chaos-monde
SCA MA SYMPOSIUM
Thursday, December 5, 2024, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre
149 W. Hastings ST., Vancouver
“The aesthetics of the universe assumed pre-established norms; the aesthetics of chaos-monde is the impassioned illustration and refutation of these.”
–Glissant, Poetics of Relation.
There is a trembling that, in its sudden and tenuous appearance, destabilizes our perceptions. It transcends the skin, the “fourth wall,” and the hard edges of received knowledge. Trembling thought slips through the breach—of history, convention, discipline—to insist on different arrangements of the possible. It provokes a return to the scene, a re-reading of the text; it troubles the edges of performance and offers a glimpse of photography’s errant note; it reveals the sacred in painting and amplifies new gestures of protest yet undone by the state. To tremble is always to tremble with: to ask, in common, what chaos-monde might rebuild.
The 2024 MA Symposium presents research by cohort members Rachel Silver Maddock, Joshua Segun-Lean, Sammy Kai Yee Chan, Michelle (Ziqi) Fu and Parastoo Pirasteh Fard. The evening will consist of 10-minute presentations by each scholar followed by a short Q&A session. We warmly invite you to come witness and revel in our research!
Schedule
- 5:30 PM: doors, food & music
- 6:00 PM: presentations
- 7:30 PM: mingle