Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: MaÏa Tellit Hawad
Schedule
Mon, 01 Jun, 2026 at 04:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, AB, Canada, Alberta T1L 1H5 | Banff, AB
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Location: Professional Development Centre Room 103Join us for an afternoon Visual Arts talk with Paris-based artist-scholar Maïa Tellit Hawad.
What does it mean to inhabit the Sahara nomadically today?
How are futures dreamed and invented from territories marked by environmental catastrophe and territorial dispossession?
Drawing on Tuareg nomadic imaginaries of land and relation, this talk focuses on counter-fields, expressed through gestures of ambush, camouflage, and the mending of a wounded desert. Through decolonial literary and artistic works that reclaim confiscated horizons, it examines Indigenous gestures of resistance, resilience, and fugitivity as ways of resignifying the desert as a space of possibility, creativity, and transnational solidarity.
Hawad is on faculty for Nomadisms, a project-based residency that provides mentorship and studio time to visual artists working in a wide range of possible mediums, including ceramics, digital media, painting, performance art, and sculpture.
The residency invites artists to engage with the theme of nomadism as both a critical and aesthetic framework. Across their collaborations and creations, participants approach nomadism as a site of inquiry and a form of attentiveness to the earth.
This event is part of the Visual Arts Open Lecture Series, which presents talks by leading Canadian and international artists, curators, and academics.
Visual Arts is supported by Fondation DRG and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Program.
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