May 1, 4:30 PM: Vivek Shraya: Trisha

Vivek Shraya discusses her photo series in which she occupies spaces and wears outfits to recreate photographs of her mother from the 1970s when she was a single woman recently immigrated to Canada. The collection’s juxtaposition of new and source images creates a dialogue across time, genealogy and gender. In conversation with Nicole Morse (Communication and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University). Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, and film. Her best-selling new book, I’m Afraid of Men, was her­ald­ed by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel,” and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part‑Time Woman, was included in CBC’s list of Best Canadian Albums of 2017. She is one half of the music duo Too Attached and the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books. A Polaris Music Prize nominee and five-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a 2016 Pride Toronto Grand Marshal, was featured on The Globe and Mail’s Best Dressed list, and has received honours from The Writers’ Trust of Canada and The Publishing Triangle. She is currently a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. vivekshraya.com is the digital archive for a living trans artist of colour, featuring her music, writing, visual art and film from 2002 to present.

Date: May 1, 2019
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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