Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: Tarah Hogue

Tarah Hogue, photo courtesy of the artist.

Join us for an afternoon Visual Arts lecture with writer and curator Tarah Hogue, based in Treaty 6 and 7 territories and the Métis homeland. 

What happens when the archive expands to encompass oral histories, embodied practices, land, and other forms through which knowledge persists? What does the category gain through that expansion, and what might the things it describes lose in translation? Drawing from her curatorial work with Indigenous artists, this talk considers encounters with archival records and museum collections alongside practices of knowledge transmission, continuity, and resurgence that may exceed the archival altogether.  

Presented in the context of the On Other Archives Visual Arts residency, this Open Lecture asks how artists and curators might work across different systems of knowledge without requiring one to become fully legible through the terms of another. Thinking through the possibilities and limits of “archiving otherwise,” Hogue will  consider the tensions between interpretation and translation, curiosity and consumption, access and refusal—and how we might create generous encounters with knowledge without presuming that everything must become available to us. 

This event is part of the Visual Arts Open Lecture Series, which presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics. Tarah Hogue is in Banff as faculty of the Visual Arts residency On Other Archives, which invites artists to think critically about the archive as a method or "technology" for re-storying social and cultural narratives.

Visual Arts is supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.