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What Punk Taught Me: Necessary Transgressions

This presentation examines the impact that punk culture has had on both my personal development and the growth of my professional career. Analyzed through the contextual lens of growing up in the late 80s/early 90s punk scene of a small western Canadian city, this presentation creates a correlation between my punk experience and my later ethos and philosophy of as a mid-career artist and writer. Punk culture taught me that sometimes transgressions are necessary to move things forward or in another direction.

This presentation draws a parallel between these lessons from punk and the theories of transgression of bell hooks, as well as José Ortega y Gasset’s critical role of philosophy to question beliefs and critique authority.