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Reading Groups at Gallery 44 and Critical Distance Saturday, May 18th, 12-3pm, at Gallery 44 and Saturday, May 25th, 1–3pm at Critical Distance Join 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. Free but please RSVP to coordinator@criticaldistance.ca for more information.Find out more
Live Performance System of a Gesture by Camille Rojas Saturday, May 11th, 1–3pm Free 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.Find out more
Critical Distance
Suite 122 at 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
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.Find out more