"What you risk reveals what you value." Jeanette Winterson

roewan crowe

professor, university of winnipeg

WHAT I DO

Trans-disciplinary, queer, feminist artist and writer. Through the use of performance, installation, video, text, and theory, recent work creates intimate landscapes, making space for feelings, connection, and queer encounters. Interested in material explorations, questions of form, site-specificity, and relationships among bodies, text, image and more-than-human.

A dream unfurling. Located on the fifth floor of the library at UW, the greenhouse artlab is a queer feminist space for thinking and making. It is a quiet studio for experimentation. It is a space to think in solitude or with others to develop reflective practices and writing about artistic processes, creativity and the imagination.

Thinking, writing, and practicing ways to create dynamic and rich environments for risk-taking, art-making, learning and transformation. Teaching as activism. Teaching as art. Informed by critical, radical, decolonizing, revolutionary, and feminist pedagogies.

WHAT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON
BLOG
  • Gallery 1C03 presents the virtual exhibition, SWARM March 3 – April 9, 2022 https://swarm.greenhouseartlab.com/ Gallery 1C03 is pleased to host SWARM, an online exhibition program of the SWARM artist collective. In addition to a film screening and public discussion, SWARM includes the launch of the arc.hive, a virtual sympoetic space that holds the work of 8 […]

  • November 17-19, 2017 Video Pool’s “Isolated Landscapes: The Gathering” begins tonight here in the ‘Peg. There are screenings, performances, and talks. So many interesting artists will be in attendance. ALL FREE (except Big Wig by Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey). I am thrilled to be part of this gathering. I am giving a talk (poetry!) on […]

  • October 20-22, 2017 I’ve been working with co-chairs Drs. Chantal Fiola and Sharanpal Ruprai on the conference planning committee for C2C. “C2C: Two-Spirit & Queer People of Colour: A Call to Conversation with LGBT & Allies” is a conference hosted by the University of Winnipeg (UW) in partnership with Two-Spirit People of Manitoba and QTPOC Winnipeg. […]

QUOTES
  • I had no nation now but the imagination.

    - Derek Walcott

  • To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

    - Louise Bourgeois

  • To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

    -June Jordan

  • Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you made.

    -Dorothy Allison