Reconstruction Vol. 15, No. 1
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Contributors
Sharlene Khan is a South African visual artist whose work often incorporates a range of media that generate installations and performances that focus on the socio-political realities of a post-apartheid society and the intersectionality of race-gender-class. She uses masquerading as a postcolonial strategy to interrogate her South African heritage as well as the constructedness of identity via rote education, art discourses, historical narratives and popular culture. She holds a PhD (Arts) from Goldsmiths, University of London. [article]
Sandra E. Lim holds a PhD in Art and Design (Moving Image) from the University of Brighton in the UK, with an MA in Film studies from UCD, Ireland. Her doctoral dissertation "Interpreting Urban Space and the Everyday Through Video Practice" explores through a performative and editorial style of documentary practice, the commingling of trauma and political propaganda as an everyday urban experience, in the context of the London Tube terrorist bombings. A written portion of this research was recently published in JMP Screenworks. She is also an artist-documentarian, and currently teaches a course on "Politics and Film" at Ryerson University in Toronto Canada. [article]
Meryl McMaster is a Canadian-based artist and a graduate in photography from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her work explores questions of identity, representation, perception, myth, memory and the environment. [art]
Ana Laura Pauchulo completed her Ph.D studies at the University of Toronto where she examined the pedagogical role of public remembrance of the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina. She is currently involved in a number of projects with community organizations in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) including developing a community archive with members of the Latin American community. She has also worked with Native Counselling Services of Alberta on community based remembrance projects on the legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada. She currently sits on the Edmonton Historical Board and the Board of the Edmonton Historical Council.Ana Laura Pauchulo completed her Ph.D studies at the University of Toronto where she examined the pedagogical role of public remembrance of the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina. She is currently involved in a number of projects with community organizations in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) including developing a community archive with members of the Latin American community. She has also worked with Native Counselling Services of Alberta on community based remembrance projects on the legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada. She currently sits on the Edmonton Historical Board and the Board of the Edmonton Historical Council. [article]
Rev. Michael Prieur received his Doctorate in Theology from San' Anselmo in Rome and has been teaching Moral and Sacramental Theology at St. Peter's Seminary in London, Ontario since 1969. As a specialist in bioethics for over 35 years, he is consultant to St. Joseph's Health Care in London, the Catholic Health Association of Canada, and Canadian Catholic bishops. [article]
Matthew Ryan Smith is a freelance writer, independent curator, and educator based in London, Ontario. He received his Ph.D. in art and visual culture from the University of Western Ontario in 2012. Currently, Matthew is a Sessional Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Toronto, Mississauga and the University of Western Ontario. His writings have appeared in several Canadian and international art publications including Canadian Art Magazine, C Magazine, PREFIX Photo, FUSE Magazine, and Afterimage, in addition to academic journals and exhibition catalogues. His forthcoming article "Relational Maneouvres in Autobiographical Video Art" will appear in Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. [article]
Brendan M. Sullivan received his Ph. D. in Art History in 2014 from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. His dissertation “’The Remembrance of Good Men and the Stories of the Deeds of Valiant Men Justly Inflames and Excites the Hearts of Young Knights’: Representing History in the Fifteenth Century," which focuses on the intersection between fifteenth-century Flemish manuscript illumination and twenty-first century theories of affect, historiography, and failure, has been repeatedly recognized for the exceptional length of its title. He is currently an academic advisor at New York University’s College of Arts and Science, and is working on a research project on the late-sixteenth-century illuminator Simon Bening. [article]
Ricky Varghese received his PhD in Sociology in Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is on the advisory board of Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture and has most recently guest edited an issue of the same journal on the theme of the "ruin". He is a trained social worker and works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in downtown Toronto. [article]
Ellyn Walker is a writer and curator based in Toronto. Born and raised on Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Wendat land, Ellyn is a settler of Scottish and Italian
ancestry whose work focuses on modes of cross-cultural engagement within the arts as potential sites of resistance, reimagination and reconciliation
between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Her writing has been published in such venues as Prefix Photo, PUBLIC, Fuse Magazine,
Journal of Curatorial Studies and C Magazine, amongst others. Ellyn is currently the Curatorial Fellow at Charles Street Video and a PhD candidate
in Cultural Studies at Queen's University. [article]
James A. Wren has spent much of the last decade confronting the creative process. In addition to writing for the stage, he experiments with Abstract Expressionism in his use of oils and multi-media, pushes the boundaries of word craft with his poetry, and composes outrageous cacophony for wind and string ensembles. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from The University of Washington, a DPhil in modern Japanese literature and cultural studies from Niigata University (Japan), and a DSc in immunogenetics and Silk Road Studies from The Chinese University of Mining and Technology (P.R.C.). [article]
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