Date & time
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
11:45 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.
11:45 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.
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Sustainable material research
A report on interdisciplinary initiatives
Speaker(s)
Kelly Jazvac
Cost
This event is free and open to the public
Organization
Loy. Coll. Diversity & Sustainability & Sustainability Res. Cntr / Dept. Design & Computation Arts
Contact
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
Accessible location
Yes
Photo courtesy of Kelly Jazvac
Following a year of sabbatical research on sustainable material innovations and building methods, Jazvac will present on international initiatives taking place in Mexico, France and the U.S. As an artist, her research is centered on finding sustainable alternatives for Studio Art pedagogy and other artistic applications.
Kelly Jazvac
About the speaker
Kelly Jazvac (b. Hamilton, ON) works with plastic waste to probe the permanence of disposability. She often re-works found images from advertisements printed on plastic into new site-specific installations. She is also part of a SSHRC-funded plastic pollution research team called The Synthetic Collective, which includes scientists, artists and writers. She has upcoming exhibitions at MoMA (New York); Fierman Gallery (New York); The Musée D’Art Contemporain (Montréal), and Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Her recent exhibitions include the Eli and Edyth Broad Museum (East Lansing); Ujazdowski Castle CCA (Warsaw); and Fierman Gallery (New York). Her work has been written about in National Geographic, e-flux Journal, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, The New Yorker, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, C Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail. Her collaborative art/science research has been published in scientific journals including Nature Reviews, GSA Today, and Science of the Total Environment. She is based in Montreal, where she is an Associate Professor of Sculpture in the Department of Studio Arts.
This event is brought to you by the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, and the Department of Design and Computation Arts in collaboration with 4TH SPACE, with the support of the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies; the Office of Sustainability; the School of Community and Public Affairs and First Peoples Studies; the Science College; and the Departments of Communication Studies; Geography, Planning and Environment; and Political Science at Concordia University.
This event will contribute to the Sustainability in Research section of Concordia's Sustainability Action Plan by increasing the visibility of sustainability research at Concordia.
This event is part of:
In.site2 and Sustainability across disciplines