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Anique Vered

Concordia University
Participates in 2 items
Anique is an Australian artist-researcher, curator and cultural consultant. Currently based in Montréal, she has over ten years experience in the strategic development of collaborative, interdisciplinary communities of practice. Her work is now focussed on research-creation for public projects, experimental organizational approaches, as well as curating collectivity.
 
Anique's research-creation practice is based at SenseLab and the Centre for Curating and Public Scholarship at Concordia University; with investigations into affect theory, pedagogy, curation and political economy.  Her creative collaborations traverse social intervention, diagramming and participatory data mapping. Anique's most recent publication, 'The (un)choreography of Dance Politics'​ with Joel E. Mason, was published in the latest Inflexions journal issue: Radical Pedagogies.
 
Anique's consulting work focuses on creative community engagement strategies across levels of society. At present, she is co-curating and co-producing The School of Making Thinking's durational conference, alongside strategic development for The Street Speaks- a transmedia citizen engagement project.
 
Anique holds a Masters of Studies from Australian National University spanning cultural landscapes, participatory development and museology. She is also a Fellow from the Centre for Sustainability Leadership. Example projects include: co-curating and co-producing Dance Politics at the Design Studio for Social Intervention (2014); researching and developing the foundations of an inter-governmental partnership for culturally diverse community festivals (2013-14); creative producing an award-winning museum game for Sydney's Chinese Garden of Friendship; co-curating and co-producing the award-winning public art installation, educational and arts venue The Rocks Windmill (2013); and launching precinct revitalisation program The Rocks Pop-Up (2011-12).

Sessions in which Anique Vered participates

Monday 6 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Research-Creation Installation or PerformanceHeritage in ConflictsOral History

Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omission, and competitions of victimhood. This problem also extends to scholarship on genocide and memory. “Moving memory” is a collaborative multi-sited research exhibition about the Armenian and Roma genocides that proposes creative solutions to these museological and scholarly conflicts around commemoration. Our multi-sited event includes two pr...

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:00 - 14:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Research-Creation Installation or PerformanceHeritage as an Agent of Change (Epistemologies, Ontologies, Teaching)Oral History
Heritage as an agent of changeEpistemologiesOntologiesTeaching

An experiment in moving memory, this live event bridges public and academic space to re-imagine knowledge exchange, creation and impact. Around the globe the planning of large-scale memorial-museum projects concerned with violent histories are frequently marred by conflict, omission, and competitions of victimhood. This problem also extends to scholarship on genocide and memory. “Moving Memory: difficult histories in dialogue” is a collaborative multi-sited research exhibiti...

Sessions in which Anique Vered attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
17:00 - 19:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes
Festive Event

Welcome addresses and cocktail, followed by the Concordia Signature Event "The Garden of the Grey Nuns". As the opening ceremony and cocktail take place in the former Grey Nuns' Motherhouse, recycled into campus residence and reading rooms by Concordia University,  delegates will also have the possibility to discover the video Three Grey Nuns (3 minutes, by Ron Rudin and Phil Lichti. Three Grey Nuns recount their memories of communal life in the Grey Nun’s Motherhouse.  Built...

19:30 - 21:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Research-Creation Installation or PerformancePublic event

Working with archival documents and the current-day morphology of the Grey Nuns' site, Dr Cynthia Hammond, Dr Shauna Janssen, in collaboration with Dr Jill Didur, will curate a series of installations and performances that speak directly to the rich heritage of a specific urban landscape: the gardens of the Grey Nuns' Motherhouse, now part of the Concordia University downtown campus. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the lost working gardens of the Grey Nuns. As with other such...