November 27, 2024 (Zoom): Cross-Pollinations

Join the League of Canadian Poets, the Health Arts Research Centre, and the Canadian Association for Health Humanities for the next iteration of the Cross-Pollinations Virtual Rounds Series.

November 27, 2024 | 3pm PT/6pm ET

Join us on November 27, 2024, for a Cross Pollinations event on the theme of Neurology and Brain Illness. This event will feature a reading by poet Jim Johnstone, and a talk from researcher, artist, and curator Marilène Oliver.

Jim Johnstone headshot
Marilene Oliver headshot

Jim Johnstone

Jim Johnstone is a Toronto-based poet, editor, and critic. He has published seven collections of poetry, most recently The King of Terrors (Coach House Books, 2023), and is also the author of the Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry (The Porcupine's Quill, 2024), and Write, Print, Fold and Staple: On Poetry and Micropress in Canada (Gaspereau Press, 2023). Johnstone holds an MSc from the University of Toronto, and founded the Anstruther Books imprint at Palimpsest Press.

Marilène Oliver

Marilène Oliver works at a crossroads between new digital technologies, traditional print and sculpture, her finished objects bridging the virtual and the real worlds. Oliver uses various scanning technologies, such as MRI and CT to reclaim the interior of the body and create art works that allow us to contemplate our increasingly digitised selves. Oliver has created several artworks using scans of brains and on the subject of caring for her mother who had Lewy Body Dementia. With Professor Simonetta Sipionne, Oliver curated the exhibition Connections: Bringing Neuroscience and Art Together which opens at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alberta on 21st November 2024. Marilène Oliver is an associate professor of printmaking and media arts at the University of Alberta, Canada. Oliver has exhibited internationally in both private and public galleries including the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Wellcome Trust (UK), MassMoCA, Knoxville Museum of Art (USA) Frissarias Museum (Greece), Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Fundació Sorigué (Spain) and The Glenbow Museum (Canada). Her work is held in several private collections around the world as well as a number of public collections such as The Wellcome Trust, Victoria and Albert Museum and Knoxville Museum of Art.

Recordings from past events can be viewed on YouTube.