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Pam Hall

Risky Business:

Speculations on the Challenges of Engagement

 

Click to proceed directly to slide presentation by Pam Hall on the challenges of engaged art practice

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.

She makes visual art, constructs installations, works with language, and is engaged in film, video, and most recently, performance. She works alone and collaborates with communities. Her work has been shown throughout Canada and internationally. Since 1998, Hall has been a faculty member in the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College in Vermont.

 

Pam Hall Risky Business: Speculations on the Challenges of EngagementBy clicking on the graphic left, you will open Adobe Flash Player to view and hear a presentation in which Pam Hall explores the challenges and risks of engaged art practice. The entire 21-minute sound file of Pam Hall’s talk is attached to the first slide in the presentation. You can proceed manually through the slides without listening to the sound presentation, reading the notes attached to each - or leave the first slide open to hear her entire talk. (If you do not have Adobe Flash Player on your computer, you can download it free HERE.)

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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