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The Special Sunday Supper is a summertime potluck dinner in a lovely Strathcona backyard, followed by an engaging artist talk by an invited local artist. This community art event is outdoors, inclusive, family-friendly, and FREE, thanks to the generous support of the City of Vancouver and the Neighbourhood Small Grants.

This edition will be taking place on Sunday, September 18, and will feature the inter-disciplinary artist and UBC Professor Marina Roy..

In her own words:

"In the pile-up of language and spectacle which constitutes our amnesiac present, one role for art is to create a clearing within our petrified landscape, and, through a reordering all this new and obsolete stuff, through bricolage and play, construct new meanings, new conceptions of reality, shot through with historical memory, utopian aspirations, and pleasure. Cross-disciplinary in scope, my artwork investigates the intersection between materials, history, language, and ideology. It is my hope that the work addresses the need for a post-humanist perspective, counter to the dictates of humanistic hubris and its entrapment within binary power dynamics. Art can act as a bridge between culture and nature, ethics and drive.

The foundations of my research are in psychoanalysis, biopolitics, human-animal distinction, feminism, allegory, art history, and linguistics. In 2001 I published sign after the x (Artspeak/Arsenal Pulp), an encyclopedic book which revolves around the letter X and its multiple meanings in Western culture. I am currently researching and writing a new book about human-animal distinction, biopolitics, and the letter Q, titled Queuejumping."

Please RSVP as noted on poster for location and what to bring…!

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