Workshop with Rebecca La Marre
- Rebecca La Marre
Join us for an art writing and book-making workshop by Saskatoon/Treaty 6 artist and writer Rebecca La Marre at the Vancouver Art Book Fair.
Echoing cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse), a game played by Surrealist and Dada artists in the early 1900’s, La Marre invites participants to use experimental writing tools and surfaces to produce collaborative book-works in the form of a scroll, while discussing questions of authorship, embodiment, and the entanglement of language and visual art.
The discussion will be led in English, but all languages are welcome and encouraged in the written parts of the workshop. A total of 18 workshop spaces are available.
La Marre’s workshop is presented alongside Craft Parlour, a solo exhibition in Western Front’s Library, featuring a newly released publication of the same name.
About the Artist
Rebecca La Marre is a queer artist based in Saskatoon, Canada, or Treaty 6, the traditional home of the Blackfoot, Cree and Métis people. Her writing, making, and performance practice uses clay, text, and the human voice to give form to questions about what it means to be a person in the world. Her activity is driven by what she reads and a need to test how ideological structures, trauma, language, and ritual can shape bodies. The first person to teach her about clay was her grandmother Ellen La Marre, who displayed her work in domestic settings and craft markets.
Acknowledgements
Presented in partnership with Vancouver Art Book Fair.
Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.