Tomas Jonsson: Home Turf, Performative engagement by appointment

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Calgary Central Library 800 3 Street SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 2E7

In this performative installation Calgary-based artist Tomas Jonsson observes the intertwining relationships between family, land, narrative, and memory. Through one-on-one engagement with archival materials from his family's personal collection, Jonsson reflects on personal relationships to land, and development in Calgary.

Tomas Jonsson is an artist, curator, and writer interested in issues of social agency in processes of urban growth and transformation. He has curated, presented, and performed work in Canada and internationally, including Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto), Suvilahti (Helsinki), and MoKS (Mooste, Estonia). Tomas received his BFA in 2000 from the University of Calgary. In 2009, he participated in the Border Cities Kolleg at the Bauhaus Institute in Dessau, Germany, where he developed projects with creative and precarious communities in Tallinn and Helsinki. He is currently an MFA Candidate at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. 

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Calgary Central Library 800 3 Street SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 2E7
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