Art NOW series featuring Nicole Burisch

October 28 | Noon | University Recital Hall
Free admission, everyone welcome

Burisch will present on her practice as a contemporary art curator and writer, touching on recent curatorial projects, her research into the politics of craft, and her current work incorporating sustainable practices into exhibitions at the FOFA Gallery.

Nicole Burisch is a curator, critic, and cultural worker. She is a settler of German/Scottish/Irish/English descent, born and raised in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) and currently living and working in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang (Montréal). Her work focuses on discourses of craft, feminism, performance, collaboration, labour, and materiality within contemporary art. She has written extensively on contemporary art, craft, and performance art with over 40 published texts in catalogues, magazines, and journals. Her research into curatorial strategies for politically engaged craft practices is included in milestone publications The Craft Reader (Berg) and Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke University Press) and she co-edited The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art, and Design (Berg). Over the course of her career, she has organized dozens of exhibitions and has worked with organizations including the National Gallery of Canada, Centre [3] for Artistic + Social Practice, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Optica, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, She Works Flexible, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Artexte, Walter Phillips Gallery, The New Gallery, Centre des arts actuels Skol, and the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival. She is currently the Director of the FOFA Gallery at Concordia University.

Image: I’ve Only Known My Own, installation view, 2017, Optica, Montreal, QC. Photo credit: Paul Litherland. Courtesy of the speaker.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.