Art Now with Tomas Jonsson

This talk will focus on installation and performative practices that use personal and familial narratives as a way to understand, produce, and unravel conceptions of place. Through his artistic practice, Tomas Jonsson is involved in a long-term engagement with the local landscape and history of Calgary to interrogate larger conditions of urban development, migration, colonial histories, and logics in which his presence is implicated. Using simple transactions as forms for social encounter and engagement, he is interested in how points of exchange can be imbued with other forms of value. About Tomas Jonsson Tomas Jonsson is an artist, curator, and writer interested in issues of social agency in processes of urban growth and transformation. Jonsson has produced several projects in Calgary addressing the city’s urban transformation, including sites such as The East Village and Hillhurst Sunnyside. He has also curated, presented, and performed work in Canada and internationally, including Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto), Suvilahti (Helsinki), and MoKS (Mooste, Estonia). He is currently the artistic director of the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival (southern Alberta).
Location:
Art Building and Parkade Room 672
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/art-now-tomas-jonsson