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Visiting Artist Lecture: Erika DeFreitas
Oct 31, 2023 01:00 PM
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02:00 PM
AA 303
Registration Deadline: Oct 31, 2023 12:00 PM
Image: Erika DeFreitas, video still, on a more monumental scale, 2019, single channel video, no sound, 4:55 minutes.
Placemaking: Building Communities through Art
Artist Lecture with Erika DeFreitas
Community is an important part of being an artist and conversely, artists build community, define place, and keep culture alive with their work. Thinking through the elements of placemaking-citizen well-being, reliable public transit, and the overall vitality of a community, 2023-2024 invites 9 artists to speak about the impact of community on their practice, the pivotal role placemaking serves in their works, and the ways in which artists actively build, maintain, and champion their communities.
**Registration closes at 12pm the day of - please arrive in person if you'd like to attend past the registration deadline.**
Erika DeFreitas's body of work includes performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, drawing and writing. Placing emphasis on gesture, process, the body, documentation and paranormal phenomena, DeFreitas mines concepts of loss, post-memory, legacy and objecthood. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg; Gallery TPW, Toronto; Project Row Houses and the Museum of African American Culture, Houston; Fort Worth Contemporary Arts; and Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita. DeFreitas holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. Erika is based in Scarborough, ON.