Saturday, May 30th, 10:30 AM (doors open at 10:00 AM) in the Harrison McCain Pavilion, Artists Lucas Morneau (they/he) and Chad Tobin (he/him) discuss their work featured in Document/ary: New Photographs from Atlantic Canada with exhibition curator Chris Donovan (he/him). Both Morneau's and Tobin's work centers around wrestling culture in an Atlantic Canadian context with varied methodologies that exemplify the ethos of the exhibition. Document/ary presents photography in an art context as functioning on a spectrum between documentary practice and documentation of multidisciplinary art practice. Tobin's long-term documentary work explores the region's amateur wrestling scene with an emphasis on wrestlers from Cape Breton, and Morneau's work examines wrestling as a form of gender performance, using textiles, self-portraiture, and other modes of creation to contemplate the ways in which masculine gender performance overlaps with drag culture.
