Anatomy of a Protest: The Art of Infiltration Panel Discussion / Week 9 of The Politics and Poetics of Visibility

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WEDNESDAY. Join us for this lecture to mark the ninth and final week of the The Politics and Poetics of Visibility event series.

PLEASE NOTE THE UPDATED LOCATION INFORMATION: This event has been moved to the University of Toronto Art Centre

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12th, 7:00 pm

“Anatomy of a Protest: The Art of Infiltration” Panel Discussion with Wendy Coburn, Jane Doe, Gary Kinsman and Lesley Wood

Moderated by Lisa Steele

UTAC art lounge

Reception to follow

Wendy Coburns first major solo exhibition in Toronto centres on her recently completed video “Slut Nation: Anatomy of a Protest,” which revisits the worlds first Slutwalk protest. Grass-roots and spontaneous, the 2011 protest offered an important rebuttal of a Toronto Police officers comments at a safety and security panel at York University, drawing attention to the ways in which gender stereotyping diverts the focus from the perpetrators of violence, and blames survivors of sexual assault instead. The protests critique of the persistence of rape culture inspired countless satellite protests across the globe. Coburns reconstruction of the 2011 protest highlights the movement of an organized group of provocateurs, including their representation in the media, as they march three blocks from Queens Park to the Toronto Police Headquarters. Bringing together footage and photographs taken by citizen journalists, the media, and the artists friends, Coburns work draws parallels to the haunting history of the infiltration of protests in Toronto, including those following the gay bath-house raids in 1981 through to the largest mass arrests of citizens in Canada at the G20 in 2010.

Ultimately, Coburns expansive body of work poses a series of questions related to freedom of assembly, the critical role of protest, and tactics used to undermine social justice organizing and positive social change.

More information can be found here: http://jmbgallery.ca/eventsWendyCoburn.html

This event has been generously supported by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.

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The Politics and Poetics of Visibility is a weekly event series occasioned by the fall exhibitions program at the University of Toronto Art Centre and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. The Politics and Poetics of Visibility features an international and interdisciplinary program of lectures, discussions, performances, and screenings on the subject of queer politics, self-representation, and social justice.

For a complete schedule of events, please visit: http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/index.php/events-mainmenu-98

For a detailed list of upcoming exhibitions please visit: www.utac.utoronto.ca

For more information please contact: Daniella Sanader, Curatorial Assistant: 416-978-5488 or daniella.sanader@utoronto.ca

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