ART MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Otherworld

Camille Turner

September 4, 2024 - March 22, 2025
Curated by Barbara Fischer

The newly commissioned exhibition, Otherworld, immerses the visitor in a non-linear Afro-Astronautic journey transcending space-time boundaries. Recognizing historical silences as both information and direction, Camille Turner’s Afronautic research methodology takes the visitor deep into the archive, uncovering the traces and legacies of enslavement that extend from named enclaves of urban wealth in Toronto to the shipbuilding industry in Newfoundland. Filled with personal recollections and stories of immeasurable loss, the exhibition walks us back to the portals of departure and arrival of those forcibly taken from the shores of West Africa and dispersed throughout the Americas, and those lost in the passage between. Camille Turner’s work takes its inspiration from Afrofuturism; looping in and around time, it offers places of recovery and dreams of a liberated future. On their journey, the visitor is invited to listen to stories contained in the geologic time of displaced rocks and sea-worn sticks resembling bones, finding there the potential of changing history and, powered by the imagination, to make worlds otherwise.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MISSISSAUGA

The Whole World in Our Hands

Yuki Iiyama, Mikhail Karikis, Darrin Martin, Abi Palmer, the vacuum cleaner and collaborators

September 3, 2024–January 7, 2025
Curated by Jacqui Usiskin

The Whole World in Our Hands is an invitation to break apart, remodel, and act out new grammars of empathy and togetherness. Composed of a series of artworks made by, for, and with disabled artists and collaborators, this program asks: How does the presence of blindness, deafness, illness, and neurodiversity nurture a language that is sensed rather than spoken? What are the syntaxes of touch, smell, sound, and movement? With the understanding that everyone plays a role in how disability is experienced, The Whole World in Our Hands embraces our shared responsibility for making livable worlds for all.

Exploring the corporeal possibilities of communication, The Whole World in Our Hands considers the voice as elastic, textured, and embodied, a muscle that can reach beyond the verbal and audible to reconceive what it means to listen and to be heard.

Visit the The Whole World in Our Hands webpage on the Blackwood website and the Art Museum website for full program descriptions and artist bios.

Accessibility notes: While all stops on the tour are accessible and free of physical barriers, we regret that the shuttle bus is not accessible.

The Whole World in Our Hands tour will begin at the e|gallery, which is a physically accessible space. The e|gallery is located on the ground floor of the CCT building, accessible via the east entrance (adjacent to parking lot 9) at ground level, or by elevator from the main floor entrance and at parking garage levels 1, 3, and 5. Accessible multi-user gendered washrooms are located at ground level, and accessible multi-user all-gender washrooms are located on the third floor of the CCT Building.

Some movement throughout the campus will be required—ramps and curb cuts are in place. Please note part of the tour will be in an unpaved area a short distance from a paved walking trail. Its surface is hard-packed mulch. For more details, download a printable map of The Whole World in Our Hands exhibition site.

If you have questions about accessibility or have specific access needs, please contact a Blackwood Gallery staff member at [email protected] or 905-828-3789.