Reimagining Justice - Ideafest 2019

By Julie Sloan, Law Communications Officer

Ideafest is an annual series of events open to the public that showcase the exceptional research being done at the University of Victoria. UVic Law held several events, including a week-long exhibition called “Reimagining Justice,” which involved a series of talks about Law and Theatre, Law and Dance, Law and the Arts, and the Arts as Pedagogy. As part of this event, for the duration of the week, the UVic Dispute Resolution Room was transformed into an interactive art installation showcasing the relationship between art, law and social justice. The room was filled with creative projects that had been handed in as part of course work in classes such as Criminal Law, Business Associations, Family Law, Constitutional Law, and Sexual Orientation and the Law. The project was curated by Lorinda Fraser (MSc in Museum Studies). Click here for a link to the Exhibition Catalogue, which lists the students whose work was featured.

On the final day of the event, we held a “Gallery Walk” (link) where three of the professors who had been involved (Professors Gillian Calder, Rebecca Johnson and Sara Ramshaw) spoke in more detail about the specific projects that were in the room to open space for conversations about things that might be learned through producing, evaluating, and interacting with arts-based methods in the context of a law school. These images capture the sense of the exhibition.

The hidden costs of fast fashion

An archive of gendered items

Labour and creativity in work

Goal? To adopt a child before window of possibility closes

A papier mâché lantern to illuminate law?

The image behind the paper

A Re-working of “Are You My Mother?”

A Metis Mask and memories of teachings