Making Treaty 7: Finding Common Ground
July 31 - October 22, 2017
Project Space
July 31 – September 10, 2017
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Jason de Haan: Oh for eyes! At night we dream of eyes!
May 28 - August 27, 2017
Calgary-based artist Jason de Haan has developed an interest in proposing and undertaking projects in which particular environments, natural conditions, and massive time scales complete, animate, and determine his multidisciplinary practice. The work most clearly deals with fleetingness,…
Anton Vidokle: The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun
May 28 - August 27, 2017
The second film of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism looks at the poetic dimension of solar cosmology of Soviet biophysicist, Alexander Chizhevsky. Shot in Kazakhstan, where Chizhevsky was imprisoned and later exiled, the film introduces Сhizhevsky’s research into the impact of solar…
Laura Dutton: Night Comes On
May 1 - July 23, 2017
Project Space
‘Night Comes On’ is a video installation comprised of sixty 8” LED screens housed in and among ninety-nine black wooden boxes. Each screen contains a looping video depicting human activity within a domestic window frame, as seen from the exterior of a building. The source footage used for this…
Jude Griebel: Estranged Setting
January 30 - April 23, 2017
Project Space
Estranged Setting presents two sculptures in an immersive painted environment. The works, Bird Factory (2016) and Trawl (2015), depict shifting anatomies that embody the complexities of contemporary consumption, industrial fishing, and agriculture. In Bird Factory, poultry populate a structure whose…
Earthlings
January 21 - May 7, 2017
Roger Aksadjuak, Shuvinai Ashoona, Pierre Aupilardjuk, Shary Boyle, Jessie Kenalogak, John Kurok, and Leo Napayok
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Sans façon: Jasmine from Grasse
October 31, 2016 - January 22, 2017
Project Space
Our relationship to place is a strange one: why is it that a feeling or memory about a particular place or time can be more vivid than others? How do significant, and seemingly insignificant, moments lodge within our sense of self? Is it possible that a certain place or experience, no matter how…
Cedric Bomford & Jim Bomford: The Traveller
September 17 - December 18, 2016
Like the vernacular and provisional architectural expressions found in resource camps, or in the initial building stages of both urban and rural communities referenced in previous work by Cedric Bomford, this project takes early settler infrastructure as its foundation, in particular the eccentric…
Jasmina Cibic: Tear Down and Rebuild
September 17 - December 18, 2016
Working between London and Ljubljana, Jasmina Cibic is among a new generation of Slovenian artists whose practice, although acutely conscious of a specific national political, cultural, and artistic lineage, creates a very distinctive language of its own. Cibic’s films, sculptures, and…
Larissa Fassler: CIVIC. CENTRE.
September 17 - December 18, 2016
For Larissa Fassler, observing, describing, and naming are strategies to make different realities visible, an approach she believes leads to a deeper understanding of a place, or that counters assumptions, blindness, or even refusals to see reality. For the past ten years, Fassler has been making…