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Publication Launch and Discussion

with Hazel Meyer and Lauren Fournier

Dunlop Art Gallery welcomes you to join us for a discussion and launch in celebration of two new publications by Hazel Meyer and Lauren Fournier.

YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/GWrMuIzJyNg 
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Muscle Panic by Hazel Meyer
Produced with the support of Sask Sport Inc, and as part of Hazel Meyer’s exhibition Muscle Panic at Dunlop Art Gallery (October 24, 2020 - January, 2021), this poster is the culmination of a collaboration between Shannon Comerford, Blair Fornwald, Whit Genoway, Rey Hesterman, and Jaye Kovach, who worked with Hazel to engage with the prompt: what do the "Greatest Moments in Sport" look like to LGBTQQIP2SAA identified people? Using images accompanied by visual descriptions, they’ve answered this with a resounding “…well, like everything…”

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (MIT Press) by Lauren Fournier is a comprehensive monograph that poses a real range of considerations for both artistic and literary auto-theory scholarship and practice.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/autotheory-feminist-practice-art-writing-and-criticism 

Hazel Meyer is an artist who works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Her work recovers the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of infrastructure, athletics and illness. Drawing on archival research, she designs immersive installations that bring various troublemakers—lesbians-feminists, gender outlaws, leather-dykes—into a performative space that centres desire, queerness, and sweat.

Recent activations of her work have taken place at La Ferme du Buisson (FR) 2019, Glasgow International Art Biennial (SCT) 2018, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) (QC) 2019, Progress Festival (CA) 2020, the Porn Film Festival Berlin (DE) 2019, and Contemporary Copenhagen (DK) 2021. Hazel presently lives in Vancouver, on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations with their frequent collaborator and partner Cait McKinney and dog Regie.

Lauren Fournier is a writer and artist-curator. Raised as a working-class, white settler on Treaty 4 lands, Saskatchewan, she is currently based in Toronto. Her book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism was recently published by the MIT Press (2021), and her debut novella is forthcoming through Fiction Advocate in San Francisco (2021). She teaches courses on visual concepts, artists' writing, and autotheory and autofiction through the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. She is the director of Fermenting Feminism, an ongoing, site-responsive curatorial experiment that takes place trans-nationally and engages fermentation—the process of microbial transformation—as both a metaphor and material. Lauren’s work has been featured and reviewed in such venues as T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Kunstkritikk, n*paradoxa, A*Desk Critical Thinking, Art the Science, and Texte zur Kunst. She is involved in a large-scale curatorial project for Fall 2021 with the Durham Art Gallery, led by Jaclyn Quaresma, inspired by the speculative fiction writings of Octavia E. Butler, entitled Teacher, Trickster, Chaos, Clay. Her interview with Hazel Meyer, entitled "What It's Like To Grow Up Pour," is forthcoming through Public Parking Journal.

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