Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) & Vivek Shraya in Conversation
The 2025 Goldfarb Summer Institute at York University “It’s Time to Laugh Again: Feminist Approaches to Humour in Art” presents Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) and Vivek Shraya in conversation.
Vivek Shraya Headshot by Vanessa Heins
Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre
Wednesday, June 18
5:00 – 6:30 PM
Free
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Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) was born in 1989 in Dallas, TX, and currently lives and works in New York City. The artist received her BA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2014. Kuriki-Olivo’s work is rooted in a conceptual practice that takes many forms including performances, installations, sculptures, drawings, paintings, and community organizing. The artist’s work questions standard notions of what is and isn’t art, blurs lines between the personal and public, and explores the performance of identity as it’s mediated through the commodities and media we consume and surround ourselves with.
Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, TV, film, and fashion. A three-time Canadian Screen Award winner, Vivek is the creator and writer of the CBC Gem Original Series How to Fail as a Popstar, which had its international premiere at Cannes. She was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize and has collaborated with musical icons Jann Arden, Peaches, and Jully Black. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel.” Vivek has been a brand ambassador for MAC Cosmetics and Pantene, a guest host on The Social and CBC’s q, and she is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation.
