Visiting Artist Lecture: Alize Zorlutuna

Alize Zorlutuna is an interdisciplinary queer artist, writer and educator whose work explores relationships to land, culture and the more-than-human, while thinking through history, ancestral wisdom and healing. Moving between Tkarón:to and Anatolia (present-day Turkey) both physically and culturally throughout their life has informed Alize’s practice—making them attentive to spaces of encounter. Bringing together material practices rooted in Anatolian textiles, ceramics, and marbling, with contemporary mediums, they forge new directions for considering diasporic relationships to place and belonging. Alize enlists poetics and a sensitivity to materials in works that span video, installation, printed matter, performance and sculpture. Conjuring earth, air, water, and spirit, Alize collages mediums, methods, and geographies. The body and its sensorial capacities are central to their work. 

This talk is free and open to the public, all are welcome. Registration required. If you have accommodation needs, please let us know through the registration form or contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca.

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. The theme of this year's series, Futures Otherwise: Memory, Myth and the Politics of Tomorrow, invites artists to share insights into their respective practices exploring themes including Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurisms, diasporic mythology, techno-utopian, queer temporalities, and beyond. These artists engage with the future not just as speculative, but as a site of resistance, healing, memory and radical re-imagining. 

This is a seated event. The classroom is wheelchair accessible.