September 22-23, 2018
PPG Coatings and Resings Plant site, Avonhead Rd., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
Presented as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea.
Watershed Memory and Drainpipe Story
A Tour
Sheila Batacharya
September 22-23, 2018
PPG Coatings and Resings Plant site, Avonhead Rd., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
Considering memories and situated knowledge connected to this site, Sheila Batacharya will lead a tour of the PPG Coatings and Resins Plant ruins. Her storytelling will map the literal and metaphoric drains and drainage in the operations of this industry, and the history of this place.
Presented as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea a site-specific exhibition, public program series, and publication platform designed to expand perspectives on climate change through artistic practices, cultural inquiry, and political mobilization.
Sheila Batacharya teaches and writes. She grew up on Royal Windsor Drive, two kilometres from the Pittsburgh Plate Glass of Canada factory in Clarkson where her father worked as a chemical engineer from the late 1960s until he retired in the 1990s. Batacharya’s work about embodiment is shaped by paying attention to race and, colonization, and by examining perception as inextricably socially constructed, but more than just discursive.
The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea is presented by the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga in partnership with the City of Mississauga.
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded in part through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
