Roundtable Discussion about Landscape: Tania Willard and Harold Rhenisch

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Artists' of BUSH gallery, "Sovereign Sun (series)," 2015

photo emulsion on paper and Indigenous land absorbing the sun and promising a future of self-determination.

Arts roundtable considers the landscape.

Artist and curator Tania Willard and writer Harold Rhenisch will be hosting a roundtable discussion exploring the poetics and politics embedded in the landscape at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on December 5 at 6pm. Willard and Rhenisch will each present a 40 minute slideshow of their work before opening up the discussion to questions from the audience. This event is free of charge.

Tania Willard, from the Secwepemc Nation, will discuss the specificity of place embodied in her collaborative BUSH gallery project, a conceptual space for land based art and action led by Indigenous artists on reserve. Willard’s curatorial work includes co-curating Beat Nation: Art Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture, a national touring exhibition first presented at Vancouver Art Gallery in 2011 and Unceded Territories: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at the Museum of Anthropology with Karen Duffek.

Harold Rhenisch, who writes the blog Okanagan-Okanogan: one country without borders will introduce a series of concepts built on the foundation of self-as-space, lavishly illustrated with photographs from his journeys through the Okanagan, the Pacific Northwest and Iceland. Rhenisch has written thirty books from the Southern Interior since 1974. He won the George Ryga Prize in 2008 for The Wolves at Evelyn. His other grasslands books are the Cariboo meditation Tom Thompson’s Shack (1999) and the orchard memoir, Out of the Interior.

This discussion is generously supported by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan and the City of Kelowna, and produced in partnership with the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art.