Museum of Contemporary Arts – Walking Tour with Prof. Lisa Myers
You’re Invited to Join Us for a Special Event!
City Institute Summer Walking Tour: Aki’s Echo with Prof. Lisa Myers
Date: August 12th, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: We will meet near the Museum of Contemporary Arts, [158 Sterling Rd #100, Toronto, ON M6R 2B7]
PLEASE NOTE: Once you have RSVP’ed you will receive further instructions on exactly where to meet.
Dear City Institute Friends and Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to join the City Institute and Professor Lisa Myers for an enriching walking tour titled “Aki’s Echo”
As part of the multi-faceted artwork Overture to Sterling Road, Aki’s Echo is an audio and augmented reality walk that invites the listener to assume another self in a partly fictionalized narrative. The journey takes the listener on a path that traces both histories and possible futures, at once conjuring messages from three different portals to other realms, grounded in the realities of dislocation, relocation, and displacement. Engaging with the economies of real estate, gentrification, and carbon offsetting, the walk opens possibilities of relations to land in the immediate location and the wider GTA region. In this imaginative realm a blueberry becomes a symbolic agent inspired by real concerns, pointing to land as more than just a physical space or private property but rather a source of language, sustenance, and relationships.
About Prof. Lisa Myers
Image Credit: euc.yorku.ca/faculty/lisa-myers/
Lisa Myers is a curator and artist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Her research focuses on contemporary Indigenous art and considers the varied values and functions of elements such as medicine plants and language, sound, and knowledge. Through many media and materials, and by incorporating socially engaged art approaches, her practice examines place, underrepresented histories and futures, and collective forms of knowledge exchange. An associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Myers holds a research chair in Indigenous art and curatorial practice. Part of her practice as a curator includes artist advocacy; she is co-chair of CARFAC Ontario and is passionate about navigating institutional barriers and limitations. Myers is a member of Beausoleil First Nation and is based in both Toronto and Port Severn, Ontario.
