Research / Conversations
Talking About
What We Talk About When We Talk About History
Artist and writer Sharlene Bamboat responds to What We Talk About When We Talk About History, a screening series curated by Pablo de Ocampo. In this post Bamboat reflects on the ways in which we transmit history.
Enframing an Invisible Violence
Writer and curator Cora Fisher contributes with her thoughts on the Woodstock launch of Invisible Violence, held in conjunction with a conversation with Judy Ditner, Thomas Keenan and Liz Park.
Doing the Difficult Work
Talking About
What We Talk About When We Talk About History
Artist and writer Sharlene Bamboat responds to What We Talk About When We Talk About History, a screening series curated by Pablo de Ocampo. In this post Bamboat reflects the symbolic privilege of power’s gaze.
Curation as Interruption
Sara Matthews, Assistant Professor in Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, responds to a conversation between Gabrielle Moser and Liz Park at the Toronto launch of Invisible Violence.
The Expanded Image
Annie MacDonell’s third year Ryerson photography class came to TPW to engage with Oliver Husain’s mutable exhibition Pandy Ramada’s Bendable Displex. The students were asked to use the exhibition as a way to investigate the possible points of intersection between photography and sculpture.
Slippery Bond
Vancouver-based artist and writer Sean Alward responds to an artist talk by Marianne Nicolson to mark the Vancouver launch of Invisible Violence.
To Nobody
Part Three
Responding to some of the concerns embedded in artist Oliver Husain’s TPW R&D exhibition, Toronto writer, director and artist Alexander Wolfson contributes a series of posts to our growing research archive TPW R&D Online. The writing is conceived as a ongoing dialogue between two nameless figures questioning the boundaries of the accessible/inaccessible in relation to representation itself. The text explores the limits of what is transmitted by an artist to whoever encounters the effects of a work. As the accompanying exhibition progresses, so will the dialogue, emerging from what occurs from within the boundaries of the space.
To Nobody
Part Two
Responding to some of the concerns embedded in artist Oliver Husain’s TPW R&D exhibition, Toronto writer, director and artist Alexander Wolfson contributes a series of posts to our growing research archive TPW R&D Online. The writing is conceived as a ongoing dialogue between two nameless figures questioning the boundaries of the accessible/inaccessible in relation to representation itself. The text explores the limits of what is transmitted by an artist to whoever encounters the effects of a work. As the accompanying exhibition progresses, so will the dialogue, emerging from what occurs from within the boundaries of the space.
Belmore / Gonzales-Day / Granados / Noguchi
To explore the artists’ works and the topic of violence in collaboration rather than in isolation, the curator Liz Park and photo-scholar Judy Ditner engaged in a process of exchange. Seeking to open up each other’s readings, we jointly authored this text to point to some key issues the artists take up, and to offer partial descriptions of and ruminations on the artworks.
