Event
8 Nov 2021
November 8th @ 9:30AM MST
Jessica Karuhanga and Nehal El-Hadi in Converstation
The Illingworth Kerr Gallery is pleased to present Jessica Karuhanga and Nehal El-Hadi in conversation, hosted on MS Teams.
This event will be available live to AUArts students, staff and faculty.
AUArts students have the opportunity to have a studio visit with Jessica Karuhanga the week of November 8, 2021. Email ikg@auarts.ca by November 4th with an artist statement (200 words), note of interest (100 words), and 5-10 images. Students will be chosen on a first come first served basis.
This presentation is supported in part by the Ellen and Daryl Fridhandler Lecture on Non-Western Visual Art Practice and TD Insurance.
JESSICA KARUHANGA
Jessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage whose work addresses issues of cultural politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, writing, drawing and performances. Through her practice she explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity: illness, rage, grief, desire and longing within the context of Black embodiment.
She is the 2020 – 2021 recipient of Concordia University’s SpokenWeb Artist/Curator In Residence Fellowship. Karuhanga has presented her work at SummerWorks Lab (Toronto, 2020), The Bentway (Toronto, 2019), Nuit Blanche (Toronto, 2018), Onsite Gallery (Toronto, 2018) and Goldsmiths University (London, UK, 2017). She is currently exhibiting at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, TANGLED Disability + Art and Museum London. Karuhanga’s writing has been published by C Magazine, BlackFlash, Susan Hobbs Gallery and Fonderie Darling.
She has been featured in AGO’s Artist Spotlight, i-D, DAZED, Visual Aids, Border Crossings, Exclaim!, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, esse, filthy dreams, Globe and Mail and Canadian Art. She earned her BFA from Western University and MFA from University of Victoria. She lives and works in Toronto, Canada where she is part-time lecturer at Ryerson University.
NEHAL EL-HADI
Nehal El-Hadi is a writer, researcher, and editor whose work explores the intersections between the body, place, and technology. Nehal completed her PhD in Planning at the University of Toronto, where she examined the relationships between user-generated content and everyday public urban life. As a scholar, her hybrid digital/material research methods are informed by her training and experience as a science and environmental journalist. Her writing has appeared in academic journals, general scholarship publications, literary magazines, anthologies, and edited collections. She is currently the Science + Technology Editor at The Conversation Canada and Editor-in-Chief of Studio Magazine.