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COLD RIGHTS IN A BURNING WORLDA talk by Susan Schuppli
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | FREE
Room 4390 | SFU School for the Contemporary Arts | 149 W Hastings St, Vancouver
The School for the Contemporary Arts is pleased to present a talk by artist-researcher Susan Schuppli, whose work explores the ways in which non-human witnesses such as materials and objects can enter public discourse and testify to historical events, especially those involving political violence, ethnic conflict and war crimes. Schuppli’s work assumes many different modes of communication, from legal analysis and public advocacy to theoretical reflection and creative exploration. Her current artistic projects expand these legal investigations to examine how environmental systems and transformations due to global warming are also generating new forms of evidence, creating, in effect, a planetary archive of material witnesses.
This talk will be followed by an opening reception for the exhibition Susan Schuppli: Atmospheric Feedback Loops (2017), curated by Denise Oleksijczuk for The Cabinet. Afterwards, join us for our MFA Graduating Exhibition in the Audain Gallery at 6 pm.
Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Forensic Architecture Fellow and Advisory Board Chair. Her artistic work has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally. Schuppli’s monograph Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence was published by MIT Press in 2020.
Presented by the School for the Contemporary Arts, with the support of the FCAT Dean’s Office, the IdleLab, and SSHRC/CRSH
ACCESSIBILITY: https://www.sfu.ca/production-event-services/visitor-info/accessibility.html#:~:text=MOBILITY%20ACCESS,London%20Drugs%20and%20Nesters%20Market.
For more information, contact Claudette Lauzon, [email protected]
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
SFU Contemporary Arts, Hiro Japan Express, 142 W Cordova St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1E4, Canada
