Artist Talk: Kyler Zeleny

Join photographer, writer, and educator Kyler Zeleny for an intimate talk about his latest book Bury Me in the Back Forty.

Bury Me in the Back Forty: An Alternative History of Prairie Living

Kyler Zeleny discusses his current book – Bury Me in the Back Forty, the third book of his prairie trilogy. Through photos, objects and folklore, Bury Me in the Back Forty explores a fading small town in Alberta.

Bury Me in the Back Forty presents an alternative history of prairie living. 

The book embraces both official and unofficial accounts of events in a community’s past; it is the long-term documentation of the author’s hometown, a rural community on the Canadian Prairies with deep Ukrainian roots, consisting of 915 people. 

Based on the idea that the idea of any place evolves over time, Zeleny has been using his own photographs, collected objects, community archives, and hidden histories to revise the community’s history book from the year 1980.

AUArts Stanford Perrott Lecture Theatre: 7 to 8 p.m.

This Artist Talk is part of Exposure: Alberta’s Photography Festival