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February 16, 2022

Writer’s Collective of Canada

Writing Workshop

Canada, Finland

In collaboration with the Writers Collective of Canada, The Power Plant presents a series of free exploratory writing workshops.

Sasha Huber exhibition

Sasha Huber, still of Louis Who? What you should know about Louis Agassiz, 2010. Video, 3:50 mins. Commissioned by the Capacete in Rio de Janeiro for the 29th São Paulo Biennale 2010. Photo: Calé. Courtesy the artist

This event is a Nordic Spotlight, part of Nordic Bridges.

Overview

For the first of the three sessions, participants will respond to visual cues and prompts inspired by artworks by Sasha Huber on view at The Power Plant in the Sasha Huber: YOU NAME IT exhibition open from February 5 – May 01, 2022, and curated by the associate curator of The Power Plant, Noor Alé. Participants will be invited to share their writing in order to receive positive feedback from their peers.

Writer’s Collective of Canada celebrates every voice, welcoming writers of all levels. Trained volunteer facilitators lead the workshops and create a brave space to connect through story.  

The workshop will be facilitated by a Writer’s Collective of Canada facilitator and Joséphine Denis, TD Curator of Education and Outreach Fellow.

About Joséphine Denis

Born and raised in Port-au-Prince and New York, Joséphine Denis is a curator and writer whose practice centres on BIPOC communities creating and narrating our own spaces. She advocates for Black diasporic art, critical interactions and institutional transformations through which artists and the public can co-create effective networks of radical socio-political change. Denis is the TD Curator of Education and Outreach Fellow at The Power Plant.

About Sasha Huber

Sasha Huber is a Swiss-Haitian artist who lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. In her lens and performance-based practice, Huber addresses the politics of memory and belonging, particularly concerning colonial residue left in the environment. Her major solo exhibition, YOU NAME IT, was presented at Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (2021), and it will travel to The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2022); Autograph, London (2022) and Turku Art Museum (2023). She has participated in international exhibitions, including the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014) and the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010). Huber is completing her Ph.D. studies at the Department of Art and Media at the Zurich University of the Arts. She holds an MA from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. 

Dates & Times

February 16
2pm
120 mins

Keywords Talk/Storytelling