Troubling Knowledge
Troublemaking is ecological knowledge.
Troublemaking is nuanced like ceremony.
Troublemaking is a multi-directional form of creation.
We are gathering troublemakers together to dream for …
Troublemaking, and its Trouble Makers, have always been the best part of our human stories, and the trouble that they make helps us to learn. These Trouble Makers are the original teachers, they are original critical thinkers, and they are still contributing to our current knowledge systems. Trouble Makers operate in ancient knowledge with deep heart work. They dream of the future(s). They are shapeshifters, upstream swimmers, and time travellers. They are kin – tricksters – that are familiar to us: Coyote, Raven, Wisakedjak, Nanabush, Tanuki, Napi, Hanuman, Jade Fox, Ananse. This is only a short list… who are the Trouble Makers in your life?
The ‘Troubling Knowledge’ speakers series is being held at OCAD University in 2024/2025. This speaker series is for OCAD U graduate students and the broader community of creators who participate in making knowledge.
The Troubling Knowledge speakers/workshop series is intended to inform, and help to shape a symposium on troublemaking in May 2025, this symposium will happen as a piece of the yearly Indigenous Art Intensive at UBCOkanagan. This symposium will bring together Risk-Takers and Trouble Makers from Indigenous and diverse BIPOC Ancestries to think, create, and dream alongside one another about the practice of troublemaking and how troubling knowledge helps the collective to transform.
