ARTIST TALKS AND PERFORMANCES
Performances and talks by artists related to gallery exhibitions and lectures. Where possible we’ll be adding links to video documentation.
2023
ARTIST TALK
Suzie Smith and Alexis Dirks
8 February
Exhibition: I saw the way you speak
2022
ARTIST TALK
Hannah Doucet
16 September
Exhibition: A Wish Stays With You
2021
IN CONVERSATION
Alexis L. Grise, Katrina Marie Mendoza, Hanna Reimer, Tobin Rowland and Chukwudubem Ukaigwe (audio) (transcription)
02 December
Exhibition: Traces
2020
IN CONVERSATION
Jeneen Frei Njootli & Niki Little
24 September
Exhibition: small mounds of flesh form
PERFORMANCE
Colby Richardson (video)
01 & 04 June
Exhibition: Performance for aging Apple devices
ARTIST TALK
Sarah Fuller (video)
31 May
Exhibition: Terra Incogknita
PERFORMANCE
Bret Parenteau (video)
13 May
Exhibition:Suddenly, no, at long last
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Rhayne Vermette
25 March
Exhibition: True Stories
2019
ARTIST TALK
Karen Kraven
08 November
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Irene Bindi
The history of projection practices and how these changes have shifted it’s perception.
30 September
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Colby Richardson
Experimentation, embracing limitation, and ‘medium-specificity’ within unusual forms of image making.
08 July
ARTIST TALK
Luis Jacob (video)
31 May
Exhibition: The View from Here
ARTIST TALK
Chantel Mierau (video)
15 May
Exhibition: Three Chores
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Mariana Muñoz Gomez
Exhibition: Recorrer, to wander
08 April
2018
PERFORMANCE
Jeanne Randolph
A new extemporization by Jeanne Randolph (MB) titled Prairie Modernist Noir: The Disappearance of the Manitoba Telephone Booth.
15 October
EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH
Lisa Lipton
22 September
Exhibition: Excerpts from The Impossible Blue Rose
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Lori Blondeau
For her lecture, Blondeau spoke about her interdisciplinary practice that includes both performance and photography.
17 September
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Gabi Dao
For her lecture, Gabi Dao conflated thematics of the Vietnam War in Hollywood cinema, domestic labour, the working subject, intentional invisibility and the here nor there of diasporic experience complicated by the omnipresence of digital material.
18 June
PERFORMANCE
Bridget Moser
20 June
Documentation: Am I Being Hypnotized by an Inground Swimming Pool
ARTIST TALK
Bridget Moser
26 May
Exhibition: If You Have a Similar Story Keep it to Yourself
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Hannah Doucet
Doucet discussed illness, futile acts of resistance to sickness, persisting bodily and representational anxieties, and materiality and failure within photographic representation. Much of this research related to her exhibition, I wondered when my body would deflate.
07 May
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Denton Fredrickson
Fredrickson spoke about distraction, automatons, and the Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement Industry in relation to research performed during a recent series of art residencies.
26 February
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Sébastien Aubin
Aubin gave a talk/performance on how his graphic design practice affects his art practice, and how the land seems to be calling him back.
29 January
ARTIST TALK
Jillian McDonald (video)
06 January
Exhibition: Something Wicked (This Way Comes)
2017
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
sophia bartholomew
Interdisciplinary artist bartholomew spoke about image-making they undertook in conversation with their maternal grandmother.
27 November
ARTIST TALK
Rebecca Belmore
09 September
Exhibition: At Pelican Falls
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Duke & Battersby
Duke and Battersby spoke about their shifting techniques for conceptualizing, writing, shooting and editing their work.
31 July
ARTIST TALK
Alvin Luong
26 May
Exhibition: Soft and Precious
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Desearch Repartment
06 February
ARTIST TALK
Maegan Hill-Carroll
07 January
Exhibition: Green Puce
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Letch Kinloch: BOOK-ISH-NESS
23 January
2016
IN CONVERSATION
Duane Linklater & Jenny Western (video)
23 September
Exhibition: Modest Livelihood
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Freya Olafson
19 September
ARTIST TALK
Annie MacDonell (video)
28 May
Exhibition: The Time Travellers
ARTIST TALK
Sarah Crawley & Mandy Malazdrewich
14 May
Exhibition: The Time Travellers
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Jamie Isaac
18 April
ARTIST TALK
Risa Horowitz
30 January
Exhibition: Imaging Saturn (Modeling Views)
ACTIVE RESEARCH LECTURE
Glen Johnson
25 January