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SUMMARY:PDA Case Study: A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention
DESCRIPTION:PDA: Case Study: A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention\nSunday\, October 4 | 2pm \nCase Study: A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention\nConversation with Aislinn Thomas\, Shannon Finnegan\, and Ramya Amuthan \nClick HERE to register. \nThis event will take place over Zoom. Please register via Eventbrite (link above) to receive the Zoom link closer to the event date. \n  \nIn August 2019\, artists Aislinn Thomas and Shannon Finnegan published a broadsheet and accessible PDF for A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention: Six writers respond to six sculptures through the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre. Also presented as a series of sound works\, the project invited writers and poets across Canada to produce creative audio descriptions for a range of public sculptures installed throughout the Banff Centre. \nFor this case study session\, Thomas and Finnegan will be in discussion\, reflecting on the project and the challenges and opportunities of creative audio description in both accessible publishing and gallery/museum practices. They will be joined by Ramya Amuthan\, host and producer at Accessible Media Inc\, for further reflection. \n  \nThis discussion is part of Public Displays of Affection (PDA): an expanded series of events on creative possibilities in accessible arts publishing\, hosted by Critical Distance. PDA will work within disability arts communities and beyond\, building on Kelly Fritsch’s notion that “to crip is to open up with desire to the ways that disability disrupts.” Over the next several months\, PDA will produce a collective learning opportunity that considers the pleasures\, desires\, and disruptions of making arts publishing initiatives more accessible. Stay tuned for more events in the coming weeks and months. Read more about the program here. \nThis event will take place on Zoom\, and have ASL and captioning. Images will be described and presenters will describe themselves. If you have any other access requests or questions please contact emily@criticaldistance.ca \nThis program is made possible through the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. \n \n \n  \nSpeaker Info: \nAislinn Thomas​ is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes video\, performance\, sculpture\, installation\, and text. She culls material from everyday experiences and relationships\, creating work that ranges from poignant to absurd (and at times straddles both). Her recent works explore the generative potential of disability while pushing up against conventional standards of access.\nClick here for Aislinn’s work. \nShannon Finnegan​ is a multidisciplinary artist making work about accessibility and disability culture. They have done projects with Banff Centre\, Friends of the High Line\, Tallinn Art Hall\, Nook Gallery\, and the Wassaic Project. They have spoken about their work at the Brooklyn Museum\, School for Poetic Computation\, The 8th Floor\, and The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. In 2018\, They received a Wynn Newhouse Award and participated in Art Beyond Sight’s Art + Disability Residency. In 2019\, they were an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam. They spoke at Carleton University in 2019. They are currently exhibiting\, ​Lone Proponent of Wall-to-Wall Carpet​ at Carleton University Art Gallery. Their work has been written about in C Magazine\, Art in America\, Hyperallergic\, and the New York Times. They live and work in Brooklyn\, NY. \nRamya Amuthan​ is currently a Host and Producer at Accessible Media Inc (AMI). She works with the live afternoon show team for the daily Entertainment and Lifestyle audio show called Kelly and Company. Ramya’s work involves meeting fascinating people\, hearing their stories\, and facilitating conversations that bring out the messages wanting to be told to the disability community around Canada. Ramya is also the Co-creator of Adventures\, a chapter of the Canadian Council of the Blind\, based in Toronto\, offering and facilitating opportunities for blind and low vision individuals to challenge comfort zones and take part in daring physical activities. Ramya always makes time for hobbies; including singing – for herself and sometimes others\, dancing – mostly Brazilian Zouk\, and brushing up on her culinary skills.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/pda-case-study/
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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SUMMARY:PDA: Crip Culture and Digital Experiments
DESCRIPTION:PDA: Crip Culture and Digital Experiments\nMonday\, September 28\, 2020 | 5:30pm \nCrip Culture and Digital Experiments\nA Panel Discussion with Jessa Agilo\, Aimi Hamraie\, and Yo-Yo Lin\, led by Lindsay Fisher\, Creative Users Projects \nClick HERE to register. \nThis event will take place over Zoom. Please register via Eventbrite (link above) to receive the Zoom link closer to the event date. \nArtists\, activists\, and others in disability communities have been adapting online tools and platforms for work and play since well before the pandemic forced able-bodied people online. What creative solutions and experiments in the digital sphere have been happening within disability communities? What have we learned so far from the efforts to come together and adapt tools that were not designed with disability in mind? Join us as we discuss the particular joys and challenges of creative access in an online world\, with reflections from Jessa Agilo\, Aimi Hamraie\, and Yo-Yo Lin. This conversation is moderated by Lindsay Fisher\, Founder and Director of Creative Users Projects. \nThis discussion will set the stage for Public Displays of Affection (PDA): an expanded series of events on creative possibilities in accessible arts publishing\, hosted by Critical Distance. PDA will work within disability arts communities and beyond\, building on Kelly Fritsch’s notion that “to crip is to open up with desire to the ways that disability disrupts.” Over the next several months\, PDA will produce a collective learning opportunity that considers the pleasures\, desires\, and disruptions of making arts publishing initiatives more accessible. Stay tuned for more events in the coming weeks and months. \nThis event will have ASL and captioning. Images will be described and presenters will describe themselves. If you have any other access requests or questions please contact emily@criticaldistance.ca \nThis program is made possible through the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. \n \n \n  \nSpeaker Info: \nJessa Agilo is an integrated arts creator\, producer\, changemaker\, and social entrepreneur with a three-decade career boosting social\, spatial\, economic\, digital\, and accessibility justice for equity-seeking groups across all disciplines in Canadian arts and culture. She is currently the founder of ArtsPond\, where she has led ground-breaking efforts to address gentrification (Groundstory)\, digital transformation of arts services (DigitalASO)\, COVID-19 response (I Lost My Gig Canada)\, the design of open source arts management software (Hatch Open)\, platform cooperatives (Artse United)\, and creative land trusts (Groundtrust). Jessa is a mentor to young leaders from Humber College\, University of Toronto\, Ryerson University\, and more. She was recognized with the Humberto Santos Award in Business and Administration in 2006 and Toronto Arts Council’s Leaders Lab in 2019. \nAimi Hamraie is Associate Professor of Medicine\, Health\, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University\, where they direct the Critical Design Lab. Hamraie is author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017) and host of the Contra* podcast on disability\, design justice\, and the lifeworld. Their interdisciplinary research spans critical disability studies\, science and technology studies\, critical design and urbanism\, critical race theory\, and the environmental humanities. Hamraie is also a certified permaculture designer\, a co-founder of the Nashville Disability Justice Collective\, and an organizer for the Nashville Mutual Aid Collective. \nYo-Yo Lin is a Taiwanese-American\, interdisciplinary media artist who explores the possibilities of self-knowledge in the context of emerging\, embodied technologies. She often uses generative animation\, live performance\, and lush sound design to create meditative ‘memoryscapes.’ Her current work reveals and re-values the complex realities of living with chronic illness. Through researching and developing methodologies in reclaiming chronic health trauma\, she investigates the generative nature of the ill/ disabled bodymind and facilitates sites for community-centered abundance. She was a 2019 ‘Access’ Artist in Residence at Eyebeam and has shown her work at SXSW\, NYFF\, and the Allied Media Conference. She finds herself at-home in New York City\, Los Angeles\, and Taipei. \nLindsay Fisher ​is an artist\, designer and producer working in the not for profit sector. She is the founder and director of Creative Users Projects\, an arts service organization that connects organizations\, artists and audiences to accessible arts across Canada. Lindsay holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University and a Bachelor of Graphic Design from OCAD University.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/pda-crip-culture-and-digital-experiments/
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Charlotte Zhang & Friends of Chinatown Toronto
DESCRIPTION:To bring about a skill-sharing dialogue between artist and organizer\, Charlotte Zhang will moderate a Q&A with Toronto-based community group\, Friends of Chinatown TO (FOCT). Zhang will inquire into FOCT’s first-steps to organizing in a working class community\, formulating demands\, and strategizing around campaigns. With the tools and skills cultural workers have at our disposal\, how do we direct our participation\, privilege\, and artistic strategies towards developing tactics and resisting neoliberal entanglements? \nThe conversation will be followed by a round of questions submitted from the public. Please submit your questions for FOCT in advance by emailing aaron@imagesfestival.com. \nPresented by Images Festival 2020\nCo-presented with Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Critical Distance Centre For Curators \nPresented in conjunction with Pine Street: Charlotte Zhang\nFor program info\, visit: https://imagesfestival.com/programs/pine-street:-charlotte-zhang/
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/in-conversation-charlotte-zhang-friends-of-chinatown-toronto/
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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SUMMARY:Eleana Antonaki In Conversation with ma ma
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Brooklyn-based artist Eleana Antonaki and curators ma ma (Magdalyn Asimakis and Heather Rigg) held in conjunction with the exhibition A Big Heritage with A Glorious Past at Critical Distance. Antonaki\, Asimakis\, and Rigg will discuss Antonaki’s work within the exhibition and her practice more broadly\, alongside questions of politically motivated migration\, ideas of home and temporary housing\, and archaeology. \nThis event is taking place at the Small World Music Centre\, Studio 101 in Artscape Youngplace.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/eleana-antonaki-in-conversation-with-ma-ma/
LOCATION:Small World Music\, 180 Shaw St\, Toronto\, ON\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6J 2W5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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SUMMARY:The Culture of Crip Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:Panel discussion with Sean Lee\, Elizabeth Sweeney\, Andy Slater\, Wy Joung Kou and Aislinn Thomas\nModerated by Emily Cook
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/the-culture-of-crip-aesthetics/
LOCATION:Critical Distance\, Suite 122 at 401 Richmond Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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SUMMARY:Indigeneity\, Neurodiversity and the Arts
DESCRIPTION:INDIGENEITY\, NEURODIVERSITY\, AND THE ARTS\nA conversation with Vanessa Dion Fletcher and Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning \nDOLLEEN TISAWII’ASHII MANNING is a member of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation\, currently residing in Toronto. She is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar\, with a PhD in Theory and Criticism (Western University) and an MFA in Contemporary Art (Simon Fraser University). Manning is an Assistant Professor in Indigenous Education and Pedagogy at York University\, on leave while completing her SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Michigan State University (Philosophy\, 2018-2020). Manning’s research takes up Anishinaabe imaging practices\, epistemological sovereignty\, and the debilitating impact of settler colonial logics. \nVANESSA DION FLETCHER is a Lenape and Potawatomi neurodiverse artist. She graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 with an MFA in performance\, and she has exhibited across Canada and the US at Art Mur (Montreal)\, Eastern Edge Gallery (Newfoundland)\, The Queer Arts Festival (Vancouver)\, Satellite Art Show (Miami). Her work is in the Indigenous Art Centre\, Joan Flasch Artist Book collection\, Vtape\, and Seneca College. In 2019 Vanessa is supported by the City of Toronto Indigenous partnerships fund to be artist in residence at OCAD University.\nhttps://www.dionfletcher.com/ \nAccessibility at this event:\nSmall World Music is located on the south side of the first floor at Artscape Youngplace\, a wheelchair accessible building with a ramp at the 180 Shaw Street doors\, and an accessible washroom on every level. Gendered multi-stall washrooms are also on every level\, and single stall family washrooms are available on levels 2 and 3. All levels are accessible via elevator and stairs. The TTC’s 63 Ossington bus stops at Queen and Shaw and is wheelchair accessible. \nCDCC seeks to facilitate a scent-free environment in order to reduce barriers to access for people with chemical sensitivities\, and we ask all participants to kindly refrain from using or wearing scented products or materials in advance of and during this and other events. \nCDCC will provide ASL interpretation and attendant care during this event. Attendants and ASL interpreters will be introduced at the start of the event and seating with a clear view of the ASL interpreters will be set aside for anyone who needs it. Childcare can also be made available if needed. \nIf you would like to reserve accessible seating or inquire about childcare\, please contact us as far in advance as possible so that we can make arrangements to meet your needs. Late-breaking requests will also be accepted and we will always do our best to meet them but these will be subject to availability at the time of the request. \nPlease contact us at emily@criticaldistance.ca with these and any other requests or questions. Supporting your access is our priority. The event will also be recorded and captioned. More details to follow.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/indigeneity-neurodiversity-and-the-arts/
LOCATION:Small World Music\, 180 Shaw St\, Toronto\, ON\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6J 2W5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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SUMMARY:PRESSING THE ISSUE Part 2: Critical Arts Publishing in Canada Continued
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to continue the conversation on the state of independent critical arts publishing across Canada with a panel involving Anthea Black and Jessica Lynn Whitbread from The HIV Howler\, Adrienne Crossman from Off Centre\, Lauren Lavery from Peripheral Review\, and Niki Little from imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival\, moderated by Maxine Proctor. \nThere will be refreshments and all are welcome. Location is Artscape Youngplace\, on the first floor at Unit 101\, Small World Music Centre. Building is wheelchair accessible. This is a FREE event but please RSVP to rsvp@criticaldistance.ca as this helps us plan for enough space and refreshments. \nThis event follows Happy Hour with The HIV Howler\, a presentation by Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread in conversation with Danielle St. Amour (SBC galerie d’art contemporain – Gallery of Contemporary Art). \n  \nBIOGRAPHIES \nAnthea Black is a Canadian artist\, writer\, and cultural worker based in San Francisco and Toronto. Her studio work addresses feminist and queer history\, collaboration\, materiality\, and labour and has been exhibited in Canada\, the US\, France\, Germany\, The Netherlands\, and Norway. Black is co-editor of HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education with Shamina Chherawala and The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft\, Art and Design with Nicole Burisch\, and publisher of The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism with Jessica Whitbread. She is an Assistant Professor in Printmedia and Graduate Fine Arts at California College of the Arts. \nJessica Whitbread is a graduate of the York University Masters of Environmental Studies program\, she has a degree in Building Communities to Ignite Social Change. She is a queer activist and artist that has been working in the HIV movement since shortly after her diagnosis in 2002. Her work includes LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN\, Tea Time\, No Pants No Problem and she is a co-curator of POSTERVirus. Jessica published Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV in 2015. She was the Wesley Mancini Artist in Residence at the McColl Center for Art and Innovation\, and a recipient of the Premier’s Award from the Government of Ontario\, and the Visual AIDS Vanguard Award. In 2016\, she gave birth to twins and advocated to openly breastfeed them in a Canadian context. \nAdrienne Crossman (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist\, educator and curator working in Hamilton\, Ontario. They hold an MFA in Visual Art from the University of Windsor (2018)\, and a BFA in Integrated Media with a Minor in Digital and Media Studies from OCAD University (2012). Their practice investigates the liminality between the digital and the physical while highlighting queer sensibilities in the everyday. Crossman is interested in how the terms trans* and non-binary apply to media as well as gender\, and she creates queer interventions through the manipulation of digital media and popular culture with a focus on the queer potentiality of the non-human. Adrienne is a co-founder and co-runs the online arts publication off centre with collaborator Luke Maddaford. \nLauren Lavery is a Toronto-based visual artist\, writer and editor of the exhibition review magazine Peripheral Review. Her writing has been published by LUMA Quarterly\, Public Parking\, Peripheral Review\, and has written texts for Y+ Contemporary and Xpace Cultural Centre in Toronto. She has exhibited in Vancouver\, Winnipeg\, Toronto and Cambridge\, ON. She holds a BFA with honours from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver. \nNiki Little is a mother\, softball coach\, artist/observer/community-curator and arts administrator. Little is a founding member of The Ephemerals art collective with Jaimie Isaac and Jenny Western who are long-listed for the 2019 Sobey Arts Award. She is of Anishininew / English descent from Kistiganwacheeng (Garden Hill\, FN). Her interests lay in Indigenous community-based artistic and curatorial strategies that investigate cultural consumerism\, Indigenous women\, and Indigenous economies. Little recently started as Artistic Director at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. Before imagineNATIVE\, she was the Director for the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition. \nMaxine Proctor demonstrates an ongoing commitment to creating meaningful connections between audiences and contemporary art through her curatorial projects\, educational programs\, and community outreach initiatives. A former resident of Saskatoon\, Maxine completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan prior to pursuing a Master of Arts\, Art History and Curatorial Studies at York University in Toronto. As director and co-founder of the Toronto Art Book Fair\, and the managing editor of Black Flash Magazine\, Maxine deeply values printed matter and understands the unique challenges and opportunities for print publishing. \n  \nLOCATION AND ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION \nSmall World Music and Critical Distance Centre for Curators\nSuite 101 and 302 (respectively) at Artscape Youngplace\n180 Shaw Street (between Dundas and Queen Street in Toronto’s Queen West neighbourhood)\nToronto\, Ontario M6J 2W5 Canada\nGoogle Map \nArtscape Youngplace and Critical Distance are fully accessible by Ontario standards\, with a wheelchair ramp at the 180 Shaw Street doors\, an elevator servicing every floor\, and a fully accessible washroom on every level. The nearby 63 Ossington bus on the TTC is wheelchair accessible. \n\nThis event is held in conjunction with Publishing Against the Grain\, co-presented with iCI (Independent Curators International) (Independent Curators International). Critical Distance would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council – Conseil des arts de l’Ontario for support in making this exhibition and related events possible. \n\nimage: screenshot of detail of I am so afraid of words\, 2019 by Tal Sofia\, as featured in Peripheral Review\, June 13\, 2019 by Chelsea Rozansky.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/pressing-the-issue-pt-2-critical-arts-publishing-in-canada-continued/
LOCATION:Small World Music\, 180 Shaw St\, Toronto\, ON\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6J 2W5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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SUMMARY:HAPPY HOUR WITH THE HIV HOWLER
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY HOUR WITH THE HIV HOWLER\nJoin us for a presentation by Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread\, founders of The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism in conversation with Danielle St. Amour (SBC galerie d’art contemporain – Gallery of Contemporary Art). \nRefreshments will be served and all are welcome. Location is Artscape Youngplace\, exact space TBD. Building is wheelchair accessible.This is a FREE event but please RSVP to rsvp@criticaldistance.ca to help us to plan space and refreshments. \nThe HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism is a limited edition art newspaper focusing on global grassroots HIV art and cultural production. Artists\, writers and activists play a fundamental role in shaping broader societal understandings of HIV and working from within communities that are most impacted by the virus. Together we reflect the immediacy and urgency of global HIV/AIDS dialogues as well as their historical continuities. The HIV Howler is a forum for dialogue\, a demand for aesthetic self-determination\, a response to tokenism\, and a guide to navigating the vibrational ambiguities between policy\, pathology\, and community. \nCome for the happy hour and stay for PRESSING THE ISSUE\, PART 2: Continuing the conversation on the state of independent critical arts publishing projects in Canada with Anthea Black and Jessica Whitbread from The HIV Howler\, Adrienne Crossman from Off Centre\, Lauren Lavery from Peripheral Review\, and Niki Little from imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. \n  \nAnthea Black is a Canadian artist\, writer\, and cultural worker based in San Francisco and Toronto. Her studio work addresses feminist and queer history\, collaboration\, materiality\, and labour and has been exhibited in Canada\, the US\, France\, Germany\, The Netherlands\, and Norway. Black is co-editor of HANDBOOK: Supporting Queer and Trans Students in Art and Design Education with Shamina Chherawala and The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft\, Art and Design with Nicole Burisch\, and publisher of The HIV Howler: Transmitting Art and Activism with Jessica Whitbread. She is an Assistant Professor in Printmedia and Graduate Fine Arts at California College of the Arts. \nJessica Whitbread is a graduate of the York University Masters of Environmental Studies program\, she has a degree in Building Communities to Ignite Social Change. She is a queer activist and artist that has been working in the HIV movement since shortly after her diagnosis in 2002. Her work includes LOVE POSITIVE WOMEN\, Tea Time\, No Pants No Problem and she is a co-curator of POSTERVirus. Jessica published Tea Time: Mapping Informal Networks of Women Living with HIV in 2015. She was the Wesley Mancini Artist in Residence at the McColl Center for Art and Innovation\, and a recipient of the Premier’s Award from the Government of Ontario\, and the Visual AIDS Vanguard Award. In 2016\, she gave birth to twins and advocated to openly breastfeed them in a Canadian context. \nThis event is held in conjunction with Publishing Against Grain\, co-presented with iCI (Independent Curators International). Critical Distance would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council – Conseil des arts de l’Ontario for support in making this exhibition and related events possible.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/happy-hour-with-the-hiv-howler/
LOCATION:Small World Music\, 180 Shaw St\, Toronto\, ON\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6J 2W5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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SUMMARY:PRESSING THE ISSUE Part 1: On Critical Arts Publishing in Canada
DESCRIPTION:Join us July 8th\, 2019 starting at 7pm at Small World Music Centre\, Suite 101 of Artscape Youngplace; reception to follow in gallery at Critical Distance\, Suite 302. \n\nWe are thrilled to host a conversation with founders and co-founders of indie critical arts publishing projects in Canada including; Cecilia Berkovic (EMILIA-AMALIA)\, and Ben Donoghue (MICE Magazine)\, Merray Gerges (CRIT paper)\, Steffanie Ling (Charcuterie\, Bartleby Review\, STILLS)\, and Vanessa Runions (Carbon Paper). This panel will be moderated by Maxine Proctor. \n\nThere will be refreshments and all are welcome. This is a FREE event but please RSVP to rsvp@criticaldistance.ca. There will be non-alcoholic drinks available.\n\n\nLOCATION AND ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION \nSmall World Music and Critical Distance Centre for Curators\nSuite 101 and 302 (respectively) at Artscape Youngplace\n180 Shaw Street (between Dundas and Queen Street in Toronto’s Queen West neighbourhood)\nToronto\, Ontario M6J 2W5 Canada\nGoogle Map \nArtscape Youngplace and Critical Distance are fully accessible by Ontario standards\, with a wheelchair ramp at the 180 Shaw Street doors\, an elevator servicing every floor\, and a fully accessible washroom on every level. The nearby 63 Ossington bus on the TTC is wheelchair accessible. \nThis event is held in conjunction with Publishing Against the Grain\, co-presented with iCI (Independent Curators International) (Independent Curators International). Critical Distance would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council – Conseil des arts de l’Ontario for support in making this exhibition and related events possible. \n\nimage: screenshot from Bartleby Review (eds\, Steffanie Ling and Bopha Chhay)
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/pressing-the-issue-pt-1-on-critical-arts-publishing-in-canada/
LOCATION:Small World Music\, 180 Shaw St\, Toronto\, ON\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6J 2W5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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SUMMARY:Curating for the Future with AGYU Visiting Curator Tian Zhang
DESCRIPTION:A FREE PUBLIC PRESENTATION BY AGYU VISITING CURATOR TIAN ZHANG  \nWEDNESDAY\, JUNE 19\, 2019 starting at 7PM at Small World Music Theatre\, Suite 101 of Artscape Youngplace\, 180 Shaw Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M6J 2W5 \nAGYU and Critical Distance Centre For Curators (CDCC) are pleased to co-present a curatorial talk by AGYU Visiting Curator Tian Zhang (Sydney\, Australia). A presentation of Tian’s work will be followed by a facilitated conversation hosted by Emelie Chhangur (AGYU)\, Myung-Sun Kim (Toronto Biennial of Art)\, and Shani K Parsons (Critical Distance).\n\nTIAN ZHANG is a curator and cultural producer interested in socially-engaged\, alternative and activist curatorial methodologies. Her work has been shown nationally in Australia\, including at Customs House Sydney\, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts and Metro Arts. Her curatorial project I Am\, You Are\, We Are\, They Are (2017) was nominated for a Museums and Galleries of NSW Imagine Award and she has produced multiple award-winning socially-engaged and site-specific works for Urban Theatre Projects (Bankstown:Live\, 2015 and Home Country\, 2017). Tian is the Chair of Firstdraft\, Australia’s longest running artist-led organisation and a founding co-director of Pari\, a new artist-run initiative for Parramatta. She is an alumni of the Australia Council for the Arts Future Leaders Program 2018. \nEMELIE CHHANGUR is an award-winning curator\, writer\, and artist based in Toronto\, where she works as Interim Director/Curator of Art Gallery of York University (AGYU). Chhangur is known for her process-based\, participatory curatorial practice\, the commissioning of complex works across all media\, and the creation of long-term collaborative projects performatively staged within and outside the gallery context. Dedicated to questioning the social and civic role of the contemporary art gallery\, Chhangur is known for a practice she calls “in-reach\,” which is transforming institutional practice in the arts across Canada. \nSituated in Toronto’s suburbs and located at one of Canada’s most diverse universities\, AGYU has reinvented itself in order to become responsive to this nuanced cultural context and to make its location a catalyst for artistic risk-taking and institutional innovation. AGYU believes that a contemporary art gallery should serve an aesthetic and social function\, that it must be fluid and flexible and transform itself through reciprocal engagement with artists\, communities\, and the world as it changes. AGYU has an award-winning exhibition\, publishing\, and commissioning program and is known for its long-term\, socially engaged projects that bring together the various streams of its artistic activity. AGYU’s residencies operate in relation to the gallery’s research practice and as a core generator of its artist-centered\, iterative-style of programming. AGYU’s Visiting Curator Series began in 2017. \nMYUNG-SUN KIM is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural programmer. She has led curatorial programming at galleries and festivals including Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival\, Inside Out Film Festival (shorts)\, and The Theatre Centre\, and programs multidisciplinary practices across various media. Her approach to public engagement focuses on intersectionality\, empathetic methodologies\, social processes\, and engaging in civic conversations through meaningful partnerships and collaborations. She recently completed a Fellowship with the Toronto Arts Council’s Leader’s Lab with Banff Centre. Her work as an artist has been presented across North America and in Finland\, including Art Gallery of Ontario\, MOCA Toronto\, FADO Performance Art Centre\, and Plug In ICA. Currently\, she is the Associate Curator of Public Programming & Learning at the Toronto Biennial of Art. \nSHANI K PARSONS is an independent curator and founding director of Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) in Toronto. With degrees in architecture and design she has pursued a transdisciplinary\, research-based practice within independent and institutional contexts and produced an eclectic body of work ranging from intimate artist’s books to immersive exhibitions. Curatorial projects include solo and group exhibitions featuring local and international artists working in all media\, site-responsive interventions and installations in the public sphere\, and thematic moving image programs bringing together eclectic and experimental films\, videos\, animations\, music\, and more. www.anotherbeautifulday.ca \nCRITICAL DISTANCE is a not-for-profit project space\, publisher\, and professional network devoted to the support and advancement of curatorial practice and inquiry in Toronto\, Canada\, and beyond. With a focus on critically engaged\, collaborative\, and cross-disciplinary practices\, underrepresented artists and art forms\, and community outreach and education in art and exhibition-making\, Critical Distance is an open platform for diverse curatorial perspectives\, and a forum for the exchange of ideas on curating and exhibition-making as ways to engage and inform audiences from all walks of life. www.criticaldistance.ca\n… \nACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION\nArtscape Youngplace and Critical Distance are fully accessible by Ontario standards\, with a wheelchair ramp at the 180 Shaw Street doors\, an elevator servicing every floor\, and a fully accessible washroom on every level. The nearby 63 Ossington bus on the TTC is wheelchair accessible.\n… \nTian Zhang would like to acknowledge the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts\, its arts funding and advisory body for support for this project. \nThe Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated public non-profit contemporary art gallery supported by York University\, the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, an Ontario government agency\, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council\, and through our membership.\n… \nimage: Lux Eterna\, Notch by notch the bamboo grows: Tian Zhang\, 2017
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/curating-for-the-future-with-agyu-visiting-curator-tian-zhang/
LOCATION:Small World Music\, 180 Shaw St\, Toronto\, ON\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6J 2W5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Nicole Kelly Westman
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the CDCC gallery for a talk with Calgary-based artist Nicole Kelly Westman. After this event\, visitors are welcome to travel downstairs (or elevator) to Small World Music (Suite 101)\, for a 3 pm talk with Images Festival’s Canadian Spotlight artist KC Wei\, followed by a conversation with journalist and critic Merray Gerges.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/artist-talk-nicole-kelly-westman/
LOCATION:Critical Distance\, Suite 122 at 401 Richmond Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Talks + Panels
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