DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation Part II with Dawn Roe
DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation, Part II with Dawn Roe
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, May 31st, at 7 pm EDT
Dawn Roe uses photographic methods as observational tools in response to situations where human and more-than-human lives entangle. Working with still photographs, scans, digital video, and UV-sensitive direct contact printing methods, Dawn connects intimately with Place while not shying away from the complicated and transformative emotions of loss, grief, and despair.
With her most recent project, assembled as a series of encounters within and around watery terrain, DESCENT ≈ An Atlas of Relation, looks to the fish – who have occupied our planet for millions of years in a constant struggle for survival – as a means of thinking through how human and more-than-human beings find ways to live alongside one another within the midst of a globally shifting climate.
Dawn has been gracious enough to share her multi-year unfolding creative process with us and will be updating us on the progress of her remarkable project. To see Part I of Dawn’s talk, click here.
Through this thoughtful conversation Dawn will be taking us further along the path of her site-responsive practice while sharing how her varied understandings of descent – as passage, downward movement, decline, sinking, legacy, lineage, origination – helps us visualize our human-made worlds as a continuum, suggesting both the promise and peril of ecological longevity.
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.
