//November 29th, 2024
//2:00-3:30 PM
//GEM Lab, FB 630.15
//1250 rue Guy
About the event: Artist Caroline St. Laurent will join us in the GEM Lab to share and discuss her work, which explores the intersections of gender, marginalized identities, and sports. She will present a selection of artworks, including excerpts from her latest video project Tandem: Portrait of Paracyclists Shawna Ryan and Joanie Caron, recently exhibited at Oboro. The talk/screening will be followed by a short Q&A period.
Caroline St-Laurent is a queer visual artist specializing in the intersection of arts and sports from a feminist perspective. In her multidisciplinary, performance-based video practice, she collaborates with athletes, professional or amateur sportswomen, and performing artists from different fields to question our culture of performance, as well as the stress and inequitable relationships it breeds. Her work has been shown in individual and collective exhibitions in Quebec and abroad, in live art events as well as video festivals.
About Fieldwork: Given media studies’ preoccupation with industry, technology, performance, fandom, labour, surveillance, and the politics of race, gender, and class, sports—as practice, politics, and entertainment—are a key site for addressing questions that animate our field. As media transform sport and vice versa, these questions are increasingly pertinent. Over the course of several sessions, Fieldwork will present a selection of moving image works–movies, television, artists’ films and videos, etc–that bring together media and sports, as well as recent scholarship on sports/media.
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