Artist Talk by Rachel Rozanski

Rachel Rozanski is an interdisciplinary artist and PhD student whose creative research explores concepts of restoration and repair in environmental studies and disability studies. Through residency projects in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Iceland, she has collaborated with researchers and been inspired by scientific and land-based studies of permafrost degradation, pollution, and adaptations for the Anthropocene. Using drawing, photography, and video, Rozanski portrays the creative survival of people, plants, and animals in sick bodies and sick Lands, creating documentary art that is accessible and experiential. Her work has been exhibited in galleries internationally and across Canada including PAVED arts, Prefix Circuit Gallery, Two Rivers Gallery, the Canada Council for the Arts Ajagemo gallery, and Artspace Gallery for CONTACT Photography Festival.

This talk is free and open to the public, all are welcome. If you have accommodation needs, please contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca.

U of T Scarborough students attending for course credit should register here.

This talk is part of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery & Studio Art program, Department of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. This semester's series addresses the urgency of the climate crisis and the effect of human actions on the environment, inviting artists to talk about the ways in which their practice engages with the topic of climate justice, and the unlikely collaborators needed in order to shift our mindsets, practices, and conversations about how we live our lives.

This program takes place in Rm AA160, Arts & Administration Building, U of T Scarborough. This is a seated event. The room is wheelchair accessible.