detail, …but there’s all this red tape by various artists.
Battlegrounds: bodies + land, justice + law is curated by Michelle Soullière + features works by cj fleury (Wakefield, PQ), Justseeds Artist Cooperative (USA/Canada/Mexico), Norman Grondin (Windsor, ON), Renée Trépanier (Windsor, ON), Benjamin McInnis (Windsor, ON) + Maggie McGuire (Detroit, MI)
The exhibition explores artists’ community + socially engaged, collaborative + interdisciplinary approaches in exploring legal takes on women’s bodies and the earth – two main areas where the Canadian judicial system has failed to serve justice and protect time + time again.
Inspired by recent legal battles with violent takings of bodies + land at the forefront:
Ghomeshi’s sexual assault trial and consecutive peace bond
Missing and murdered indigenous women awaiting justice in Canada
The battle to bring victims + survivors of sexual assault to justice in Detroit though the testing rape kits backlogged by the Detroit Police Department+
The local battle of Nancy Panchesan representing Friends of Save Ojibway in protecting Ojibway Prairie Complex
Many ongoing battles with First Nations populations and oil companies across Canada
The exhibition features multimedia + installation works from Templates for Activism – a series of collaborations between cj fleury and members of the feminist law community, various 2D prints from Justseeds Artist Cooperative, a collaborative installation by Save Ojibway activists and Windsor + Detroit based artists, and a feminist/activist/legal reading library.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMMING:
The Bloomfield House Poetry Night
featuring Enola Cola reading Buyer Beware / Apocalypse Sells
Thursday, July 14, 7pm @ ArtciteFree + Open to the public
Save Ojibway screen printing workshopfacilitated by Maggie McGuireSunday, July 179am-1pm, as part of Open Streets WindsorFree + Open to the public
