The Reynolds Atelier hosts one artist, writer, or creative practitioner to lead a hands-on workshop with a select group of students. These events are geared towards engaging students in the Department of English in various aspects of making and doing. They are often, but not always, accompanied by related programming that serves the larger community within and beyond the department.?Previous recipients of this fellowship have included video sound performance artist , experimental filmmaker , and nonfiction filmmaker .
The leader of the 2023-2024 Reynolds Atelier is artist/activist/archivist kimura byol lemoine?(??? ? ?? – 木村 ビヨル レムワンー) a?multimedia feminist artist who works on identities (diaspora, ethnicity, colorism, post-colonialism, immigration, gender),?and expresses it with?,?,?,?,??and?. kimura*lemoine’s work has been?,?, published and supported nationally and internationally. As, ze has developed projects that give voice and visibility to minorities
kimura*lemoine, as a Korean-born adoptee, is co-founder of?), EKL-Korea Branch (1994, S/Korea), K.O.A (Korean Overseas Adoptee, 1996, Korea),??(1996-1996, S/Korea),??(1998, S/Korea)??(1998, S/Korea),??(2001-2008, S/Korea-Canada),??(2004-2007, worldwide), N.O.K.I.A.A. (Network of Korean International Adoptee Artists, 2010),??(Asians/Autochtones/Afro-descendants Queer Adoptees, 2015), and zer latest contributions to the inter-racial adoptee community is ???to document the history of adoptee’s culture through media and arts, K.A.R.M.A (2018, Korea), and?(2021).
As an artist, kimura*lemoine has received grants from ???(CAM, NFB, ACIC), and the??from?, a 2018?CALQ Grant for zer writing essay project ’88 etc. Recently, kimura*lemoine screened?Adoption 30 years after?(ACIC-ONF/NFB), exhibited at??(Jan.-Mar., 2020, Montreal) and coordinated ‘‘ project (2020), an??&??at PHI Foundation (Summer 2021), Queering Qualligraphy (2022) and POJA (2023) with the support of?.?
Events
Workshop:?"If I was YOU:??Selfying the other"
Monday March 11, 18:00-20:00
Friday, March 15, 10:00-17:00 (workshop will run all day but students must be there between 15:00-17:00)
These days, we often turn the cellphone camera on ourselves, and we consume the images others portray of themselves. As a non-conventional artist with intersectional identities, I propose a workshop to challenge these habits of self-portraiture and our assumptions about representing ourselves and others. This workshop will attempt to explore these questions through working in pairs to create portraits of other people, across different mediums (Zines, video, writing, painting, collage, digital, sound, collaboration/curating) according to the practices of the participants involved. During the 2 day workshop, you will make a portrait of your collaborator (abstract, surrealist, glitchy, etc…) within the enabling constraints of our approach. We will explore artmaking, collaboration, listening, intersectionality, respect, normativity, deconstruction etc. Through the?art making process, we will learn about negotiation, power dynamics, management of ego, communication and archiving.
Open to students working with different practices.?Please email ara.osterweil [at] mcgill.ca to sign up to participate. You can visit the artist’s website .