May 30th is our next event in the Art, Community, Environment workshop series——
Making in Place: Cameraless Filmmaking with Lake Michigan
workshop led by artist naakita f.k.
May 30th, 11am-2pm
Kresge 2351 (Kaplan seminar room)
In this hands-on workshop led by artist naakita f.k., we will explore cameraless filmmaking techniques and create a film together in collaboration with Lake Michigan's ecologies. This workshop is designed for participants of all levels, and no prior knowledge of cameras or filmmaking is needed.
Space for this event is limited. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP by May 26th via email to <gregruffing@u.northwestern.edu>.
naakita f.k. is an interdisciplinary artist based between Zhegagoynak/Chicago and Tio’Tia:Ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Through place-based research and site-specific relations, they consider extractivism, including both resource extraction and extractive ideologies that show up in the wake of violence to land and communities. https://naakitafk.com
ART, COMMUNITY, AND ENVIRONMENT is a Kaplan Research Workshop co-convened by Rebecca Zorach, Department of Art History, and Hollyamber Kennedy, Department of Art History. Greg Ruffing is the Graduate Student Assistant. This research workshop brings together faculty and graduate students interested in the intersections among art and architectural practice, environmental studies, and communities. We seek to broaden definitions of knowledge production beyond the academic to include Indigenous and oppositional knowledge, collaborative practice, reparative design, and activist research. We hope to learn from both historical studies and from current, “front-line” experiences, asking how they create democratic and non-hierarchical knowledge communities, and what potential for social, artistic, and environmental efficacy they possess.
Cost: FREE
Greg Ruffing
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