The UN/making Network

Upcoming Events

Walking for Tomorrow: Beach Clean-Up at Innisfil Beach Park (Innisfil)

6 July @ 676 Innisfil Beach Rd, Innisfil Beach, ON L9S 4H6

About

Initially funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Queen's University's Graduate Research Council, the UN/making Network is research-creation PhD project by interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator Dr. Jill Price. Inspired by creative thinkers and makers who undertake temporary, unexpected, necessary or durational acts of un/making to acknowledge the liveliness and agency of human and more-than-human beings othered or rendered absent via anthropocentric perspectives and approaches to Land., the UN/making Network is a Cultural Studies PhD research-creation project createdAlways at risk of encouraging the creation and consumption of more “stuff" or "unhappy objects", practitioners and events promoted through this site often work at the intersections of art, ecology, post-colonial studies, geography, aesthetics, race theory, gender studies and activism to disrupt colonial, capitalist, patriarchal and extractive systems that reify Euro-centric values and aesthetics or mass, global industrialist processes of extraction, production, dissemination, consumption and discard.Jill Price of the UN/making Network respectfully acknowledges that they sit on Treaty 16, Treaty 18 and Williams Treaties of 1923 territories, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe peoples, including the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Pottawatomi nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy.