This series of public readings is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Take Care.
Blackwood Gallery is pleased to announce its first Readers-in-Residence program. Adapting the familiar artist’s residency format to one that focuses on practices of reading—reading an exhibition, reading a text, reading as interpretation—each residency will respond to a specific exhibition context and encourage the development of new interpretive possibilities and creative responses to exhibitions and programming.
Facilitated by Danielle St-Amour on behalf of Art Metropole, the residency will host monthly public events with guest readers who are invited to respond directly to the gallery’s programming.
Joshua Vettivelu
Wednesday, September 27, 12–1pm
Alize Zorlutuna
Wednesday, October 25, 12–1pm
Lisa Myers
Wednesday, November 22, 12–1pm
Maggie Groat
Wednesday, January 24, 12–1pm
Yaniya Lee
Wednesday, February 28, 12–1pm
Sep 01, 2017 – Feb 28, 2018
Past
Readers-in-Residence Program
Maggie Groat, Yaniya Lee, Lisa Myers, Joshua Vettivelu, Alize Zorlutuna
Facilitated by Danielle St-Amour
Facilitated by Danielle St-Amour
- Readers-in-Residence
- Maggie Groat
- Yaniya Lee
- Lisa Myers
- Joshua Vettivelu
- Alize Zorlutuna
Maggie Groat is an artist, mother, birthworker, and gardener whose current research surrounds states of becoming, decolonial ways-of-being, how plants and gardens can be portals, slowness, the utility of images, and the transformative potentials of salvaged materials during times of living through climate emergency. Her methodologies are informed by states of being in-between, acts of care, site-specific responsiveness, strategies of collage, and hopeful speculation.
Yaniya Lee's writing and research focus on the ethics of aesthetics. She was a member of the editorial team at Canadian Art magazine from 2017–2021, and now edits at Archive Books. Lee frequently works with collaborators on symposiums and workshops, most recently Ideas From Moving Water (2022); WhAt She SaId: Promiscuous References & Disobedient Care (2021); Song. Prayer. Scream. A praxis of looking (2021), Bodies, Borders, Fields (2019), HOLES AND HOW TO FILL THEM (2019) and Desire x Politics (2019).
Lisa Myers is an independent curator and artist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Myers has an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. Since 2010, she has worked with anthocyanin pigment from blueberries in printmaking, and in her stop-motion animation. Her participatory performances involve sharing berries and other food items in social gatherings, reflecting on the value found in place and displacement; straining and absorbing. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and her writing has been published in a number of exhibition publications in addition to Senses and Society, C Magazine and FUSE. She is an Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Myers is a member of Beausoleil First Nation and she is based in Port Severn and Toronto.
Joshua Vettivelu is an artist working within sculpture, video, performance, and installation. Their work seeks to explore how larger frameworks of power manifest within intimate relationships. Recently, their practice has been examining the tensions that emerge when personal experiences are mined for art production, and how this allows institutions to posture and position themselves as self-reflexive. Vettivelu currently teaches in the Faculty of Continuing Education at OCAD University and is the Director of Programming for Whippersnapper Gallery.
Alize Zorlutuna is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer who works with installation, video, performance, and material culture, to investigate themes concerning identity, queer sexuality, settler-colonial relationships to land, culture, and history, as well as intimacy with the more-than-human and technology. Her work aims to activate interstices where seemingly incommensurate elements intersect. Alize draws on archival as well as practice-based research, and the body and its sensorial capacities are central to her work. She lives and works in Tkaronto.
The 2017-18 Readers-in-Residence program is presented in partnership with Art Metropole. The Blackwood Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the University of Toronto Mississauga.
The Blackwood Gallery is grateful for additional support from the Department of Visual Studies (UTM) and University of Toronto Affinity Partners Manulife, TD Insurance, and MBNA.
Funding for additional staff support was made possible through the Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations program, Department of Canadian Heritage. The Canadian Museums Association administers the program on behalf of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Blackwood Gallery is grateful for additional support from the Department of Visual Studies (UTM) and University of Toronto Affinity Partners Manulife, TD Insurance, and MBNA.
Funding for additional staff support was made possible through the Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations program, Department of Canadian Heritage. The Canadian Museums Association administers the program on behalf of the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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