonder, conflict, experimentation, and immense possibilities. “Research-creation generates potentials for new ways of thinking, engaging, and understanding the world,” Fara said. hyphen (-) is funded and supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Carleton University.
Date: April 2 to April 29, 2023
Location: Gallery 101, 280 Catherine Street, Ottawa, ON located on the traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin nation.
Featured artists:
Pansee Atta
Alejandro Arauz
Sojung Bahng
Emily Pelstring
Véronique Rousseau
Ashley Snook
Manuel Axel Strain
Donna Szoke
ABOUT PROTOHYVE:
Inspired by a series of Research-Creation roundtables at the University Art Association of Canada (UAAC) PROTOHYVE seeks to create a constellation of artists, curators, scholars, and professionals to share resources across so called Canada. Research-creationists who have attended UAAC Research-Creation Caucus Roundtables have outlined a lack of consistent guidelines for graduate student project assessment; a lack of exhibition space; limited access to research journals and publication opportunities; misunderstandings of research-creation as a methodology from supervisors and colleagues; limited funding opportunities; no training frameworks for undergraduate students practicing research-creation; limited supervision by faculty with experience in research-creation, and minimal examples and support for artist-scholars seeking research ethics board approval. The Research-Creation Caucus roundtables have cultivated and nurtured numerous perspectives and ideas. One of the most urgent demands from participants is the need to share expertise, resources, and facilitate consistent conversations with artist-researchers across institutions.
PROTOHYVE seeks to create a constellation of artists, curators, scholars, and professionals to generate new ways of understanding and framing research-creation in so called Canada. PROTOHYVE is a resource-based centre for research, that invites collaboration between research-creationists and labs across Turtle Island to share ideas, successes, challenges, artwork, and resources.
For further information contact Dr. Stéfy McKnight, Director of PROTOHYVE, protohyve@cunet.carleton.ca, 249 878 7833.