Workshop

Gabrielle Paré: Materiality and narrative

Film still from video by Gabrielle Paré:

you really are quite something

These two speakers make up two halves of a biracial mestiza. One performs the White half, the other performs the Brown half. They challenge each other’s positionality. They swap positions and play each other's roles. They are dressed in a combination of contemporary and traditional clothes. In the attempt of getting close to the other, there is a sense that a boundary can be crossed, a claim may be made where there is no entitlement. The conversation goes from warm to hostile, nurturing to suspicious, as each teases the other through song (remembered and forgotten), language, dress, and the symbolic offering of a mango.

Gabrielle Paré will speak of this recent video-installation and performance, produced while on residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, earlier this year. The artist talk take place at the textile print workshop at KHiO. The workshop is part of a Textile Lab titled: Materiality and narrative.

Gabrielle Paré (born 1989 in Amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton, Canada) is currently living and working in Oslo. Paré received her BFA from the University of Alberta (2011), and MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2017). She has participated in a number of residencies, including the “Distributed Identities” residency at the Banff Centre of Art and Creativity in Canada, the “Publishing as a site of collectivization” residency with PRAKSIS Oslo, and will be an artist in residence at Fonderie Darling in Montreal in the coming year. Paré has exhibited at this year’s Spring Eexhibition at Fotogalleriet in Oslo. In 2019 she was a recipient of a Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond
grant, a Travel grant from the Office of Contemporary Art Norway, and she has received support from Norwegian Visual Artist Project Fund.