Legs: Artist Talk by Christine Fellows, Chantel Mierau and Jennifer Still
January 24, 2024
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. CT on Zoom
EVENT RECORDING WITH ASL INTERPRETATION
In conjunction with the collaborative exhibition legs, Gallery 1C03 is pleased to host a discussion about this innovative project with exhibiting multi-disciplinary artists Christine Fellows, Chantel Mierau and Jennifer Still. The conversation will be moderated by University of Winnipeg English professor Dr. Sandy Pool.
Following the discussion, there will be an opportunity for questions from the audience.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Christine Fellows finds music in sounds we tend to take for granted: the voices of the people we love, the sounds of the spaces we move through as part of our daily lives. Although she identifies primarily as a songwriter and performer, her practice includes poetry, spoken word, paper collage, stop motion video, sound design, and composition. Over two decades, she has released 8 solo albums, and toured internationally both as a solo artist and as a collaborator, from the Canadian Arctic to Southern Australia. For her latest solo album Stuff We All
Get (2022) she created 13 songs alongside 13 stop-motion videos.
Chantel Mierau is a visual artist working in video and performance. Her work examines the everyday, and a frequent focal point in her work is the body and clothing. By strategically using repetition to either lull and comfort, or to build tension and suspense, Mierau reckons with the comfort and discomfort of living in a body. Since graduating from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011, she has exhibited locally and nationally. Her recent work "3 Chores" was exhibited in Winnipeg at Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Art in 2019 and was subsequently featured in BlackFlash Magazine in 2020.
Jennifer Still composes poems with physicality. She is the author of several handmade chapbooks and three poetry books, Comma (Book*hug), Girlwood (Brick Books) and Saltations (Thistledown). legs is a limited-edition chapbook with Baseline Press (2022) and winner of the 2021 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. In 2020 she collaborated with Christine Fellows on "I Write with Fossils", a video-poem exploration, and the live-action sewing video "Close Call" with Chantel Mierau. She was the 2015 Carol Shields Writer-in-Residence at the University of Winnipeg where her first line of legs remains looped through a ceiling tile.
Sandy Pool (she/they) is a queer essayist, poet and Professor of Creative Writing. Her first collection of poetry, Exploding Into Night was nominated for The Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Her second collection, Undark: An Oratorio was nominated for Ontario’s Trillium Book Award for Poetry, an Alberta Book Award, and a Toronto Arts Award. Her third book, If Body: Freedom a book of lyric nonfiction essays is currently represented by Aevitas Creative Management in New York. Essays from this book have been anthologized in The Best Canadian Essays 2024 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has also been awarded fellowships to Yaddo, The Berton House, The Siena Arts Institute and the Dora Maar House in France. She has taught English and Creative Writing at a variety of post- secondary institutions in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom including teaching in the MFA program at The University of East Anglia in Norwich UK. She divides her time between Canada and New York.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Gallery 1C03 is on Treaty 1 Territory, the homeland of the Red River Métis and the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Ininew, Anishininew, Dakota and Dene peoples. Our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.