Jason Wiens (he/him) is a Professor in the Department of English and Associate Dean, Student Success in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary. His research interests include modern and contemporary poetry, literatures in Canada, literary audio, archival studies, and pedagogy. His is a co-applicant on the SSHRC Partnership The SpokenWeb.
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Co-curating the Marvin Francis Audio
Our dialogically-composed essay discusses our co-curation of a SpokenWeb-sponsored event with audio recordings from the Marvin Francis fonds at the University of Manitoba, held at Urban Shaman Gallery in Winnipeg in April 2023. Francis was a Cree poet and playwright active in the Winnipeg arts community in the 1990s and early 2000s, up until his death in 2005. We discuss the event in the broader context of the Marvin Francis archive and of Francis’ practice, and consider the role of this curatorial project in collective memory and affect, as well as the different political and ethical considerations of a project of this kind.