A Maritime Sign Language interpretation of the Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity exhibition statement.

Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity
September 9, 2017–November 12, 2017
Organized in partnership with MSVU Art Gallery, Bodies in Translation, and Nova Scotia Centre on Aging.

MSVU Art Gallery collaborated with Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, and Access to Life and the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging at MSVU. In keeping with the project’s focus on socially engaged creative work by artists who embody difference, the works in the Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity exhibition address various facets of aging, including age-related disability. The exhibition features work by Maritimes-based artists, Cecil Day, Michael Fernandes, Karen Langlois, Onni Nordman, MJ Sakurai, George Steeves and Anna Torma.

This video was produced by Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life.

This video features Accessible Media Inc’s coverage of the Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity exhibition. In the video, journalist Laura Bain explores aging, identity, sexuality and disability through her experience of the artwork.

Bodies in Translation: Age and Creativity was exhibited at Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) Art Gallery from September 9 to November 12, 2017 bringing together artists from the Atlantic region whose work challenged assumptions about aging and explored the lived experience of aging as it relates to identity, culture, embodiment, sexuality and disability.

This exhibition was co-produced in partnership with MSVU Art Gallery, Nova Scotia Centre on Aging (NSCA) and Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life.

This video was produced by Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) in December 2017.