• • • • • • • Rest-Oration • • • • • • •
A slow conversation between Victoria Stanton and Po B. K. Lomami looking at the pedagogical—and revolutionary—role of rest, pause, refusal, slowness, care, and “doing nothing” within contemporary artists’ time-based works and the parallel social justice implications of integrating slow philosophies in the post-secondary studio art classroom.
Audience members will be part of research-in-action, while also invited to enjoy the discussion and participate in a Q&A.
This event is part of Stanton’s research for her PhD in Art Education at Concordia University and will be recorded for research purposes.
JUNE 13, 2025
Time: 5 to 7pm
Location: Produit Rien, 6909 rue Marconi, Montreal (Métro Jean-Talon)
Admission: Free
The event will be taking place in English. The venue is on the ground floor with three steps and can be made accessible with an added ramp for any guests requiring this.
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Bio of Presenting Guest:
Po B. K. Lomami is an indisciplinary interventionist, artist, and educator. They are a Congodescendant (DRC) from Belgium based in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montreal since 2017. Their art questions individuals, institutions, and themselves through affection, force, the absurd, and the quotidian. Exploring super-performance and failure, their projects revolve around the displacement of work, the becoming of their subjectivity, and the design of possible collective futures with crip, queer and Afrofeminist perspectives. Their work has been presented in Belgium, Sweden, New York and Canada, and their texts have been featured in French, Quebec and African books and journals.
For more info please contact: moment.of.nothing@gmail.com
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