DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation with Dawn Roe
DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation with Dawn Roe
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, June 22nd, at 7 pm ET
Dawn Roe uses photographic methods as observational tools in response to situations where human and more-than-human lives entangle. Working with still photographs and digital video in both singular and combined forms, she connects intimately with Place while not shying away from the complicated and transformative emotions of loss, grief, and despair.
With her most recent project, DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation, Dawn moves from dry to watery terrain as a means of thinking through how individual bodies, along with fish and other organisms, find ways to live alongside one another in the midst of a globally shifting climate impacting our shared spaces and, subsequently, our relation(s).
Through this thoughtful conversation we will learn more about Dawn Roe’s site-responsive practice, and how being a responder shapes the way she engages and collaborates with particular spaces/places.
Dawn Roe (b. 1971, Sault Ste. Marie, MI) lives between Asheville, NC and Winter Park, FL where she is Professor of Studio Art at Rollins College. Her projects examine the role of photographic practice in shaping personal and social understandings of our environment through site-responsive engagement.
Roe's photographs and videos are exhibited and screened regularly throughout the U.S. and internationally at venues including The Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL; ISU University Galleries, Normal, IL; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR; Chiang Mai Photo Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Screen Space Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; The Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, WA, Australia; and the Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH; among others. A two-year public art commission from the Broward County Division of Cultural Affairs resulted in the production of a suite of artworks for the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida in 2015.
