Date: March 14, 2012
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
Location: Millennium Library (251 Donald Street)
Cost: free for ACI members; $5 for non-members

Topic: Do Less Slowly

Sick with hurry, sick with time, our culture’s addiction to speed is engraved at the deepest level of the mind. The maxim that speed equals power has many under its adrenaline-induced spell. The tentacles of this vast machinery connect to all societal spheres, creating a desire and craving for acceleration everywhere. Is it possible to resist this tidal wave? Radical slowness may be one possible counterpoint in a world where the mechanisms of innovation and power are running out of control.

While productivity and success are the predominant mottos of our time, the growing bombardment and cacophony of the world around us as well as the world within is depleting and unsustainable, and greatly jeopardizes our well being. As a result, more and more people are recognizing the value and necessity of slowness. The slow movement has become a worldwide phenomenon that is transforming cities everywhere, from food production to food consumption, to health, sex, work, leisure, education, transportation, childrearing, urban planning, and the environment.

As a forum for discussion and experimentation, this workshop will provide participants tools and tactics for creating slow cities and slow lives. Taking the shape of a slowness think tank, our aim will be to find pathways to finding slowness in the everyday, allowing it to infiltrate and transform our world. A “Slow” List will be gleaned from our discussion and participants will have the opportunity to enact “slow” interventions during the workshop. This invitation to slowness will be a catalyst for unexpected and practical applications of slowness in people’s everyday lives.

Presenter: Dominique Rey

Dominique Rey immerses herself in the world she is using as material, whether that means living with exotic dancers in South Carolina for her series Selling Venus/Vénus au miroir (her Photo Essay from this body of work published in Border Crossings won a Gold Medal at the National Magazine Awards in 2005); or working on Les Filles de la Croix, a five-year long project on a disappearing order of nuns that has taken her to Brazil, Argentina, and France. Her fascination with the representation of the other, the marginal figure, plunges inward in her newest work Erlking.

Dominique Rey works in a number of media; she is a painter; a photographer; a video artist; and a performance artist. She has shown her work internationally. Her solo exhibitions include Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Clark Gallery (Montreal), Michael Gibson Gallery (London, ON), Alternator Gallery (Kelowna), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Truck Gallery (Calgary), Gallery One One One (University of Manitoba), and Gallery 1C03 (University of Winnipeg). Dominique Rey has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and the Ricard Foundation. Her work has been reviewed in the Globe & Mail, Border Crossings, Frieze, Canadian Art, and the Winnipeg Free Press. Prior to her MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute, she obtained an MFA in photography from Bard College in 2007. Dominique Rey was named Winnipeg’s Visual Arts Ambassador for the 2010 Cultural Capital of Canada and she was a long list nominee for the 2011 Sobey Art Award.

www.dominiquerey.com

To register, contact Lisa at 927-2787 or admin@creativemanitoba.ca.