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Dr. Roewan Crowe
Office: 4G20
Phone: 204.786.9426
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Transdisciplinary artist Roewan Crowe is energized by acts of disruption and discovery. Her conceptually driven practice explores the multilayered relationships among words, images and experiences of trauma. She has a particular passion for feminist art, creating community and facilitating initiatives in cultural democracy. In 2007 she launched her solo show digShift. This multichannel installation of video poems delve into shifting layers of meaning at an abandoned gas station, in an attempt
to imagine some sort of reclamation – personal, historical, and environmental – for this compelling and toxic landscape. In May of 2008, in collaboration with Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, she curated the Art Building Community Project, which launched 10 new works and a weekend symposium. Currently she is working on an arts-based research project entitled, Feminist Imagination As A Space of Resistance: Artistic Practices Contesting Violence, which explores the ways in which art creates space for forbidden narratives. She is also working to complete an experimental novel entitled, Quivering Landscape and is the co-founder (with Heather Milne) of “Hot House,” a creative, activist duo committed to staging queer and feminist cultural and political interventions. As well as teaching in the department, she is Co-Director of the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Arts-Informed Research & Inquiry
Cultural Studies, Feminist Subcultures, Feminist Produced Culture
Art and Activism, Culture Jamming, Blogging, DIY Art
Initiatives in Cultural Democracy, Community Art, New Genre Public Art
Art and War, Art Contesting Militarization and Globalization
Representing Trauma and Violence
The Imagination, Feminist Theories of the Body, Autobiography
Feminist Research and Feminist & Queer Theory
EDUCATION
1990 B.A. (Honours),
1993 M.Ed., Ontario Institute of Studies in Education,
2000 Ed.D., Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Queer Grit: Jane West Rides Through the Violence of the
“Tanks R Us: Vehicles of Change: Interview with artist Sarah Beck.” Herizons, Winter 2006.
"Sweet Liberations: The Art of Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard," Poolside Media Arts. Pike B., editor, Video Media Arts Centre, 2005.
"Crafting Tales of Trauma: Will this Winged Monster Fly?" Provoked by Art: Theorizing Arts-informed Inquiry, L. Neilsen, J. G. Knowles, & A. L. Cole, editors, Backalong Books, 2004.
"Belting Out a Working Class Tune," Bent on Writing: Contemporary Queer Tales. E. Ruth, editor, Canadian Scholar’s Press, 2002.
"Angelic Artful Encounters." Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Special Issue: Performances in Arts-Based Inquiry, C. A. Mullen & P. Diamond, editors, Spring 2001.
"She Offers Fragments." The Art of Writing Inquiry, L. Neilsen, J. G. Knowles, & A. L Cole, editors, Backalong Books, 2001.
"It’s Time to Redress the Story of the Burning Red Dress," Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Art, Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, In Visible: The Most Graphic Fireweed Ever, 2000, Issue 70.
"An Old Story," Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly of Art, Writing, Politics, Art & Culture, Short Stuff, 2000, Issue 68.
EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS AND CURATORIAL WORK
Exhibitions (selected)
Best of the West Reclamation: Cleaning up the Mess of the West. Solo show
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Have I been Here Before? Group show, curatorial assistance by Diana Thorneycroft. Annex Gallery,
Bodies That Matter: Roewan Crowe and Michelle Gay. Curated by Corinna Ghaznavi. Redhead Gallery, 401
Screenings
Queer Grit: Animated Video. Toronto Harbourfront Centre: In the ‘Peg, July 2006; Herland Film and Video Festival, May 2006; Reel Pride, Winnipeg, Nov 2005; Three Dollar Bill Cinema, Seattle, Oct 2005; Outfest, Los Angeles, July 2005; Inside Out, Toronto, May 2005; Pink Screens: Alternative Gender Film Festival, Brussels, May 2005, New York Independent Film Festival, New York, April 2005.
Curatorial
“Community Art Symposium” Mentoring Artist’s for Women’s Art (MAWA), 2007
“Out From Under” I_Land Gallery,
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2005
2004
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2003
2002 Video Pool Media Arts Centre First Video Fund
2001
2001 Mentoring Artist for Women’s Art Foundational Advisory Program
