Larissa Lai – Archive and Utopia: Art and Literary Criticism for a Better World

Archive and Utopia: Art and Literary Criticism for a Better World

Friday, July 5, 2024

2 – 3:30 PM PT

Online (Zoom)

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RSVP HERE.

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Join us on Friday, July 5 for Larissa Lai’s virtual talk, Archive and Utopia: Art and Literary Criticism for a Better World. Part of Centre A’s 2024 Art Writing Mentorship, this event is open and free for all. 

In this talk, Larissa will discuss her own critical practice, with a focus on research and her relationship to the archive, but also the reasons for why she writes criticism–what she thinks it might produce for a better Asian Canadian future. What are some of the better and worse ways of approaching an artwork? How can a critic enter into productive conversation with someone else’s practice and production? How can criticism draw from existing cultural memory and what contributions can it make towards the meaningful evolution of Asian Canadian arts communities?

The 2024 Art Writing Mentorship is generously supported by the Sector Innovation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, Regional Cultural Project Grant from Metro Vancouver and SFU’s  David Lam Center.

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The 2024 Art Writing Mentorship is generously supported by the Sector Innovation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, Regional Cultural Project Grant from Metro Vancouver and SFU’s  David Lam Center.