Join Canadian philosopher of race, Alexis Shotwell, for an intimate discussion of Shary Boyle’s work in the artist’s solo exhibition, Outside the Palace of Me. Shotwell will discuss the historical formation of whiteness, the colonial origins of the term “white elephant” and its significance to the exhibition, and specific Canadian contexts that illuminate Boyle’s work on race.

The Gallery will open to discussion participants after the Museum closes at 6 pm.

About the speaker

Alexis Shotwell’s work focuses on complexity, complicity, and collective transformation. A professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University, which is located on unceded Algonquin land, she is the co-investigator for the AIDS Activist History Project (aidsactivisthistory.ca), and the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times.