Below the Radar Podcast with Am Johal and Kate Hennessy
In November 2024, Kate Hennessy sat down with the incredible Am Johal of SFU’s Vancouver Office of Community Engagement (VOCE) to talk about her collaborative work and recent exhibitions, including Becoming Anarchival (with Trudi Lynn Smith) at Gallery 881; Wrapped in the Cloud (with Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien) and team), and The Water We Call Home (with Rosemary Georgeson, Jessica Hallenbeck, and collaborators). Here is the podcast.
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From Below the Radar:
On this episode of Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by Kate Hennessy, Associate Professor at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology and member of anti-patriarchal, anti-colonial folk inspired punk band, The Saltlicks. Together, they chat about Kate’s practice in anthropology and contemporary art, the experience of working collaboratively and across disciplines, and her recent exhibitions Becoming Anarchival at Gallery 881 and The Water We Call Home on Galiano Island.
Featuring music by The Saltlicks (“Eyeliner,” “Waxing and Waning”).
Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-com...
Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-com...
Resources: Making Culture Lab: https://www.makingculturelab.com/
Ethnographic Terminalia: https://ethnographicterminalia.org/
The Water We Call Home: https://www.thewaterwecallhome.com/
Becoming Anarchival: https://www.smithhennessystudio.com/e...
The Saltlicks: https://thesaltlicks.bandcamp.com/alb...
Bio: Kate Hennessy is an Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). She is a cultural anthropologist with a PhD from the University of British Columbia (Anthropology). As the director of the Making Culture Lab at SIAT, her research explores the role of digital technology in the documentation and safeguarding of cultural heritage, and the mediation of culture, history, objects, and subjects in new forms. Her video and multimedia works investigate documentary methodologies to address Indigenous and settler histories of place and space. Current projects include the collaborative production of virtual museum exhibits with Indigenous communities in Canada; the study of new digital museum networks and their effects; ethnographic research on the implementation of large scale urban screens in public space; open-access and innovative forms of publishing; and, the intersections of anthropology and contemporary art practices. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Becoming Anarchival — with Kate Hennessy.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, February 18, 2025.