Reading by Meredith Quatermain
Oct 3, 2015
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As part of Urgent Imagination: Art and Urban Development, Part 2, Meredith Quatermain presented her poem “How to Remember” from her collection of short stories I, Bartleby (2015). The reading took place outdoors beneath the giant earthworm installed on Western Front's façade as part of the installation Slow Dirt (2015) by Other Sights for Artists' Projects.Urgent Imagination: Art and Urban Development was a two-part project that proposed creative alternatives to developer-driven architecture and urban planning in Vancouver. The project generated events, artworks, conferences, and an online platform for critical inquiry into issues concerning urban development, spatial justice, and critical theory.
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