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ARTlab, University of Manitoba, 180 Dafoe Rd W, Winnipeg, MB
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Adrain McKerracher will be a Visiting Guest Speaker at the School of Art, University of Manitoba to present on his book, What It Means to Write: Creativity and Metaphor. The lecture will be followed by a writing workshop at 1:30 PM, Why you are not stuck: Using metaphor to reimagine your art practice.
Adrian McKerracher is an independent scholar, writer, and illustrator. He lives in Toronto.
Adrian McKerracher travels from Vancouver to Havana to Buenos Aires, leading readers on a journey to discover poignant new insights into a life of letters. Through encounters with artists of all kinds, famous or obscure, McKerracher traces a socio-cultural history of the meaning of writing, each vignette a meditation on the way that metaphor limits and liberates understanding: creativity is a process, a possession, a relation, an algorithm, a game, and more. But What It Means to Write is far more than an archive of the figurative. Along the way, a labyrinth of chance reunites McKerracher with old friends, threatens him with violence, and invites him to remain forever in a place both real and imagined. His journey from cafés to libraries to late-night living rooms embodies the structure of a bold new methodology for interpreting creativity, demonstrating the tools for working productively with ambiguity and rebuilding meaning, one metaphor at a time.
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