ASAP/14: Arts of Fugitivity will take place October 4 - October 7, 2023 at UW Seattle and Bothell, as well as at Seattle University. All keynote events are open to UW faculty, students, and staff who register through this form. Once registered, you are encouraged to show up at the keynote event 15m prior to start time as seating is first come, first served. To learn more about the ASAP14 conference, visit linktr.ee….

About the Keynote Speakers:

Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw (Stó:lō / Skwah) artist, curator and writer. From 2015-2022 he held the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. In Fall 2022 he began a new appointment as Associate Professor in the School of Music at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Robinson’s work spans the areas of Indigenous sound studies and public art, and takes various forms from event scores and autotheory, to inter-arts creation and discursive practice. His book, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (University Minnesota Press, 2020), examines Indigenous and settler colonial listening practices. dylanrobinson.ca/

Tania Willard is a mixed Secwépemc and settler artist whose research intersects with land-based art practices. Her practice activates connection to land, culture, and family, centering art as an Indigenous resurgent act, though collaborative projects such as BUSH Gallery and support of language revitalization in Secwépemc communities. Her artistic and curatorial work includes Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2012-2014) and Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe (ongoing). Willard’s work is included in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Forge Project, Kamloops Art Gallery, and the Anchorage Museum, among others. In 2016, she received the Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art. In 2020, the Shadbolt Foundation awarded her their VIVA Award for outstanding achievement and commitment in her art practice, and in 2022 she was named a Forge Project Fellow for her land-based, community-engaged artistic practice. www.taniawillard.ca

In conversation with Olivia Michiko Gagnon (Theatre & Film, University of British Columbia), who specializes in performance studies, with research and teaching interests in minoritarian performance, cultural production, and multimedia aesthetic practice.