Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2010 Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2011 Co-curated with Jan Allen Information-gathering systems increasingly affect our lives, tracking our movement and consumer preferences. Such “sorting daemons” reinforce existing streams of influence and quietly create new ones. The artists in this exhibition take measure of our relationship to surveillance by addressing its social, […]
I’m Not Myself At All: Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell
José Esteban MuñozAgnes Etherington Art Centre, 2015 Exploring the concept of queer futurity, this exhibition marked the first major exhibition of collaborative work by Toronto-based artists Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue. An exuberant revision of sexual identity and domesticity, I’m Not Myself At All featured new video, uncanny oversized soft-sculpture dolls, wallpaper, crochet spider webs, needlepoint, drawings, […]
Conversation Pieces
Etherington House, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 2008 Conversation Pieces presented new media works exploring acts of communication. United by their basis in forms of conversation found in daily social interaction, the works relate to both private and public spheres of life. By critically manipulating verbal communication, the art lays bare the ways in which we […]
From Remote Stars
Museum London, March 5 to May 15, 2022Co-curated with Kirsty Robertson Project Website | Podcast | Instagram | Twitter In 1968, futurist, systems theorist, and architect R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) visited London, Ontario. Then at the height of his global fame, Fuller was best known for patenting the design for geodesic domes, as well as for his […]