Excited to join the folks in Art Education at Concordia University this year! As an Assistant Professor, I will be working with pre-service teachers, community art educators, graduate students and colleagues to think about art and its education here in Montreal.
Concordia
No Outsides: Metal in an Era of Contagion
June 6–9 2023, Concordia University, Montreal /Tiohtià:ke, Canada
Six decades from its counter-cultural inception, what remains of metal’s relation to the outside forces of extremity, abolition and transformation? The 2023 ISMMS conference, which will be hosted by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, students and artists, will explore this question through a series of talks, artistic interventions, panels and workshops. Oriented toward the question of metal study’s relationship to the outside in an era of contagion, this conference will explore questions related to themes of urgency and emergency, extremity and enclosure, contagion and containment, plurality and polarization, queerness and ecological outsides, and futurity and fatality.
Weird Pedagogy for the "End Times"
Dr. Jessie Beier joins that latest installment of the CSLP Speaker Series on Wednesday, March 8, at 4pm in the Research-Creation space of the CSLP, for a performance-lecture that will examine the way in which end of the world thinking has come to define and delimit pedagogical approaches to grappling with the material and conceptual ends that might otherwise provoke important questions about education and its futures.
Please be sure to register your attendance as soon as possible through EventBrite.ca.
Orphan Film Symposium - Live Score (w/ Vivek Venkatesh) for Rafael de Luna Freire's "Films by Esdras Baptista"
Rafael de Luna Freire (Fluminense Federal U) presentation at Orphans Symposium 2022: Counter-Archives — Cinematographer Esdras Baptista’s Film Collection (1940s-80s): Rediscovering a Brazilian Communist Filmmaker with music performed live by Vivek Venkatesh & Jessie Beier.
Albertan high school students are artists-in-residence at Concordia’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance
Postdocorate researcher Jessie Beier connects Landscape of Hope with the Bennett, Argyll, and Metro learning centres in Edmonton
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Two Nights of Spellbound Performances: Halka at St-Jax Church
On October 14th and 15th, over a hundred Montrealers gathered at St-Jax Church for Halka, a musical performance project born from several years of artistic collaboration between Vivek Venkatesh, David Hall, Owen Chapman, and Norwegian progressive metal legend Enslaved’s co-founder Ivar Bjørnson.
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HALKA Performance @ St. Jax Oct. 14/15
Halka is a musical project born from several years of artistic collaboration between Vivek Venkatesh, David Hall, Owen Chapman, and Norwegian progressive metal legend Enslaved’s co-founder Ivar Bjørnson. They will be joined by Jessie Beier, Annabelle Brault, Danji Buck-Moore, José-Luis Cortés Santander, Martin Lalonde, and Veronica Florence Mockler for two different sound and multimedia performances at the St Jax church on 14-15 October 2022.
Special guests of the show include Leila Abdul-Rauf and Le Monastère Cabaret de Cirque.
Halka means gentle and subtle in Urdu. Through Halka, we explore the ethos of slow and purposeful creation. What does it mean to be gentle in the face of harshness? How lightly do we need to be to float and yet feel anchored?
Landscape of Hate Residency @ 4th Space
2022, August 8-19// Landscape of Hate Artist Residency @ 4th Space, Concordia University, Montreal.
Landscape of Hate performances include a combination of original compositions of electronic music, audio samples, social media feeds, soundscapes and video projections. The lyrical materials are derived from data collected from the Internet, research interviews and other public sources.
This event features artists Jessie Beier, Annabelle Brault, Owen Chapman, Nik Forrest, Veronica Mockler, José-Luis Cortés Santander, and Vivek Venkatesh, with production assistance from Marek Detière-Venkatesh, Nathan-Gabriel Guerrette, Catlin W. Kuzyk, and Mairin Miller.
