ARTIST’S TALK with MARINA ROY
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
7:00 pm (PDT)
All ages, FREE
Join us on Zoom for an artist’s talk with Marina Roy to learn more about her cross-disciplinary art practice and ongoing investigations into the intersection between materials, history, language, and ideology. Roy states, “[t]he work addresses the need for a posthuman/nonhuman perspective, counter to the reigning tendencies toward human centric hubris. Humour is explored through a corporeal register: humans’ underlying animality and mortality, as well as the absurdity of humanist moral positions vis‑à ‑vis life on this planet.”
Marina Roy is Vancouver-based artist and writer whose work explores the intersection between language and visual art. She received a Bachelor of Arts in French Literature at Université Laval, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia.
She has shown nationally and internationally, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Gallery, the Or Gallery Berlin, Gallery Sumukha, Chennai & Bengaluru, India, and Chisenhale Gallery, London.
Roy was recipient of the VIVA award in 2010. In 2001 she published sign after the x (Artspeak/Arsenal Pulp Press), a book that revolves around the letter X and its multiple meanings. Her next book, titled Queuejumping, will come out in Winter 2020/2021. She is Associate Professor of Visual Art at the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.
