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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:WHO ARE WE WRITING FOR? A Workshop with Amy Fung for BIPOC Writers
DESCRIPTION:WHO ARE WE WRITING FOR? \nA Creative + Critical Art Writing Workshop with Amy Fung in gallery at Critical Distance. \nSession 1: Sunday\, July 7th\, 2019 from 5-8 pm.\nSession 2: Wednesday\, July 10th\, 2019 from 5:30–8:30 pm. \nGeared for racialized arts writers and those thinking and writing about their place in the world. We will write through and alongside the things that move us (forward) and hold us (back). \nThis workshop will be facilitated by Amy Fung. She is a writer who has been writing and publishing on art and other things since 2002. Before I Was a Critic I was a Human Being (Bookhug and Artspeak) is her first book. \nNo laptops allowed. Please bring paper and pen only. Note: We will be writing and then sharing. No one expects it to be good. \nWorkshop is PWYC and limited to 12 participants so please RSVP to rsvp@criticaldistance.ca to complete your registration. PDFs for discussion will be sent out to registered participants one week prior to the workshop. Free childcare is available so do request this if it would allow you to participate.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/who-are-we-writing-for-a-workshop-with-amy-fung-for-bipoc-writers/
LOCATION:Critical Distance\, Suite 122 at 401 Richmond Street West\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5V 3A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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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:Reading Groups at Gallery 44 and Critical Distance
DESCRIPTION:Reading Groups at Gallery 44 and Critical Distance\nSaturday\, May 18th\, 12-3pm\, at Gallery 44 and Saturday\, May 25th\, 1–3pm at Critical Distance\nJoin curators Gabrielle Moser and Liz Ikiriko in a conversation about the gestures artists and researchers use to activate the photographic archive. Reading out loud from performance studies scholar Diana Taylor’s book\, The Archive and the Repertoire (2003)\, and photography theorist Tina M. Campt’s book\, Image Matters (2012)\, the group will meet across both gallery spaces to consider the “archival choreographies” deployed by artists to develop alternate histories from private and public collections. \nFree but please RSVP to coordinator@criticaldistance.ca for more information.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/reading-groups-at-gallery-44-and-critical-distance/
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SUMMARY:Live Performance: System of a Gesture by Camille Rojas
DESCRIPTION:Live Performance\nSystem of a Gesture by Camille Rojas\nSaturday\, May 11th\, 1–3pm\nFree public premiere of System of a Gesture\, choreographed by Camille Rojas\, as part of the group exhibition An Archive\, But Not An Atlas. Performance will take place outside Artscape Youngplace; in case of rain\, an alternate location will be announced closer to the date.
URL:https://criticaldistance.ca/event/system-of-a-gesture-camille-rojas/
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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
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