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Pam Hall Risky Business: Speculations on the Challenges of Engagement
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Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist
based in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. She works across, and
sometimes in between, the boundaries of medium and discipline,
pioneering engaged art practices in diverse arenas. |
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This presentation was created by Hall for Live in Public: the Art of Engagement, a conference hosted by the grunt gallery October 11-13 2007 in Vancouver, B.C. To hear Pam Hall’s talk in context, listen to audio files for the entire conference on the Engaged Art Network. In 1992, Hall audited courses in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University to pursue research questions important to her work. In 1997 she returned for two years to serve as the first Artist-in-Residence there. For three years, Hall was a member of an interdisciplinary team of scholars exploring the ethical dimensions of the fisheries crisis on Canada's east and west coasts. This project enabled Hall to broaden and deepen her work on the fisheries, to work with biologists, ethicists, theologians, historians and others, and to create a body of work intended to include the voices of practicing fishers in the scholarly discourse around these issues. Since 2000, Hall has been undertaking writing workshops with women and girls throughout North America, to help her find and enable authors who will help her build a library of knowledge about "living in a female body". For more on Pam Hall, see her website.
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