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Celebration Of Authorship Program 2022-2023
(University of Regina Library, 2023) Abrams, Kelly J.; Afolabi, Taiwo; Ashton, Emily; Battis, Jes; Bazzul, Jesse; Buchko, Denée M.; Coupal, Chelsea; Crivea, Jocelyn; Dupeyron, Bruno; Eaton, Emily; Fay, Holly; Farney, Jim; Farrell, Issac; French, Lindsey; Fuchs, Jesse; Garneau, David; Gerbeza, Tea; Germani, Ian; Gibb, Ryland; Grimard, Celeste; Harnish, Garett; Hoang Trung, Kien; Horowitz, Risa; Hurlbert, Margot; Jeffery, Bonnie; King, Anna-Leah; Knight, Lindsay; Knuttila, Murray; Kyabaggu, Ramona; Lavallie, Carrie; Lloyd, Kiegan; Lonie, Kelsey; Lundahl, Bev; Lylyk, Stephen; Marsh, Charity; McNeil, Barbara; Moat, Olivia; Moasun, Festus Yaw; Nestor, Jack J.; Novik, Nuelle; Owusu, Raymond Karikari; Panchuk, Kristie; Petry, Roger; Petry, Yvonne; Phipps, Heather; Ratt, Solomon; Ricketts, Kathryn; Riegel, Christian; Robinson, Katherine M.; Rocke, Cathy; Rollo, Mike; Safinuk, Corey; Saul, Gerald; Schroeter, Sara; Schultz, Christie; Wanda, Seidlikoski Yurach; Sirke, Kara; Sterzuk, Andrea; Stewart, Michelle; Szabados, Béla; Tremblay, Arjun; Whippler, Ryan; White, Judy; Wihak, Mark; Zimmer, Jonathon
Archer Library is proud to unveil the 2022-23 University of Regina Celebration of Authorship Program booklet. This downloadable publication highlights University of Regina authors/creators of books, edited proceedings, sound recordings, musical scores and film or video recordings published over the last year in any format (print or electronic). We encourage you to take a moment to view the program booklet and extend your congratulations to all of the University of Regina students, faculty, staff, and alumni who are being celebrated this year.
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I was about to be them/there
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2023-12) Rajabzadeh, Hoorieh; Horowitz, Risa; Garneau, David
This paper supports my Master of Fine Arts graduation thesis exhibition, I Was About to Be Them/There, presented at the Fifth Parallel Gallery from December 13- 21 in 2023. My MFA exhibition consists of videos of performances, an audio/video installation, and a photograph, through which I convey the experience of being subject to external forces that shape my behavior, thoughts, and emotions. This work offers a metaphoric perspective on my experiences as an Iranian woman, and resonates with the experiences of many other women in our homeland. I aim to share the confusion and paradox that arises from existing in two distinct worlds—here in Regina, tied to Iran—while my loved ones face imminent danger in Iran. I have experienced the simultaneous sensation of being distant from and yet incredibly close to the events unfolding in my country in 2022 and 2023. I Was About to Be Them/There serves as a medium for conveying this bewildering duality and the peril that threatens those dear to me.
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Life, Death, and Life Again
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2021-04) Greenway, Madeleine Alexandra; Truszkowski, Robert; Farrell-Racette, Sherry; Horowitz, Risa; Fournier, Lauren
This paper is in support of the exhibition Propagation, my Master of Fine Arts graduating exhibition that was held at the Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre from February 3rd – March 28th, 2021. The exhibition and paper explore my personal history with my childhood garden, the lineage of knowledge I came to carry, and the food I have grown as a result. Firstly, I describe the exhibition itself, and the logic behind the particulars of its installation. Next, I explore the development of the exhibition through the MFA program, and a few key moments where the work shifted. In the third section I explain the mediums chosen, and why I chose them, as well as the exploration of storytelling and food cultivation as artistic methods. Finally, I discuss contemporary artistic influences on this exhibition.
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Monstrosities: Genderfluidity as Art Practice
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2017-05) Ferguson, Sarah Jean; Carter, Claire; Streifler, Leesa; Garneau, David; Horowitz, Risa
This paper engages the art conducted for my MFA graduating exhibition, Monstrosities. The assumptions and inscriptions of gender which inform bodily meanings are critiqued. As a genderqueer/trans person, the issue of how to represent my genderfluidity, despite my ‘female’ sexed body and its implications, is all consuming. Art provides a means. The desire to represent myself is the central theme of the work in my exhibition. This paper is divided into nine sections. The first, Autobiography, Queerness, and My Creative Process, relates to the background that informs my art practice. I discuss definitions and the forces which inform and propelled the exhibition, and briefly touch on my creative process. The second section, Artistic Influences, touches on the artists that inspired my project and I discuss the challenges I face when applying their approaches in practice. The third section of my paper explores how theories of melancholia, the abject and the monstrous relate to my art practice and photographs. The fourth section, Monstrosities: An Overview, is a summary of my exhibition and its contents, and future plans. In the fourth section, Beginnings, I discuss the starting point of my art practice. The sixth section, On Queering the Female Body, unpacks key theories that relate to my body and my art, as well as my shifting queer identity. The seventh section, Key Gender Theorists, Inspirations, and Influences discusses key gender theories that I drew from during the creation of my exhibition. The eighth section, Phenomenology and Objects as Inspiration discusses how I chose the objects in my photographs. The ninth section, Queering the Appeal of The Photograph describes my relationship to photography and the camera.
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A Shape for Queerness: Glimpses, Loops, Holes, Language
(Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina, 2019-04) Wilson, James Nicholas; Horowitz, Risa; Whalley, Sean; Garneau, David; Streifler, Leesa
A Wreath of Snakes, A Lexicon Devil, A Hole in Time, A Single Thought is a sculptural installation of 24 large-scale drawings and an artist’s book. The work is concerned with the formation of consciousness and the ways that the shared experience of queerness affects notions of time, lineage and orientation. It examines the way queerness creates a non-reproductive lineage which stops, starts and skips across time. This installation is an articulation of the contradictory bumps and associations, both obvious and esoteric, which accompany my prolonged contemplation on the subject of queerness and the making of this work. This support paper is an investigation into the ways drawing exists as a solitary erotic practice which connects bodies across time. The research which supports this work is derived primarily from Queer theorists such as Elizabeth Freeman, Jack Halberstam, Sarah Ahmed, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. It also includes the ideas of post-colonial theorist Édouard Glissant and his investigation of ‘peripheral’ identities. This MFA support paper elucidates a thought process about queerness, time, shapes, holes, orientation, and language.
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Tales from the End of the Earth: An Antarctica and Arctic Symposium
(University of Regina Library, 2024-03-06) Keough, Pat; Keough, Rosemarie; French, Lindsey; Horowitz, Risa; Lawler, Samantha; McManus, Karla