Thursday April 16, 12–4pm
Arya and Hamid Eshghi Forum
Put that exam study stress on hold, grab some pals and try your hand at our favourite card-based games alongside Maggie Groat's S LOWER F: ACTIVITY BOOK! Come early to grab a slice of pizza. All ages are welcome
Groat's interest in games springs from their world-building possibilities–as a strategic coping strategy for life in difficult times but also, and perhaps more powerfully, as a philosophical exploration of other realities.
Maggie Groat is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada, the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Chonnonton, and Anishnaabeg. Working exclusively with found imagery and salvaged and sustainable materials, her work explores the utility of images and the transformative, ritual potential of reuse while living in times of climate emergency. Her recent and ongoing multi-chapter project S LOWER F, is a sprawling examination of attempts at slowness as a form of refusal and the transformative potentials of small, quiet acts.