Community, Connection, and Conversation | Mimi Gellman

On March 30, artist and ECU faculty member Mimi Gellman will speak on Indigenous Protocol and Respect in institutional spaces and art + design practices.

Mimi will speak as part of the Community, Connection, and Conversation lecture series — a guest-speaker series facilitated by the BIPOC Graduate Student Caucus. The series aims to provide pathways of support, connection and dialogue amongst the BIPOC Graduate Students of Emily Carr University of Art + Design with professionals in both design and art.

Mimi’s interdisciplinary work explores her interests in phenomenology and technologies of intuition through an embodied practice of walking and mapping, and through works and installations that point to the existence of the animacy and agency of objects. The cross-cultural dialogue exemplified in her work suggests a pre-existing connection to the other-than-human worlds. It is her cosmological orientation, in other words, her Ojibwe/Métis worldview and the language that expresses it that predisposes her to be open to the reality of the spirit and life of objects and their ability to communicate across diverse thresholds.

Please note: This talk is open to all currently enrolled graduate students at Emily Carr University.