SALON | No Reading After the Internet. Braiding Theory. View of the event

In conjunction with READING EXERCISES

Tuesday, January 19, 7 pm

SALON | No Reading After the Internet
Braiding Theory

No Reading After the Internet is a salon series dealing with cultural texts, which are read aloud by participants. The particular urgency of the project is in reforming publics and experimenting with the act of reading, as its own media form, in our moment.

As part of the Reading Exercises exhibition, the three founding members of No Reading After the Internet—Amy Kazymerchyk, Alex Muir, and cheyanne turions—will lead a special salon that departs from the #ReadTheTRCReport project entitled Braiding Theory. Braiding Theory is a pedagogical framework coined by Lakota artist Dana Claxton that exercises attention and care in reading, interpretation and synthesis.

Excerpts will be drawn from Erica Violet Lee’s “‘Indigenizing the Academy’ without Indigenous people: who can teach our stories?” published on her website Moontime Warrior, Val Napoleon’s “Thinking About Indigenous Legal Orders” published by the National Centre for First Nations Governance and Zoe Todd’s “Rethinking Aesthetics and Ontology through Indigenous Law: On the work of Val Napoleon and Loretta Todd” published by C Magazine.

Erica Violet Lee is a Cree undergraduate student of philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan. She is an Indigenous feminist, and writes at moontimewarrior.com. Since speaking at the first Idle No More teach-in in 2012, Erica has been recognized as an international youth leader with the movement.

Val Napoleon is the Law Foundation Professor of Aboriginal Justice and Governance at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria. She is from north east British Columbia (Treaty 8) and a member of Saulteau First Nation. She is also an adopted member of the Gitanyow (Gitksan) House of Luuxhon, Ganada (Frog) Clan. Val worked as a community activist and consultant in northwestern BC for over 25 years, specializing in health, education, and justice issues. Her dissertation on Gitksan law and legal theory was awarded the UVIC Governor General’s Gold Medal for best dissertation in 2009.Val’s current research focuses on indigenous legal traditions, indigenous legal theory, indigenous feminism, citizenship, self-determination, and governance.

Zoe Todd (Métis) is from Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) in the Treaty Six Area of Alberta, Canada. She writes about Indigeneity, art, architecture, decolonization and healing in urban contexts. She also studies human-animal relations, colonialism and environmental change in northern Canada. Her art practice incorporates writing, spoken word, beading, drawing and film to tell stories about being Métis in the Prairies. She is a lecturer in Anthropology at Carleton University, a PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and she was a 2011 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar.

Participation in No Reading After the Internet is free and open to everyone, regardless of their familiarity with a text or its author. Texts will be handed out at the salon. No pre-reading or research is required.

At the Gallery

Thursday, January 21, 6 – 8 pm

PUBLIC SEMINAR
Reading as Methodology
At Artexte
2 Sainte-Catherine East, room 301
In French and English

The result of a close collaboration between Artexte and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, this public seminar aims to deepen reflections on the epistemological, cultural, social, political and ethical issues pertaining to reading as methodology. Presented at Artexte in conjunction with the exhibition Reading Exercises, the seminar will feature several speakers (artists, researchers, curators, authors and activists) for whom the practice of reading is a site of experimentation, inquiry, or essential critical engagement. In bringing together these various perspectives on the act of reading and its methodological implications, the discussion hopes to address the relationship between textuality and orality, the process of reading, its contemporary modes and settings, as well as the exchanges among academic, artistic, cultural and community contexts that reading makes possible.

Main participants:

Katrie Chagnon, Max Stern Curator of Research, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, and curator of the exhibition Reading Exercises

Amy Kazymerchyck and cheyanne turions, co-founders of No Reading After the Internet

Alexander Muir, researcher-in-residence at Artexte and co-founder of No Reading After the Internet

Erica Violet Lee, Joseph Murdoch-Flowers and Zoe Todd, creators of the project #ReadtheTRCReport

Chelsea Vowel, inspirer of the #ReadTheTRCReport project

The seminar is open to all and will consist in a series of brief presentations followed by an open discussion. Come early – space is limited!

Saturday, January 23, 12 – 5 pm

READING MARATHON
In conjunction with #ReadTheTRCReport

The reading marathon aims to complete the French playlist of the Calls for Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, in order to extend the reading project in English, which is now entirely available on YouTube.

Since the expected versions of the report in several Indigenous languages are not available yet, everyone who is interested in participating by doing a live translation of some sections of the text in one of those languages is more than welcome.

Drop in and join the marathon!

More info on #ReadTheTRCReport in the Ways of Thinking section.

At the Gallery