Jackie Wang in conversation with cheyanne turions
April 24, 7pm – 9pm
Conversation, in English

The Oblique Cut: a writing workshop with Jackie Wang
April 25, 11am – 5pm
Workshop, in English and French
@ SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art

Jackie Wang in conversation with cheyanne turions
April 24, 7pm – 9pm

Departing from Jackie Wang’s text “Against Innocence; Race, Gender and the Politics of Safety,” Wang and turions will engage the audience in a discussion about the precision of language. Collectively, we will attempt to map how language works to obscure and deflect systemic exercises of power, envisioning tactics to use language more precisely, in order to reveal and dismantle. More

Those attending are encouraged to pre-read “Against Innocence,” which can be downloaded from LIES: A Journal of Materialist Feminism here.

The Oblique Cut: a writing workshop with Jackie Wang
April 25, 11am – 5pm

Free workshop. Participation is limited. To register, please contact SBC Gallery at julia.smith@sbcgallery.ca

Drawing on Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva, Wang will lead a writing workshop that uses Lispector’s idea of the oblique cut as a way of communally exploring the relationship between trauma, the written word, the fleshy body and something Wang calls “the trauma monster.” Together, we will try to enact the cut that casts life as other.

These events are presented as part of Talk Show within SBC’s spring workshop and speaker series, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.