Misleading Questions Speaker Series

Over the course of the exhibition, Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, MOCCA invites viewers to consider the “Baroque” in everyday life. This series of FREE public talks features thinkers across diverse fields who will reflect upon and explore contemporary ideas of aesthetics and judgment in varying and surprising ways.

Speakers:

Michael Atkinson, Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, U of T
The Second Skin: Pleasures of the Tattooed Flesh
Michael Atkinson (Toronto, ON), Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, U of T and author of Tattooed: The Sociogenesis of a Body Art, will address contemporary understandings of tattooing as quasi-legitimate performance art in Canada.

Rachel Anne Farquharson, writer and curator
Curiouser and Curiouser: the Anxiety of the Flat
Essayist and curator Rachel Anne Farquharson (Toronto, ON) will explore ideas such as the false promises images make and the powerful and bewildering result of the flat quality of illustration, animation, and projected installation.

Generously supported by the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation