Papers by Valérie Frappier
Critical Distance Centre for Curators, 2021
The following discussion with artists Alana Bartol, Ileana Hernandez Camacho and Ts̱ēmā Igharas u... more The following discussion with artists Alana Bartol, Ileana Hernandez Camacho and Ts̱ēmā Igharas uncovers each artist's impetus for their featured works in the exhibition Groundwork and how they respectively confront the complexities of extractivism. As embodied action is the driving catalyst for the works presented in the exhibition, the discussion also broaches the role performance plays in their respective practices, and how it can be used as a medium or strategy to bring focus to alternative ways of relating with land and thinking about our environments.
Critical Distance Centre for Curators, 2021
The curatorial introduction to "Groundwork," a group exhibition featuring artists Alana Bartol, I... more The curatorial introduction to "Groundwork," a group exhibition featuring artists Alana Bartol, Ileana Hernandez Camacho and Ts̱ēmā Igharas. Curated by Valérie Frappier at Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, May-August 15, 2021.
OCAD University, 2020
Situated at the intersections of performance, decolonial and ecological theory, this thesis posit... more Situated at the intersections of performance, decolonial and ecological theory, this thesis posits embodied performance strategies as a catalyst for subverting the colonial-capitalist logics of extractivism. Through close readings of the work of contemporary artists Ts̱ēmā Igharas (Tahltan), Otobong Nkanga (Nigerian-born, Antwerp-based), Warren Cariou (Métis and European ancestry), Carolina Caycedo (Colombian mestizx, Los Angeles-based) and Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe), this thesis argues that the performing body translates extractive politics into the immediacy of the senses through the micro and intimate aesthetics of the corporeal to engage in a form of critical public pedagogy. Drawing on the work of scholars Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Laura Levin and Wanda Nanibush, this study queries what submerged perspectives are voiced and made visible in the extractive zone, and frames these perspectives within the current discourse of the Anthropocene. The artists’ land-based praxes, foregrounding Indigenous knowledges, are examined as a type of field research of specific regions’ geopolitics and temporalities—praxes which conceptualize alternative ways of representing and thinking about land through the performance of place-based relationality.
The Senses and Society Journal, 2019
Exhibition review of "Lisa Hirmer: We Are Weather" at the Art Gallery of Guelph (Guelph, Canada),... more Exhibition review of "Lisa Hirmer: We Are Weather" at the Art Gallery of Guelph (Guelph, Canada), curated by Shauna McCabe, 17 January – 7 April 2019
The Senses and Society Journal, 2019
Exhibition review of "Alana Bartol: Orphan Well Adoption Agency" at Latitude 53 (Edmonton, Canada... more Exhibition review of "Alana Bartol: Orphan Well Adoption Agency" at Latitude 53 (Edmonton, Canada), 7 December 2018 – 26 January 2019
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