Roe Presents at the Society for the Study of Affect International Conference

The conference was held in October 2026 at Simon Fraser University (Downtown Campus), Vancouver, Canada. The installation took the form of a series of scroll-based prints hung against the windows in a corridor at Simon Fraser University’s Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre.

The imagery is composed of enlarged digitized scans of small analog photographic prints created during an ongoing series of site-responsive community workshops known as Marking Time With(in) the Water. Each scroll contains a subset of the 428 images cocreated with community members in relation to eight bodies of water over more than five years. This shared, place-based experience holds together the emotive, physical, and ephemeral through communal witnessing of the unpredictable visual imprints that emerge, made meaningful through their togetherness.

The SSA is a member-funded nonprofit that supports the international scholarly and artistic study of affect, producing both print and online media, including the SSA’s peer-reviewed and open access publications. Through events like conferences and workshops, publishing, social media, infrastructures of feeling, and non-institutional modes of mentorship, SSA aims to shake up existing structures and practices and foster a lively and engaged local and international community of affect study: discipline-specific, interdisciplinary, and non-academic inquiry that attends to those near-imperceptible, too-intense, interstitial, or in-the-making forces and feelings that make up our worlds.