Event

29 Jul 2025

12 noon - 1 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. 

Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre

Art and Literature in Nature

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A guided art-and-writing walk with KOAC artist-in-residence Bogdan Cheța

Join artist Bogdan Cheța (BFA '09, Drawing and MFA '19, Craft Media) in a special art-and-writing-walk at the KOAC sculpture park where he plans to guide attendees through an art-performance experiment inspired by the late author Derek Jarman’s search for a queer sculpture garden, that drifts, virtually, and across time, like an avatar for another possible future.

By reading and walking in tandem alongside Derek Jarman's posthumously published journal entries about a re-envisioned future, Bogdan Cheța invites an encounter with “hearing” voices from history that then opens pathways into possible futurities, inclusive and respectful of a past where everyone can see themselves reflected in ways that bring dignity to each other’s lived experience and sense of collective belonging.