Events Are Always Original
The series of nine photographs, Events Are Always Original (2010), present images from Simon Fraser University’s Instructional Media Centre (IMC), documenting the aftermath of an 180 student occupation in the University’s Administration Building during November 1968. The students’ use of the space is shaped in the series as an argument for the necessity of re-appropriating university spaces in processes of self-organizing and locating specific demands. The title of the series is taken from Henri Lefebvre’s book, Explosion: Marxism and the French Revolution, written in response to the uprising in France during May of 1968.