University of Waterloo Art Gallery
263 Phillip Street N2L 3W8 Waterloo, ON, Canada

Team portrait of This Could Be The Place 2018 THIS COULD BE THE PLACE was produced with the generous support of the Region of Waterloo ARTS FUND. This Could Be The Place is a co-presentation of the University of Waterloo Art Gallery and UW Fine Arts, in cooperation with CAFKA.18: Recognize Everyone.

June 8, 2018 Lala Rascic - The Damned Damn is a storytelling performance set in 2027. Rooted in research of actual localities and events, this fantastical love story uses the iconography of disaster, to open up issues of a transitional reality, the relationship between capitalism and corruption, between cause and effect, emancipation and justice, and escapism into fiction. The damn as border is at once metaphor and Bosnian epic poetry. Lala Rascic is a media and performance artist. She divides her time between Sarajevo, Zagreb, and New Orleans. Bojana Videkanic This Could be the Place

June 7, 2018 Johanna Householder We live in uncertain times, so uncertain we don’t know what to call them: the Holocence, the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or the Chthulucene? The conversation around the current epoch from a quasi-scientific perspective can assist humans in the critically needed repositioning of ourselves as only one of many animalia on the planet. In order to rethink our selves in relation to the land and its discontents, I propose listening for relationships while conceiving alternative futures and presents. Johanna Householder works in video, performance art, and audio. Her interest in how ideas move through bodies and shape our perception of bodies, both human and animal, leads her often collaborative practice. Bojana Videkanic This Could be the Place

June 6, 2018 Lisa Myers A sound interpretation using the two blueprint profiles of the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline. One blueprint from 1800s and the other an altered version, marking places without train stations and often left off maps. This performance with bass guitar and guitar will accompany an acknowledgement of the maps, and the very place of this artwork. Lisa Myers is an independent curator and artist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. She is a member of Beausoleil First Nation and is based in Port Severn and Toronto. Bojana Videkanic This Could be the Place @ Waterloo, Ontario

June 5, 2018 Golboo Amani - Public Reading is a performance work that engages with audiences in an intimate shared experience. The artist travels through public space with a small library of collected books. Participants pick a book from the literary for the artist to read out loud to them. Golboo Amani is a multi-disciplinary artist best known for her performance and social practice works. She is based in Toronto.... Bojana Videkanic This Could be the Place @ Waterloo, Ontario See more

June 4, 2018 Abedar Kamgari - Food has always been integral to my relationship with cultural identity. Diet, of course, can change based on a variety of factors, ranging from income and free time to climate, health and availability. Turmeric is a staple spice in my traditional cuisine, but one that I gradually stopped using after coming to Canada for fear of its characteristic smell marking my body. In this experimental performance, I play with turmeric as a tool for claiming space for brown bodies in public space and within institutions. Abedar Kamgari is an artist, independent curator, and arts worker based in Hamilton and Toronto. Bojana Videkanic This Could be the Place @ Waterloo, Ontario