Here Be Dragons: Gisele Amantea and Kamal Al-Solaylee in Conversation

Here Be Dragons: Gisele Amantea and Kamal Al-Solaylee in Conversation

Categories: General, Panel Discussions, Visual Arts | Intended for

Monday, November 12, 2018

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Add to calendar

Carleton University Art Gallery

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Fiona Wright, 6135202120, fiona.wright@carleton.ca

Registration

No registration required.

Cost

Free

About this Event

Host Organization: Carleton University Art Gallery
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In her site-specific installation Aleppo, Syria December 17, 2016, Montreal-based artist Gisele Amantea questions the political effectiveness of photographs from conflict zones, but particularly the deluge of images from the Syrian Civil War. By radically altering our physical relationship to a news photograph of a ruined section of Aleppo that she visited before the war, Amantea asks us to insert ourselves into the image and thereby reconsider our connection to it and the place it represents.

Join her for a public conversation with journalist and professor Dr. Kamal Al-Solaylee, author of the national bestselling memoir Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for the CBC’s Canada Reads. His latest book Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone) was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Awards for Nonfiction, the Trillium Book Award and won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome! CUAG is an accessible space, with barrier-free washrooms and elevator.

Discount parking passes ($4.00 flat rate) will be available for sale at the tunnel entrance from 6:45 p.m. Please see the visiting page for directions.

Carleton University Art Gallery
St. Patrick's Building
http://cuag.ca
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