Postmodern Metatheatre and Performance Art: Professional Wrestling’s Role in Cultivating Critical Arts Literacy
Project Objective This project investigates the hypothesis that professional wrestling operates as a highly accessible and potent model of postmodern metatheatre and performance art, not merely lowbrow spectacle. Utilizing the unique perspective of the contemporary…
Cultural Diplomacy – Respect and Mutual Benefit
This year-long research project explored organizational onboarding and health-focused cross-disciplinary training programs working with emerging artists from various backgrounds. I was able to work alongside multiple employees to explore constraints and opportunities to better understand…
ROADMAP: Co-Designed Digital Contexts
I have been working in the arts conducting research and creating supports for many years working for various governments and arts organizations and now specifically focus on how to promote healthier relationships and understand the…
Universe of Thought – a ritual of togetherness
Utilizing the elusive visual style Clayton Windatt produced in the recently produced Way of the Eye, 2022, Universe of Thought brings previous works together into a participatory experience of mystery and horror. The Way of…
Northland Wrestling is Coming to Durham!
Title – Northland Wrestling is Coming to Durham! Date of publishing – July 4th, 2022 Date of event – July 17th @ 1pm Location – Durham Community Centre and Arena – 451 Saddler St W,…
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Wrestling is not performance art
Professional wrestling is art, but a more complicated art form than most academics or arts professionals can fully understand as no amount of book-based research can allow one to comprehend this art form in its entirety. I could profile the history of professional wrestling which…
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Artists are essential to Canada
June 14th, 2022 clayton windatt The proposed Bill S-208 expresses the need for the Government of Canada to develop an action plan that ensures equal opportunities to accessing and enjoying many forms of artistic expression by many peoples and communities. The listed considerations appear as…
My Fundraising Campaign
UPDATE UPDATE findingtrackzero is the largest arts project I have ever done. It is both an exploration of my past and a commentary on our collective futures. I am raising funds to cover the production costs of the book, box and the floppy disk duplication…
conscient podcast / balado conscient – e49 windatt
Enjoyed being on conscient with Claude Schryer very much. The discussion took shape as some very large subjects that affect many people. I enjoy trying to be productive even when things feel a little hopeless. Now I am gonna go clean the side of the…
moving forward 2021…
A start to this year by clayton windatt As someone who has worked in artist-run culture and community arts for many years, noise, interaction and critical discourse has become a constant for me and I grew accustomed to it. Witnessing people coming and going, socializing…
Basic Income Guarantee / Revenu Minimum Garanti
Hi All, I have been working with a lot of artists and arts professionals from across the country all trying to formalize a pathway forward for a Basic Income Guarantee in Canada. I feel strongly that this program can benefit artists very much, as a…
findingtrackzero
STATEMENT: findingtrackzero After my initial period of loss, isolation and mourning, I focused on my artistic practice carrying forward existing projects and adapting them into my new life of social distance in a digital arts community. “findingtrackzero” was a research exploration project making commentary on data…
THE ART OF CULTURAL DIPLOMACY BETWEEN PEOPLE, PLACES AND WITHIN RELATIONSHIPS.
I wanted to take a moment to reflect a bit on relationship building in the arts and how the term “Cultural Diplomacy” has begun to occupy a greater amount of space in my life. Relationship building is complicated, and has intricate details that impact each…
THE SPACE BETWEEN US
THE SPACE BETWEEN US When reflecting on message-making and forming public opinions that include multiple voices, consideration on how consensus can be reached becomes mandatory. Often artists, advocates and activators react to changes in situation (political, economic, social, etc.) quickly, giving very little time to…
CHANGE MAKERS / MAKERS for CHANGE
BACKGROUND: My research and policy development exploration project “CHANGE MAKERS / MAKERS for CHANGE” was a lot of fun allowing me to engage peers that I would not have had the ability to engage at this level. My attempt was to take an evaluative look…
Mid-Life Crisis // Hyperbolic ARC
After reflecting on the history of the White Water Gallery as well as several other Artist-run Centre’s Curators Fynn Leitch and Clayton Windatt generated the following text as a summary. It was installed at the WKP Kennedy Gallery on behalf of the White Water Gallery,…
Keep on “KEEPING ON”
Iakwé:iahre [we remember] October 16 – 18, 2014 Concordia University, Montreal I AM GOING TO THIS EVENT AND PRESENTING AT IT. READ MORE: The Iakwé:iahre Colloquium is presented by the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective / Collectif des Conservateurs autochtones (ACC/CCA) on the traditional territory of the…
Integrated Opposition launches!
“Integrated Opposition” is a curatorial project developed by Clayton Windatt dealing with critical contemporary concepts within a community arts setting as part of the Dances of Resistance project produced by Aanmitaagzi. The term “Integrated Opposition” connects with the current status of aboriginal people within the future…
Dances of Resistance
Arts, Culture and Heritage are the building blocks of society as they represent the health that comes from fundamental aspects of “community” working properly. When the management of a community, municipality or first nation band has a good relationship with their residents as well as…
Make Things Happen!
I recently was invited to write a blog posting for the Canada Council for the Arts. It was a great pleasure to share some of my experiences on working in community in the arts. I am very happy with how it went and would do…
Under the Ice
Rallying for support of arts culture and heritage is not an easy task, especially in a region like the Nipissing District. In our region, people live farther apart than in major urban centre’s and there are less of us here so it is very difficult…
PANONO SUCCESS!!!
The Indiegogo Campaign was a huge success raising $685 dollars which is 114% of the amount needed. I would like to thank the following people: Jordan Wyshniowsky, Fynn Leitch, Tara Windatt, soJin Chun, Keith Campbell, Dave Burnt, Alice S. McLeod, Aleks Bartosik, Craig Dellandrea, Allan…
ESCAPE PLAN B
ESCAPE PLAN B is a project that I have been developing for a while. It addresses my obsession with the end of the world and the impulse to abandon the modern world entirely. These 26 assembled bags are a starting point for anyone that wants…