CREATE 2021
Virtual, Innovative, Unbelievable - VIU! CREATE 2021 was successfully held entirely online. One hundred and fifty students from seven faculties shared their scholarly, research and creative projects. CREATE co-hosted the first Anti-Racism Arts Festival where more than 20 students shared powerful words, images and film. Below are some student project highlights and reflections of the event. “I have always been interested in the ways that food and drink, especially in a ritualistic context, facilitate human connection. In the Viking age, beer is an excellent example of embodied material culture that was valued as an everyday drink, but also worked as a tool of commensality and ritual. It was important to me to think creatively and to use a tactile approach to understand this vessel, so I attempted to craft a replica with birch bark that I personally harvested from recently fallen birch trees in Cowichan Valley. This experiment led me to consider how traditional knowledge involving the creation of similar vessels would be passed on generationally.”
Lisa Kremer, VIU Anthropology student
Student Creative Activity Seen Kashmir Lesnick-Petrovicz | Max Capacity Most seats were empty on this return ferry from a popular tourist destination in Ontario. It depicts a COVID summer – vacant seats, people staying home.
Shelby McLean | Finding Light In A Pandemic Without romanticizing it, it’s been a year of mastering the art of “wasting” time; a year of holding loved ones closer to the heart instead of the arms; a year of personalizing how a classroom looks outside the classroom; a year of discovering the little things aren’t so little in a pandemic.
Student Research Seen Samuelle Simard-Provençal | Yellow-rumped Warbler I collected fly parasites from live and beautiful birds, just like this stunning male. All birds were caught with the proper animal handling permits and highly trained staff.
Clark, Gledhill, Tippett, Bell and Girdler | Invisible Walls Images of racially restrictive covenants are pieced together in this photograph to address the historical aspects of racism in community planning and governance, as well as the legacy they have left behind.
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