MAGGIE FLYNN: PAYDIRT

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Maggie Flynn, "Paydirt," 2017

M:ST HOT OIL FUNDRAISER

PAYDIRT - MAGGIE FLYNN

SUNDAY AUGUST 20TH, 2 - 4PM

Maggie Flynn hosts A Findings Report and Q+A as the culmination of her month long performance "Paydirt" at Stride Gallery. Extractive industries occupy substantial portions of Canada’s political discourse, GDP, and physical geography. Certain populations have intimate understandings of these industries – investors, politicians, migrant and domestic workers, displaced communities in Canada and abroad, and Indigenous communities with longer relationships to the lands being exploited. But even for those paying attention, there are aspects of extractive industries in Canada that remain shady, inaccessible. The sight lines that do exist are obstructed by polarizing rhetoric.

Paydirt is a call for crowdsourcing under-the-radar information on extractive industries. Artist Maggie Flynn seeks information about people/places/political influences involved in Canadian companies that deal in oil & gas, mining, or other forms of extraction. Flynn will compile, distill, and verify information for redistribution. Audiences may participate by contributing a tip*, or purchasing a piece of information.

This event is free, participatory, and open to the public, presented as part of HOT OIL, M:ST's third annual fundraiser for the performative arts. Donations will be accepted at the event. For more information on the fundraiser and to donate online go to: www.mstfestival.org/hotoil/

ARTIST BIO

MAGGIE FLYNN is an artist and writer. Her practice oscillates between hard pragmatism and deep pleasure.These feelings are explored in forms such as artist books, performances, and installations. Maggie has presented projects at the Art Gallery of York University, Intersite Visual Arts Festival, the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, the Rhubarb Festival, Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro, and the New Gallery. Originally from Toronto, she recently relocated to Medicine Hat where she works as Museum Coordinator at Medalta.In the context of this project it’s relevant to mention that Maggie has engaged in and learned from activism around Canadian extractive industries on and off for 9 years.